Hello Bromptonaut, I agree that there is a lot of interuption from surrounding areas that have no relevance. In North Yorkshire I regulary pick up BBC Ulster and BBC Scotland and their traffic reports. I still maintain that to slavishly interupt scheduled programmes every 30 minutes or so, with nothing new to report is an abuse of the system, and not for which it was designed. I do though keep the TP on, because travelling a lot, I would hate to miss an opportunity to divert away from problems. Just a little circumspection to enhance the system is all I ask. The BBC used to be quite amenable to rational thought, but I fear not so now. Cheers Concrete.

The funny thing is that should you be tuned to another station then arguably the best traffic reports for distance which are on Radio 2 don't come through on the TP system, doesn't work in reverse.

You are correct gordon, Sally Traffic et al on radio 2 are excellent, the strange thing is that 'local' BBC stations interupt them too!!! Which is why I am saying that they should monitor when they use the TP system to get the best use from it. As you say some knowledge of the routes you travel is essential to pick the bones out of any report. When my current car goes I will not pay for a factory fitted system, so your Garmin sounds ideal for a portable and cheaper system too. Cheers Concrete

The best early traffic warning system i ever had was the original TrafficMaster YQ unit, never equalled IMO, scan the whole country in seconds which enabled you to not only choose whichever route was problem free but the more experienced user would look out for trouble on other routes which would probably affect one of your own possible routes, and able to keep an eye on things en route.

Quite why TM closed it i never found out, presumably partly through not being digital it had no possibility of monitoring/surveillance of owners/users.