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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Safety Notice
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your TRUCKER
Connecting to TomTom services
- About TomTom services
- Always connected devices
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Other buttons
- Volume control
- Using gestures
- Changing the text and button size
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Traffic
- About TomTom Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- The route bar
- Looking at traffic on the map
- Looking at traffic on your route
- Traffic incidents
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Setting your vehicle type
- About My Vehicle
- Setting your vehicle type
- Planning a route for a Bus or Truck
- Viewing route restrictions
Syncing TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to your MyDrive account
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list
- Deleting a community POI list
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
Using Quick Search
- About search
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- About mapcodes
- List of POI type icons
Planning a route
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- 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
- Finding an alternative route
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
Changing your route
- The Current Route Menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Types of route
- Route features
- 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
- Reordering stops on a route
My Routes
- About My Routes
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Deleting a route from My Routes
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
Map Share
- About Map Share
- Creating a map correction report
- Creating a map correction report from a marked location
- Types of map correction
Speed Cameras
- About speed cameras
- Crossing into another area or country
- Speed camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a new speed camera
- Confirm or remove a mobile speed camera
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Danger Zones
- About danger zones and risk zones
- Crossing into another area or country
- Danger zone and risk zone warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a risk zone
- Updating locations for danger zones and risk zones
My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home and work locations
- 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
Settings
- My Vehicle
- Appearance
- Voices
- Voice Control
- Maps
- Route Planning
- Sounds and Warnings
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Updating using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- MyTomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

My Vehicle

Important: Route planning for a specific vehicle type is available only when a truck map is installed.

If a truck map is not installed, a car route is planned instead.

Select Settings in the Main Menu, then select My Vehicle.

On this screen, you can set your vehicle type and dimensions.

Routes planned by your device avoid restrictions for the vehicle type, and take into account the

vehicle's specifications.

 Vehicle Type

Select this setting to choose your vehicle type. When you select your vehicle, the following

details for your vehicle are shown:

 Length / Width / Height

 Weight / Max. axle weight

 Maximum speed

For vehicle types Car, Taxi, Van and Other, the dimensions, weights and maximum speed are set

to zero. To change a setting, select it and enter a value that is specific to your vehicle. You can

also leave a setting at zero so it will not be used to determine restrictions when a route is

planned.

For vehicle types Bus and Truck, pre-set dimensions, weights and maximum speed are shown. To

change a setting, select it and enter a value that is specific to your vehicle.

Important: Settings that are set at zero are not used to determine restrictions when a route is

planned.

 HAZMAT

If your vehicle type is Truck and you are transporting hazardous materials, select this setting to

choose the type of hazardous material.

Appearance

Select Settings in the Main Menu, then select Appearance.

On this screen, you can change these settings:

 Display

Select Display to change the appearance of the display.

 Route bar

Settings