Does Waze Have a Truck Mode?

No. Waze has no truck profile and no way to enter a height, a weight, a length or a load class, so it cannot keep you off a low bridge or a road posted against trucks. The word truck does not appear anywhere in the Waze App Store description, which runs to more than a thousand words of feature copy. For a route planned around the rig, drivers use a truck navigation app; Trucker Path is free to download on iOS and Android.

No. Waze routes as a car and reroutes around traffic as a car. It does not hold the clearance of a bridge against the height of your trailer, and it has no layer for truck stops, truck parking, scale houses or diesel prices. Trucker Path does all of that and applies eleven hazmat load classes to the route as well.

There is no setting to switch on. Some drivers try to approximate one with avoid highways or avoid tolls, but neither of those knows your gross weight or your clearance, so neither can plan around a posted restriction. In Trucker Path the truck profile is set once — height, width, weight, type — and every route after that is built around it.

Whose crowd it is. Waze describes itself as a live map that harnesses the local knowledge of tens of millions of drivers, and the hazards its listing names are the ones a car cares about: potholes, speed bumps, objects on the road, bad weather. Trucker Path is reported by over a million truck drivers, so what comes in is whether a lot still has room, whether a scale house is open or closed, what diesel cost at the pump an hour ago, and what the shower block at that stop is actually like.

They are separate apps, and neither offers a truck mode: Google Maps publishes its travel modes as driving, public transit, walking, ride sharing, cycling, flight and motorcycle, and Waze does not mention trucks at all. If you have already tried one for a load, the other will route you the same way.

Not by height, because it never asks for your height. Low clearance routing needs the clearance of the structure and the height of your rig, compared before the line is drawn. Trucker Path takes the truck profile and raises low clearance warnings along the route and in trip planning.

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 already parked, weigh station open or closed status, and diesel prices from drivers filling up. Turn-by-turn navigation is on a paid plan.

Plenty of drivers do. Waze is good at what a car needs from a road, and there is nothing to stop you keeping it. Run a truck app for the route, the stops and the parking, because those are the parts a car map was never asked to answer.