Shaping Your Route; Taking A Detour; Changing The Route Calculation Mode; Stopping The Route - Garmin BC 40 Owner's Manual

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Select Go!.
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Select an option:
• To add the location as the next destination in your route,
select Add As Next Stop.
• To add the location to the end of your route, select Add
As Last Stop.
• To add the location and edit the order of destinations in
your route, select Add to Active Route.
The device re-calculates the route to include the added location
and guides you to the destinations in order.

Shaping Your Route

Before you can shape your route, you must start a route
(Starting a Route, page 6).
You can manually shape your route to change its course. This
allows you to direct the route to use a certain road or go through
a certain area without adding a destination to the route.
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Touch anywhere on the map.
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Select .
The device enters route shaping mode.
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Select a location on the map.
TIP: You can select to zoom in on the map and select a
more precise location.
The device recalculates the route to travel through the
selected location.
4 If necessary, select an option:
• To add more shaping points to the route, select additional
locations on the map.
• To remove a shaping point, select
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When you are finished shaping the route, select Go!.

Taking a Detour

You can take a detour for a specified distance along your route
or detour around specific roads. This is useful if you encounter
construction zones, closed roads, or poor road conditions.
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From the map, select > Edit Route.
TIP: If the Edit Route tool is not in the map tools menu, you
can add it.
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Select an option:
• To detour your route for a specific distance, select Detour
by Distance.
• To detour around a specific road on the route, select
Detour by Road.
• To find a new route, select Detour.

Changing the Route Calculation Mode

1 Select Settings > Navigation > Calculation Mode.
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Select an option:
• Select Faster Time to calculate routes that are faster to
drive but can be longer in distance.
• Select Off Road to calculate point-to-point routes (without
roads).
• Select Shorter Distance to calculate routes that are
shorter in distance but can take more time to drive.

Stopping the Route

From the map, select > Stop.

Using Suggested Routes

Before you can use this feature, you must save at least one
location and enable the travel history feature
Privacy Settings, page 17).
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Using the myTrends
destination based on your travel history, the day of the week,
and the time of day. After you have driven to a saved location
several times, the location may appear in the navigation bar on
the map, along with the estimated time of travel, and traffic
information.

Avoiding Delays, Tolls, and Areas

Avoiding Traffic Delays on Your Route

Before you can avoid traffic delays, you must be receiving traffic
information
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By default, the device optimizes your route to avoid traffic delays
automatically. If you have disabled this option in the traffic
settings
traffic delays manually.
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Avoiding Toll Roads

Your device can avoid routing you through areas that require
tolls, such as toll roads, toll bridges, or congestion areas. The
device may still include a toll area in your route if no other
reasonable routes are available.
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Avoiding Toll Stickers

If the map data on your device contains detailed toll sticker
information, you can avoid or allow roads that require toll
stickers for each country.
NOTE: This feature is not available in all areas.
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Avoiding Road Features

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feature, your device predicts your
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Select the navigation bar to view a suggested route to the
location.
(Receiving Traffic Data Using Your Smartphone,
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(Traffic Settings, page
While navigating a route, select > Traffic.
Select Alternate Route, if available.
Select Go!.
Select Settings > Navigation.
Select an option:
NOTE: The menu changes based on your area and the map
data on your device.
• Select Toll Roads.
• Select Tolls and Fees > Toll Roads.
Select an option:
• To be asked each time before routing through a toll area,
select Always Ask.
• To always avoid tolls, select Avoid.
• To always allow tolls, select Allow.
Select Save.
Select Settings > Navigation > Tolls and Fees > Toll
Stickers.
Select a country.
Select an option:
• To be asked each time before routing through an area that
requires toll stickers, select Always Ask.
• To always avoid roads that require toll stickers, select
Avoid.
• To always allow roads that require toll stickers, select
Allow.
Select Save.
Select Settings > Navigation > Avoidances.
Select the road features to avoid on your routes, and select
OK.
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Navigating to Your Destination