Dear Waze Business Development Team,

I’m reaching out with an idea to supercharge Waze for a growing segment of drivers: those navigating with large vehicles like trucks, RVs, and trailers. Picture this—an extension or feature set that layers real-time weather updates and vehicle-specific routing onto Waze’s already stellar platform. I believe this could open new doors for your app while solving real pain points for users.

The Concept:
Integrate two key enhancements into Waze:
Weather-Aware Routing: Pull live weather data (rain, snow, fog, etc.) to flag hazards and suggest safer paths—think avoiding icy bridges or low-visibility stretches.

Large Vehicle Customization: Let users input their vehicle’s height, weight, and width, then tailor routes to dodge low overpasses, weight-restricted roads, or tight turns. Add community reports for truck-specific obstacles, keeping Waze’s crowdsourcing magic alive.

Why It Works for Waze:
Expands Your Audience: Captures truckers, delivery drivers, and RV campers who need more than standard car navigation.

Boosts Safety: Weather and restriction alerts keep drivers out of trouble, aligning with Waze’s focus on smarter, safer roads.
Leverages Existing Strengths: Builds on your real-time traffic data and user community—no need to reinvent the wheel.

How It Could Look:
This could be an in-app extension (e.g., “Waze for Trucks”) or a premium feature. I’d integrate weather APIs like OpenWeatherMap and tap into DOT restriction data, blending it seamlessly with Waze’s routing engine. I’m happy to collaborate on a prototype or flesh out details if there’s interest.

About Me: Retired and traveling the USA in a Class C motorhome pulling an enclosed trailer. I know there are trucking apps, but I love Waze.

Thanks for considering this—I’m excited about the potential to make Waze even more indispensable.

It seems useful to me to also add truck to vehicle data, which indicates the correct speed for the truck and all the checks, including the tow bar meters and so on, so that you can, for example,

Het lijkt mij handig om bij voertuig gegevens ook vrachtwagen toe te voegen wat de juiste snelheid voor de vrachtwagen aangeeft en al de controles ook de takograaf meters en zo voort dat je b.v. je lengte hoogte breete gewicht **** instellen zo dat je niet onverwacht voor een tunnel staat waar je niet door ****

Love your app

Use it everyday

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Any change you can add heavy vehicle

Low bridges, load limits, dead end, etc

Cheers Tim

As a driver of a larger vehicle, I constantly have to second-guess the app's routing. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Find carry on trailer phone number https://www.pissedconsumer.com/company/carry-on-trailer/customer-service.html they offer lots of different solutions for transporting different goods. Think about the safety aspect. Getting routed onto a road with low bridges or weight restrictions is a serious hazard. The ability to input vehicle specs is crucial, it improves driver safety when you carry on trailer.

Muito importante

Incluir rotas que nao podem passar veículos pesados e não sugerir rotas que não podem passar.
A inclusão de veículos pesados x rotas, diminuiria significativamente os acidentes com veículos pesados que trafegam por rotas proibidas a eles.

Add an option to add a trailer or camper to your drive. This way if there are certain roads you can’t go down it won’t give you that road as an option. Ex: a traffic jam happens and you go an alternate route. Sometimes it gives you roads only accessible by a car. This needs to change.

AND SPORTS CAR! The best sports car routes are twisty and off the beaten track.

Please be the ***first*** to correctly calculate the arrival time, based on the max possible speed of the vehicle in the user defined profile!!! Please...!!!

Can you add type of vehicle is use for the route. Trucks is using routes that is dangerous. Especially when the hill is to steep to go up. This will cause the truck to be unable it go up and will cause a accident by jack knicing.

Strange that it is not the most voted request! especially from the thousands of truck drivers.
that they use another navigator for their vehicles?

I love the idea, and I need it! Please work on it!! We need to use our favourite GPS with our caravan!

Be nice for delivery van drivers like myself

It would be fantastic if you could set your vehicle type to "van", "coach" or "HGV", along with any maximum speed restriction, for Waze to choose more appropriate routes and journey times. Avoiding unsuitable roads and low bridges is the main one!

why can't we choose the vehicle campervan anymore? that was possible before. also handy to be able to enter the width, height and weight of the vehicle so that the route takes that into account

I drive into london for work and very often Waze tells me to go through the Rotherhithe tunnel and sometimes other routes but my van is above the 2 Ton limit. I would like Waze to have an option so it knows my van is 3.5 Tons and it won't take me on routes which I shouldn't be on.

Je souhaite gérer le gabarit de mon véhicule, et éviter de le scalper sous des ponts et tunnels.
Merci.

Please add option for buses and kartę vehicles, transport cara, lorries and option to write custom parameters od vehicles. IT shoild be available even as paid sunscripton

A lot of us in the ambulance service use Waze to help us through busy traffic in London and other cities... but as the app is generally car-specific, it often routes via low bridges, width restrictions, Rotherhithe Tunnel, and will guide you through housing estates, minor lanes, etc., to save a few minutes of traffic. For this reason, I tend to use Sygic Truck in preference to Waze, especially for blue light runs... You're missing out on a lot of users, both service and commercial, because we can't have vehicle-specific routes in Waze