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Ordnance Survey helps with haulage sat nav

Ordnance Survey has announced plans to keep logistics HGVs on the appropriate roads around the UK.

The company provides the underlying road network data to the satellite navigation industry, and now wants to get the freight route maps created by local authorities into sat nav devices.

This will help freight haulage drivers from logistics companies carrying return loads and backloads around the country to stay on the most suitable roads. Sometimes freight haulage drivers with loads get stuck down narrow country lanes.

The move will help to reduce congestion on local roads and "help ensure hauliers can make their journeys safely and efficiently".

"With more HGVs on our roads than ever before, we recognise that having lorries and trucks routed down unsuitable roads is a problem for the hauliers, residents and the local authorities," said Ordnance Survey's Tom Satterthwaite.

"I believe that as the national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey is best placed to help facilitate a solution that will benefit everyone. Over the coming months we'll be talking with local authorities across the country to see how we can help encourage commercial vehicles to use these routes and hopefully get them into sat navs."

The Freight Haulage Association agreed that sat navs could be good for helping freight haulage drivers in HGVs (from logistics companies) carrying return loads and backloads choose the right roads.

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