User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Get going
- TomTom services
- Connecting a smartphone
- Wi-Fi connection
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Setting your vehicle type
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search
- Planning a route using quick search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step by step search
- Planning a route using step by step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step by step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
- My Routes
- About My Routes
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
- Voice control (Speak&Go)
- About voice control
- Starting voice control
- Making your own wake-up phrase
- The voice control screen
- Some tips for using voice control
- What you can use voice control for
- Saying commands in different ways
- Entering an address using voice control
- Going to home using voice control
- Going to a POI using voice control
- Changing a setting using voice control
- Talking to Siri or Google Now™
- Map Share
- Speed Cameras
- Danger Zones
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- Changing your home location
- Adding a location from My Places
- Add a location to My Places from the map
- Adding a location to My Places using search
- Adding a location to My Places by marking
- Deleting a recent destination from My Places
- Deleting a location from My Places
- Using community POI lists
- Hands-free calling
- About hands-free calling
- Volume control for hands-free calling
- Accepting an incoming call
- Ending or rejecting an incoming call
- Ignoring an incoming call
- Making a hands-free call
- Making a hands-free call using your contact book
- Replying by SMS to a call
- Receiving an SMS or IM
- Switching off messages
- Talking to Siri or Google Now™
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Using MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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2. Select Vehicle Type then select your vehicle type from the list shown.
3. Read the Your Safety information then select OK.
4. The My Vehicle screen is shown with the settings for the selected vehicle type.
Select each setting and enter the correct value for your vehicle type. If a setting will not be a route
restriction, for example Maximum Speed, set it to zero.
Tip: For Bus and Truck vehicle types, the dimensions, weight and maximum speed are pre-set.
Adjust the settings to match your vehicle's actual specifications.
Important: Settings that are set at zero are not used to determine restrictions when a route is
planned.
5. If your vehicle is a Truck transporting hazardous materials, select HAZMAT then select the type of
hazardous material being transported.
6. Return to the map view and plan a route.
A route is planned that avoids route restrictions applicable to your vehicle.
You can find an alternative route or change the route type for all types of vehicles, taking into account
the vehicle's specific settings.
Planning a route for a Bus or Truck
When you plan a route on your device or plan a route using MyDrive and you have a Bus or Truck as
your vehicle type, you are shown the My Vehicle screen before your route is calculated. Check that
your vehicle's settings are correct then select the continue button:
A route is planned and guidance to your destination begins. As soon as you start driving, the guidance
view is shown automatically.