TomTom Truck Sat Nav GO Professional 520 with European Maps and Traffic Services (via Smartphone) Updates via WI-FI, Designed for Truck, Coach, Bus and Large Vehicles
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 GO Professional 520 | GO Professional 620 |  GO Expert 5″ | GO Expert 6″ or 7″ | |
| TomTom Traffic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Speed Cam Alerts | Yes | Yes | 1 Year Trial | 1 Year Trial |
| TomTom Map Coverage | Europe – 47 countries | Europe – 47 countries | World – 183 countries | World – 183 countries |
| TomTom map updates via WiFi | Yes | Yes | Yes (3x faster) | Yes (3x faster) |
| Map updates availability | Quarterly | Quarterly | Weekly | Weekly |
| Live restriction warnings | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| UN Class Restrictions | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Display | 5″ Capacitive display | 6″ Capacitive display | 5″ Capacitive display | 6″ & 7″ HD display |
| Responsiveness | 0,5 GB RAM | 0,5 GB RAM | 2 GB RAM (4x faster) | 2 GB RAM (4x faster) |
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| Dimensions: | 9.1 x 14.2 x 1.9 cm; 200 Grams |
| Model: | L133831 |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included) |
| Manufacture: | TomTom |
| Dimensions: | 9.1 x 14.2 x 1.9 cm; 200 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
Easy to use and saves a lot of hassle that a certain map app beginning with G tends to cause.
It’s not perfect so you still need to pay attention as roads change and it might attempt to send you down a restriction.
It can’t seem to find a lot of places by name but will get you in the vicinity by postcode.
The map interface and voice instructions are clear and easy to understand.
At the sale price of 200 quid-ish this seems to be the best value sat-nav available.
For under 300 it really ain’t that bad.
Never had a tom tom so thought give it a try only had it a month but so far so good.
Fantastic, used it for the first time last night, it got me there, and shows weight limits.
Bit expensive but the monthly option is good. Holds charge.
5 stars as does the job
I am overall happy with this product but was disappointed when setting it up that I have to pay an addition subscription for the traffic updates for my chosen route.
The free Map updating is good.
I needed a sat nav for work (truck driver) and I was recommended this.
I have been using it a little while now and I have to say it’s really worth the money. Connect it to your phone through Bluetooth and it will give you traffic updates etc. Aslong as you use your eyes on the road you will not have any issues.
(I say use your eyes cause only once it sent me down a road with a weak bridge, but I saw the signed and turned back)
Lovely size screen and does everything I want it to do
Works well but a little slow. Screen is good quality as is the unit, its quite accurate but not as updates as google maps. I deliver to building sites which are new roads and new estates etc. Roughly 6-7 timea per week it doesnt recognise postcode or street name so i still have to use google maps quite often. It at least once per week takes me over weak bridges and down roads i shouldnt be on. Its ok is all ill say.
A name you (should) be able to trust where navigation is concerned.
Sadly, this truckers sat nav ships with out-of-date maps & needs money to be spent on updating it.
The touch screen is OK, but other makers have now surpassed it.
I spent the money on the updates as this was a gift for me from my wife, but given a choice, there are better units out there than Tom Tom.
Absolutely worth its weight in gold for trucking. Won’t let you go under bridges also sends you on safe detours when traffic or road incidents are ahead
Works as it should but maps are outdated out of the box. Real shame no case was included for 260 quid bit it keeps me safe and on the right routes for artic lorries.
This is brilliant and so easy to use. Gets me from A to B
Been using my new TomTom for a week or so and find it pretty good.
Easy to use, and as an HGV driver it keeps me away from low bridges, weight restrictions etc. It can be a little over cautious though, preferring motorways and dual carriageways to B roads. I use it in conjunction with Google maps on our work device and with the two I have no problems. I like the instructions it gives. For instance, it’ll say take the slip road in a quarter of a mile, then at the roundabout take the 3rd exit. Google maps won’t tell you till you’re at the roundabout, which in a truck is too late. Very pleased with it overall.
Tested, all seems easy to use. Like saved places functio
The most easiest HGV sat nav to use.
Enter the postcode, the height width and weight of the lorry then your on the way.
The only downside of Tom Tom is the maps are wrong in some cases, an example is the A2 going into London just before the Woolwich turn, the nav says not suitable for artics, this is a main artery road not a 7.5tonne road. No doubt Tom Tom Will update this. There again what nav is perfec
Sat nav works just fine. So faar avoided all bridges. The only problem I have is connectin to my home wifi. But I used to have problem conectin other devices so I think the problem is on router side. Mobile wifi hotspot conected no problem.
This on my horsebox it is really important to me I don’t get sent down roads are not suitable to my 12T Horsebox .
I’m really happy with this satnav so far I 100% recommend it. The screen is clear and I like the app on my phone
Bought this for work as I was hgv and travelling through Europe. Wanted a sat nav I could update and was reliable. Struck gold goof bit of kit. Never missed a beat and was a godsend got me to my exact destination without a problem avoiding all obstacles encountered with hgv driving.
I haven’t got lost or sent me down weight limits and is great when you take your device home it automatically downloads updates which is top dollar, It even updates the maps very quickly by putting in the new roads which have only just opened, Great piece of kit to have
I have been using this TomTom model for about a month now, it’s ideal for the type of work I do (artic truck) It has on a couple of occasions directed me down a dubious route, but as someone has already pointed out, a bit of thought needs to be used, before entering certain roads. The satnav isn’t something to blindly follow, have a quick look at the route, if it looks a bit iffy, select alternative route and the satnav works it out for you, simples.
It’s easy to use and I would definitely recommend it.
I did have an issue regarding my lifetime traffic, which had expired, but a live chat with TomTom on line had the problem resolved within 10 mins.
I’ve used this device for a couple of months now and it does a decent job in routing/re-routing. However there are a few annoyances which, if I’d known about before I would have thought twice about spending so much on the device.
Firstly, inputting things on the screen is VERY slow – touch the ‘search’ icon and there’s a 3-4 second delay before it responds. Slightly shorted delays for inputting data but still annoying.
Secondly, important things on the screen are quite small – the right-hand section needs to be quite close to the viewer to make sense, which for a ‘professional’ device is a real ‘no-no’, VOSA do not like drivers to be that distracted.
Thirdly, there’s no easy option to set group parameters (Garmin allows you to choose all-in unit/trailer sizes rather than having to re-input individual trailer heights before each leg or a trip).
Another issue I’ve found, after a bit more use, is that this device is lacking the option to use motorways in preference to minor roads – with an LGV this is often essential and other devices seems to have this facility.
There are a few other annoyances that I can put up with, as with any device, but as always, I suspect this has been designed by someone who has not used it in real life.
I’ve used this device for a couple of months now and it does a decent job in routing/re-routing. However there are a few annoyances which, if I’d known about before I would have thought twice about spending so much on the device.
Firstly, inputting things on the screen is VERY slow – touch the ‘search’ icon and there’s a 3-4 second delay before it responds. Slightly shorted delays for inputting data but still annoying.
Secondly, important things on the screen are quite small – the right-hand section needs to be quite close to the viewer to make sense, which for a ‘professional’ device is a real ‘no-no’, VOSA do not like drivers to be that distracted.
Thirdly, there’s no easy option to set group parameters (Garmin allows you to choose all-in unit/trailer sizes rather than having to re-input individual trailer heights before each leg or a trip).
Another issue I’ve found, after a bit more use, is that this device is lacking the option to use motorways in preference to minor roads – with an LGV this is often essential and other devices seems to have this facility.
There are a few other annoyances that I can put up with, as with any device, but as always, I suspect this has been designed by someone who has not used it in real life.
Used a Snooper S7000 for 8 years, never really happy with the ‘live’ TMC. It’s screen failed when I went to change the brightness, Snooper wanted 30 up front to inspect and another 30 + parts and labour to repair if it could. They also suggested that it was at the end of it’s life and perhaps buying a S6900 would be better. For a couple of weeks I used the inbuilt DAF satnav, which I rapidly discovered was a danger to my licence – roads unsuitable for hgv were regularly recommended. During this time Snooper stopped promoting the S6900!! So why try to sell me one. So after being cheated out of the life time map updates and continually paying monies for traffic camera updates, being left aghast that the major roadworks on the A15 at Lincoln, where not being advised, left me with the impression that Snooper had a culture of ripping off anyone and everyone. Never again. Hmmm why did Lymm stop supporting them.
So I had used a TomTom 6200, supplied by the company I work for, for approx. 6 months over a year ago. The live update was actually live. The operating system took a while to get used to but it was a good experience.
Updating to the 6250 was a no brainer. Really. 8 years too late.
Still early days, but one gripe. Only one profile. If you change trailer size, you have to amend the one and only one profile size(s), dimensions, and not just swap to another profile. But on the other hand it makes you check and add the correct dims. Other than that all good and a very happy trucker.
The Wifi hotspot from your phone to update maps and get live traffic is the best feature! Driving loads during the night, I’m quite pleased to have avoided a lot of Motorway closures due to the “Live Traffic” as well as the occasional accident too!
A complaint however is the fact that when you ask for a route but a parameter of your truck is unsuitable, it’ll give you a banner which say it but still plans the route. Doesn’t tell you what the issue could be. If you miss the banner, you could be heading towards a Low Bridge without knowing it.
Slows down. Often trying to quickly change something, the nav will just become very slow and unresponsive. This is much worse if its hot. Try avoid putting the device in your windshield as the device will get very hot and just switch off. But considering there isn’t many other places to put it. This becomes problematic.
I bought this for work as I drive artics for a living, I have had to use it now on a couple of occasions with road closures etc.
It was excellent, the old saying, you get what you pay for is definitely the case here, this is a quality unit and I would definitely recommend it, easy to use as well, really well thought out operating system, but that’s always the case with Tom Tom.
Also this unit can be set to different vehicle types
HGV
Coach or bus
Van
Car
As such it calculates your arrival time correspondingly to the vehicle it is set for & the suitability of the route taken, dependant on the vehicle in which it is set to navigate.
So if you’re on the fence as to whether to buy this unit, just go ahead and buy it, you won’t regret it.
Generally this tomtom 6250 is very good. It has brought me off a slip road only to get me straight back on again a couple of times, but no major mishaps. The mapping is very accurate normally and it does instil a sense of confidence.
The live traffic updates are a really good, the time and inconvenience they save is fantastic. Another plus is updating the maps etc over wifi, it is so easy.
Would I buy one again? Yes definitely.
One downside is you don’t get a protective case with your purchase. Tight bastards!
I wanted to reward myself for passing my artic test on the first attempt, so I waited until Black Friday and bought the TomTom when it was just over 200. It was a bit of a shock going down to a smaller screen size, but it was nice that it acts as a hands-free for my mobile phone. It also gives you the option for it to read out text messages as they are received on your phone.
I also like the fact that it tries to guess where you might be going next. So, for example, I regularly do trailer swaps where I take an empty trailer anywhere around the UK, then always take the full trailer that I have collected back to our customer in Kettering. So it often asks me ‘Are you going back to Kettering?’ and gives a YES button and a NO button. Nice touch.
What isn’t so nice is that it randomly decides to turn itself off and back on again whilst I am driving, probably once a day or maybe every other day. Bit disconcerting. Not what you would expect from a 270 device. The map updates work better with the TomTom than with the Hieha. I update it by connecting it to my PC at home, same as the Hieha, but it’s nice that the TomTom device tells you when there are new updates available, in the main menu. Updates seem to appear roughly once a month, whereas Hieha didn’t update their UK map for about two years. Pity that there don’t seem to be any silly voices available on TomTom, like the crazy squirrel voice that I used to have in my Garmin satnav.
Another thing that can be a bit frustrating is the small buttons that it puts up on the screen, such as the YES and NO choices mentioned earlier, or when you have an incoming call and it gives you a button in the bottom right corner to accept the call, or you want it to read out an incoming text message. In a truck your device tends to be quite a long way away from you, quite a long reach, because a truck cab is much bigger than the area where the driver sits in a car. It’s a small screen anyway (compared to my Hieha) and you have a very small button, and it’s easy to jab at a button and hit somewhere else on the coloured bar. When that happens, the whole bar disappears! So they need to move the YES and NO buttons a bit further apart, then allow you to touch somewhere in the general area of a button to activate it.
You set up the options how you want them so, as an example, I set my satnav never to use toll roads. With the Hieha this would mean that it would never, ever send me over the Dartford crossing, which is a toll crossing. TomTom have a much more practical solution. It will send you over the Dartford crossing, but when it has calculated the route it will flash a warning across the top of the screen, telling you that part of the route doesn’t meet your preferred options. It would be better if that warning stayed up a bit longer. It would also be nice if there was a bigger button to click if you wanted more info, instead of the tiny line of text that you can click on now.
Another thing that takes a bit of getting used to is it working as a hands free unit for your phone. Obviously that’s great when you’re driving, but can be a bit of a pain in the backside if you’re out of the truck but have left the ignition on. If someone rings you and you swipe the phone to accept the call, or you ring someone from outside the truck, the satnav will promptly ‘hijack’ the call, meaning that you can’t hear them and they can’t hear you (until you climb back into the cab). I have always left the ignition on in the past when leaving the truck, mainly so that I can obtain an instant response from my tachograph (by pressing the down button) of how long I have been waiting or been on other work, or on break. Now I have to try to get into the habit of leaving the ignition off when I’m not in the vehicle.
So although this product is good, it definitely could still be improved further. I would probably be willing to pay about 200 for one, but no more. So I agree with the other reviewer who said that this TomTom product is currently priced at about 75 more than it should be.
I have had this for around a month now,its much better than the snooper in my opinion,the traffic and times are much more accurate,the screen when you press it is a little slow to respond but does work,its great that I can update from my phones internet rather than having to take it home and do it like the snooper,it hasn’t taken me wrong as of yet but sometimes coz of the weight restrictions it seems like it’s taking you the wrong way but it’s not,as long as you use common sense I reccomend this to any hgv driver.
Bought this after passing my class 2 hgv and so far hasn’t steered me wrong. Does have a habit sometimes of taking you the long way round but I haven’t encountered a low bridge or width restriction using this so that’s the main point for me. It takes a while to boot up and doesn’t work in a particular hurry but I still regard it as money well spent and the fact that Amazon spread the cost over 5 payments was a win all the way.
Has its little hiccups, used everyday for my job for the last year and let me down twice by turning off and won’t turn on until u charge direct to the unit ( can take 30 minutes at least ) will take through weight limits if it’s a timed limit … maybe a upgrade to sort that … other than that it’s brilliant!! Still the best I’ve bought and would still buy again , love how it’s wifi so update takes minutes…
I’m gonna tell you what this nav is the best on the market by far on. If you are a night trunker like me then get it. Sure it alot more than just a cheap one but the traffic and roadworks and closures update is about 85 percent accurate. When highways ‘anythings possible’ England closes a road this nav will pick it up and reroute you. Use that alongside your brain and you will never go wrong. The screen is not slow is average. Its usability is honestly great.
What this nav is not good for: look if you are doing multi drop. There is no satnav in the world which will be good for you. Brain power goes up over the nav. You cant complain about that. That’s the job that you do.
This Nav is one of the best and worth the high price.
can’t fault the maps, but the operating system for the sat nav on a whole is poor. Its honestly like trying to use a mobile phone in 2001. freezing etc.
The voice recognition is a joke. hardly ever works and when it does the sat nav starts to freeze.
For the price they are charging for this it really needs to have a more up to date operating system.
It’s a TomTom and so does a pretty good job as a navigator. All of the issues that TomTom devices have are still present as they still haven’t addressed any of them. Road speed limits still never get altered despite notifying them. Junction countdowns are still measured from the end of the slip road and not from the start. You still get told to exit onto the road that you are leaving and not onto the road that you are joining occasionally.
Basically if you don’t like TomTom devices there is nothing about this device to change your views. It’s a TomTom with all of their idiosyncrasies still in place.
Only problem I’ve found on this is being a truck driver we work in tons and feet? And this only lets you put it in pounds and meters ? You can change this in setting’s but only get one or the other ? ie tons and meters or feet and pounds ? Which does not help being over in UK ? Plus always sends you long way even thou you know you can cut most of that out your self? Could not live with out it thou.
I previously used the Pro truck 7150 which was also exceptional and reliable , however I was slight annoyed with Tom Tom as a company when they expired it’s use after only 4 years, bang out of order !
I’m a retired pilot and was an early adopter of GPS. I’ve had nearly everything. This is an absolutely great piece of gear. I now drive truck part time and it’s never sent me down a weight limited road, low bridge etc. Leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
It’s expensive but worth every single penny you pay.It allows you to put in the dimensions of your truck and will find the best routes for you.You can forget about paying for updates,on maps,Live traffic updates,Camera updates.The MOST important feature of this satnav is that it has a built in sim,which means Tomtom take care of everything!! Including the data for the Live traffic updates every 2 mins.You do not have to rely on your phone anymore or worry about your data.Tomtom will support it for the lifetime of the product.You still can connect your phone to it via Bluetooth and it’s fully compatible with Siri on the iPhone and the equivalent on android phone.Once connected you can ring and receive calls hands free!You can also ask it to read out your txt messages.The voice is well loud on the satnav so you do not have to worry.The satnav itself has voice recognition so you can say “Hello tomtom” then ask it to adjust volumes or other things.If you do connect your phone you will have to turn the volume up on the phone to get the benefit of loud voice through the speakers of the satnav otherwise it will be low.The fact that you do not even need a PC to set it up or update is a plus.It does all that via wifi.So you have to turn it on occasionally when you are at home connected to the wifi and it automatically brings up updates and all you have to do is click update.If updates are small you can get away with just using the charge on it.If not you have to plug it to a power source any pc USB.I cannot fault it after using it for a whole month.oh and you can use it in car mode as well.Also this satnav rotates so quickly on roundabouts that you know exactly which exit to take.So there you have it.Go get yourself one.