Does Google Maps Have a Truck Route Option?

No. Google Maps Help lists the directions it offers as driving, public transit, walking, ride sharing, cycling, flight and motorcycle. There is no truck mode, and route preferences such as avoiding tolls or highways do not account for truck height, weight, length, axles or what you are hauling. For a route planned around the truck, drivers use a truck navigation app; Trucker Path is free to download on iOS and Android.

You cannot. There is no truck setting to switch on. Some drivers try to approximate one by turning on avoid highways or avoid tolls. Neither of those knows your clearance or your gross weight. Neither will keep you off a road posted against trucks, or out from under a bridge you do not fit through.

Not by height, because it never asks for your height. Low clearance is a truck-routing function: the map has to hold the clearance of the structure and the height of your rig and compare them. Trucker Path takes the truck profile and warns on low clearances along the route, and carries the same warnings into trip planning.

A car route optimizes for time and distance and assumes anything on the road network is available to you. A truck route starts from the vehicle — height, width, weight, length and load class — and removes everything that vehicle cannot legally or physically use: low clearances, weight-limited bridges, residential streets, and roads closed to placarded freight. The two can differ by many miles. Posted restrictions and current conditions are still the driver’s call.

Not in Google Maps, which has no commercial vehicle mode at all. In Trucker Path the route options carry an Apply Hazmat setting with eleven load classes: explosive, gas, flammable, combustible, organic, poison, radioactive, corrosive, toxic inhalant, water pollutant and other. Select the ones you are hauling and the route is planned with them applied.

No. Waze is built for cars in the same way: no truck profile, no clearance or weight input, and no truck stop, scale house or truck parking layer. The same gap applies as with Google Maps.

Read the Waze truck-mode guide

No. Apple Maps covers driving, walking, transit and cycling, with no field for vehicle height, weight or load class, and no truck parking or weigh station information.

Yes. Trucker Path is free to download on iOS and Android with no time limit, and the route it plans is built around your truck height, width, weight and type — seeing it costs nothing. It also carries more than 500,000 truck stops across the USA and Canada, parking availability reported by drivers, weigh station open or closed status, and diesel prices. Turn-by-turn navigation along the route is on a paid plan.

No need. Keep it for a street view or a phone number, and run a truck app for the route, the stops and the parking. They are two different jobs, and only one of them knows how tall you are.