TLDN 2008 route color

[artmart]

After planning a route and using the "Get Directions", the color of the marked road can be of several colors. I have seen yellow, orange, and red. There may be other colors but these are what I noticed recently.

I cannot find any documentation on what these colors specifically denote. Does anyone know where I can find information on what these colors mean? I have tried Help, Online and FAQs and cannot find that specific information. I imagine it has to do with using caution especially when I specify I am driving 50 ft of truck and trailer but I don't know what criteria determines the caution or if this criteria can be reviewed or changed.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Art

[Kevin_T]

After planning a route and using the "Get Directions", the color of the marked road can be of several colors. I have seen yellow, orange, and red. There may be other colors but these are what I noticed recently.

I cannot find any documentation on what these colors specifically denote. Does anyone know where I can find information on what these colors mean? I have tried Help, Online and FAQs and cannot find that specific information. I imagine it has to do with using caution especially when I specify I am driving 50 ft of truck and trailer but I don't know what criteria determines the caution or if this criteria can be reviewed or changed.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Art

Somewhere in the TL 2010 help, I think I saw it has to do with elevation, but I am not 100%, because I can't find that reference any longer

[artmart]

Well, I found the link to tech support and sent them an email. Very quick responses were returned to me and what they explained was that the calculated route starts with a light yellow color at sea level and as the altitude increases per the calculated route the color changes to a dark red for higher altitudes...

The gradient colors are subtle but they will go to a medium yellow, darker yellow, light orange, darkening shades of orange and on to darkening shades of red. If a trip is planned and all of it is at high altitude, the whole route will be a dark red. Hopefully you all get the idea.

The actual elevations and corresponding altitude values from the calculated route could not be explained in detail, but like you mentioned this can be manipulated with additional options in TLDCN 2010 (You are right about this Kevin). In TLDCN 2008 it is fixed to what was explained above.