Enabling a Truck Route Violating a Restriction

A position derived from a postal code or a city is imprecise and may be located in the area forbidden for a given truck. To calculate a truck route using imprecise positions, like an approximate city-to-city route, use the calculateroute service specifying the truck restriction penalty type soft (truckRestrictionPenalty=soft). Note that the soft penalty requires the route notes to be enabled in the response.

You also have to specify an apiKey or app_id and app_code if you are using the app_id/app_code authentication (see the Identity & Access Management Developer Guide).

In the following example we request a route for a truck which is 5 meters high. The truckRestrictionsPenalty is set to soft and notes are enabled both in the routeAttributes and maneuverAttributes. The route ends on a link forbidden for vehicles higher than 4 meters. The returned route for the given truck uses this link. The response includes notes indicating that the route violates the truck restriction.

https://route.ls.hereapi.com/routing/7.2/calculateroute.json
?apiKey={YOUR_API_KEY}
&mode=fastest;truck
&waypoint0=geo!52.534924,13.199499
&waypoint1=geo!52.534614,13.199362
&height=5
&truckRestrictionPenalty=soft
&routeattributes=notes
&maneuverattributes=notes


<Route>
...
  <Leg>
    ...
    <Maneuver ...>
      ...
      <Note>
        <Type>violation</Type>
        <Code>truckRestriction</Code>
      </Note>
    </Maneuver>
    ...
  </Leg>

  <Note>
    <Type>violation</Type>
    <Code>routingOptionViolated</Code>
    <Text>truckRestriction</Text>
  </Note>
</Route>