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Waze routes you like a car. You’re not driving one.
TrueNorthRV plans around the places your RV doesn’t fit — low bridges, weight-limited bridges, roads too narrow or too short for your rig — and tells you plainly when it couldn’t check.
The gap
Planned for an RV. Navigated as a hatchback.
RVers plan trips in apps built for RVs, then navigate with Waze or Apple Maps — which know nothing about the vehicle. They optimise for one thing: time.
So they take the shortcut. Through the old town centre, down the county road, into the turn you can’t make without backing up twice while traffic stacks behind you.
The route isn’t wrong. It’s right for a car, and nobody told it you aren’t in one.
What it routes around
Your dimensions, applied to every turn.
Tell TrueNorthRV your height, length, width and weight once. Every route after that is computed for a vehicle that size — not a generic one.
Low clearances
Bridges, tunnels and overpasses with a posted height lower than your rig, wherever the height is mapped.
Weight-limited bridges
Posted weight limits below your loaded weight, including the propane you carry.
Width and length limits
Roads posted against vehicles your width or your length, applied to every turn of the route.
Restricted roads, flagged
"No trucks" roads are shown on the route so you decide. An RV is not a commercial truck, and many of these roads are open to you.
How it reports
Three answers, and you always know which one you got.
An app that’s sometimes checking and sometimes guessing — without saying which — is worse than one that never checked, because you’d trust it. So the state is always on screen.
Checked and clear
Computed for your RV's height, length, width and weight by a router that knows the difference.
Checked, with a warning
A specific hazard was found on this route. You get what it is and where it is.
Could not check
The lookup failed, you're offline, or nobody has mapped this stretch. Said out loud — never quietly shown as clear.
What this can’t tell you
The map doesn’t know everything either.
Road restriction data is incomplete everywhere, and a road with no recorded limit usually means nobody has recorded one — not that it’s clear.
TrueNorthRV will tell you when it couldn’t check a stretch rather than quietly calling it fine. That’s the whole reason the third state exists.
This app reduces your risk. It does not remove it. Keep reading the signs.
Who else does this
We’re not the only ones. We’re honest about that.
RV LIFE Pro (~$65/yr) and Roadtrippers Premium (~$60/yr, US-only) both ship large-vehicle routing today. If you already pay for one and it works for you, keep it.
What nobody offers is this in the free apps people actually open — and none of them will tell you when they couldn’t check. That’s the part we think is missing.
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Routing stays on your phone. The web app shows you what you’ve planned; it doesn’t compute routes. Routing for your RV’s size needs your routing provider’s key, which lives in your phone’s Keychain and never leaves the device — so a route planned here couldn’t be checked against your vehicle. Rather than hand you one we can’t verify, we don’t offer it.