About TruckMaps AU
TruckMaps AU plans routes for the heavy vehicle you're actually driving — a B-double, road train, bus, oversize or agricultural vehicle, or anything else in the NHVR catalogue — then guides you turn by turn with your phone's GPS. It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers: nothing to install. The app itself is called HV Navigator.
Guidance only — your permit/notice and road signs take priority.
Everything is built around NHVR's own data for your vehicle, with the checks a heavy-vehicle driver needs before and during a trip.
Pick your NHVR vehicle category and the exact vehicle. The app lists the NHVR networks that apply to it, with their authorising notices, and NHVR's router plans the route on the networks you tick. Access is colour-coded along the line.
The fastest route first, plus up to two alternatives. Each shows its time, distance, the difference to the fastest, the main roads it uses and how much of it is approved for your vehicle.
NHVR's router labels roads that are restricted for your vehicle but doesn't route around them. TruckMaps AU looks for options that do, marks the first one without restrictions as Recommended, and tells you when it can't find one.
Enter your gross vehicle mass and every route option gets a bridge badge: structures whose published mass rules are below your mass, and ones you need to check. Most bridges have no published figure, so treat it as a guide, not a clearance.
Switch on dangerous goods and confirm your height (filled in from NHVR's vehicle details) to flag tunnels and roads with dangerous-goods bans, height limits and published clearances — and to look for options around them.
Live GPS guidance with spoken directions, early warnings for restricted roads, tunnels, low clearances and dangerous-goods bans, and automatic rerouting that keeps to the route option you chose.
Bridges and structures that aren't approved for your network, clearance points and turn restrictions from NHVR's open data, listed in order along your route and announced as you approach them.
Big touch targets, light and dark themes, up to three stops per trip, your recent places and vehicles kept on your device, and the screen kept awake while you drive where the browser allows it.
Plan in four steps, then press GO.
Vehicles, networks, routes and access come from the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) — the same services behind NHVR's National Network Map. Routes and access are NHVR's at the moment you ask; vehicle and network lists are refreshed from NHVR every 12 hours.
Hazards, the bridge mass check and the restriction checks use NHVR's official open-data network files. They're checked against NHVR again once they're a day old and updated whenever NHVR has changed them.
Routing, NHVR checks, hazards and spoken navigation are free for everyone. Pro is only about the map and address search.
A$0
The free Google allowance is shared by everyone who uses TruckMaps AU each month, with daily limits to keep it fair.
A$20 per month
Fair-use limit: 1,000 map and search requests per month. Past it, you're on OpenStreetMap until your next billing period. Daily limits on Google use still apply to every plan, so on a very busy day the map can switch to OpenStreetMap until the limit resets.
No. TruckMaps AU is guidance only and doesn't authorise any journey. Your permit or notice conditions and road signs always take priority. Treat sections shown as Restricted, No access or Not on mapped network as needing a permit or a local-access check before you travel them.
No. The checks read the rules NHVR publishes, much of it as free text, and the data can be incomplete or out of date. A route without a finding isn't cleared for your vehicle or load — check it against your notice and permit like any other route.
Maps and address search cover all of Australia. Vehicles, networks, routes and access come from the NHVR, so their coverage follows NHVR's National Network Map. The NHVR administers heavy-vehicle access in the states and territories under the Heavy Vehicle National Law: the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory run their own heavy-vehicle access schemes, so for trips there check Main Roads WA or the NT Government as well.
Partly. Searching, route planning, rerouting and loading network data need a mobile or Wi-Fi connection. If you lose signal while driving, guidance carries on along your current route and the app tells you it's offline, but it can't reroute until the connection is back.
There are no offline map downloads, so parts of the map you haven't viewed yet may not show without signal. Plan your trip while you have coverage.
Google charges for every map load and address search. Free users share a monthly Google allowance, with daily limits to keep it fair. When a limit is reached — or Google isn't available — the app switches to OpenStreetMap and shows a short notice instead of blocking you. Routes, NHVR checks, hazards and navigation keep working, and Google Maps comes back when the limit resets. Pro subscribers get their own allowance.
Not for the free version. An account (email and password) is only needed to subscribe to Pro. Your vehicle, network choices, recent places and settings are saved on your device, not on our server.
A current version of Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox with location turned on for truckmapau.com. Spoken guidance starts with one tap on GO. Some browsers can't keep the screen awake, and iPhone Safari can pause the page if you switch to another app, so keep TruckMaps AU on screen while you drive.
No. TruckMaps AU uses NHVR's public data and services, but it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.
Google Search lets you choose preferred sources. Sites you choose can appear more often for you in Top Stories, AI Overviews and AI Mode when they have something relevant to your search. To see more from TruckMaps AU there, add it with Google's button.
Button not showing? Open Google's preferred sources page for TruckMaps AU (opens Google).
It's a setting in your Google Search preferences, not in TruckMaps AU, and it doesn't change how the navigator works.
Vehicle catalogue, networks and notices, routing and access from the services behind the National Network Map, and NHVR open data for hazards, bridges and restrictions. Used under NHVR's terms of use and open-data licence. More at nhvr.gov.au.
The map, address search and place lookups while Google Maps is active. Map data © Google and its data providers, as credited on the map.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. Address search by OpenStreetMap's Nominatim when Google isn't in use; the dark map style by CARTO. The map credits the tiles in use.
Position from your phone's GPS, and spoken directions from your browser's built-in voice (an Australian English voice where one is available).
Guidance only — your permit/notice and road signs take priority.
TruckMaps AU doesn't authorise any journey and never tells you a route is legal, safe or compliant. Check every route against your notice, permit and network conditions, and obey road signs and road-manager restrictions.
Routes, restrictions, bridge figures, clearances and hazards come from published data that can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Plan your trip before you set off, and only use a phone that's securely mounted, as the road rules require.
TruckMaps AU is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NHVR.