Garmin 010-01457-10 6 Inch DezlCam Truck Satellite Navigation with Built-In Dash Cam, UK and Full Europe Maps, Black

This review is after almost 2 years of use in the UK. Firstly it's great having a built in dash cam and that this sat-nav acts as a hands free for my phone. The build is solid but all plastic and for this money I would have expected some metal. The unit has been totally reliable barring one issue after an update that I contacted Garmin customer care about and it was sorted. I also like being able to back up all my favourites to my PC which can be uploaded onto any other Garmin unit.I have deicided to review Garmin's firmware separately as it relates to ALL their truck dashcams presently on the market. When I first bought this unit I was driving mostly motorway miles in articulated trucks and thought the firmware was faultless. It never took me on a route that I couldn't easily pass through and negotiated all restrictions with ease.I then changed to driving a rigid, 3 axle fuel tanker in the Cumbria area and everything changed. When you are negotiating small country lanes Garmin firmware has some major problems. Firstly it sees all restrictions as total restrictions and doesn't take "Except for Access" roads into account. This can lead to the journey taking much longer than necessary as it routes you to the far side of a town to avoid a restriction that you could've legally ignored.Secondly, the firmware appears to have information on the size of some road and not others. This leads to situations where you are guided away from a small but perfectly passable road to a totally impassable little lane, NOT what you expect a truck specific Sat Nav to do.Thirdly the "Optimised Route" option where you enter a number of locations and allow the unit to....you guessed it, optimise the route for you is worse than bad. It would, until I stopped using it which was pretty quickly, try to take me right past drops that I had no reason to come back past apart from the fact that the "optimised route" thought I should.Fourthly, unlike my mates Tom Tom (not truck specific) you can't update your own unit to tell it to avoid a certain road in future or that a road is OK to use. I don't know if truck specific Tom Tom's can do this but to be fair but can't see why they wouldn't if their cheaper car units can. This would at least allow you to correct the firmware's mapping errors and shortcomings.There are quite a few other, less serious and easily fixable, problems with Garmin's firmware and I sent an email to their firmware development team after finding these issues. This was well over 6 months ago and needless to say although it was Garmin's own Customer Care that asked me to do this nothing in the firmware has changed in subsequent updates.So in summation if you drive mostly main routes and don't mind spending some serious cash then a Garmin Truck Sat Nav is for you. However, if you drive more local roads and don't want to be ripped off (look at the price of Garmin's equivalent car Sat Nav's!!!) I would take a serious look at some of the cheaper brands available because they manage to avoid low bridges and weight restrictions for much, much less outlay.

I've always used a snooper but decided to give this a try, this sat nav is the best I've ever had, it works perfectly well in traffic updates and will reroute you if problems ahead on your route. Voice recognition is fantastic, built-in dash camera is fantastic as you can view and keep/ delete recordings. Any destination I've entered into the satnav, its got me there without any problems. Free lifetime maps and live traffic and i also bought a yearly speed camera alert for around £16 . What can i say other than it is perfect for hgvs and i have no hesitation in recommending it. Well done Garmin for an outstanding piece of kit. Brilliant sat nav.

Honest review.Live traffic is absolutely rubbish.Maps are not accurate with certain slips road's missing. Occasionally gets the lanes wrong.Voice command function to find addresses, you will end up arguing with it.Can't use voice command for traffic function or to answer calls.This has been my experience with Garmin dezlcam. I had high hopes for this device but it has failed to meet my expectations.An honest advice for hgv drivers. Go for the tomtom 6250. Comes with lifetime maps and traffic as standard. Phone function, voice command, faster response when rerouting. Much better traffic and gui. Built in WiFi.It's also cheaper brand new.Will be selling mine and getting the Tom Tom 6250.

I bought this as a replacement for my Tomtom 6000, because for some reason that one stopped connecting to my computer and stopped receiving live traffic.I feel like it is comparing IOS to Android. This device seems superior and the camera is just so nice to have. The only complain I have is how complex this device seems to be, or maybe just the interface and the fact that it doesn't give me the best route at all. I've seen people complaining about it and they're absolutely right and when you take the route you know instead of the one it determines faster it actually shaves minutes off your arrival time. This annoys me so much!Example: I'm on M11 going south and want to go to Barking/Dagenham. The best way is to keep south onto A406 and then A13. The gps will send me east to M25 J30/31 and then to A13, imagine that. Also, the alerts and restrictions keep showing up are also annoying.A colleague has a Garmin (not the same version) and tells me his gps sends him through A406 (with the example I just gave). Once we were on a convoy, my Tomtom said turn left and I saw our destination on the map in a few yards, but I was behind him and his Garmin sent him through another route and I followed him and it just added two miles more, consuming our time.For some reason the map seems to be more accurate or updated than the Tomtom but how much can one rely on this device? I might sell it and keep the Tomtom.