OptimoRoute

This feature allows a business to import many orders and automatically create efficient routes for its drivers. It considers customer locations, delivery times, driver working hours, vehicle capacity, and other rules when making the plan. This is useful because a dispatcher does not have to manually decide every driver’s route. Delivery companies, courier firms, and field-service businesses also benefit from it because they can schedule more jobs with less planning time.

OptimoRoute lets a business tell the system what each driver can do and what each vehicle can carry. For example, it can assign a refrigerator delivery to a refrigerated van or send an electrical job to a qualified electrician. Because of that, fleet managers can avoid assigning the wrong vehicle or worker to a job.

It permits a dispatcher to change routes after the day has started. They can add a new job, remove a canceled order, move work to another driver, or change the order of stops. Businesses with urgent deliveries, customer cancellations, driver absences, or changing schedules benefit the most from this feature.

OptimoRoute can plan a long-distance route that takes more than one day to complete. It can account for overnight stops and continue the route from where the driver stopped the previous day. This is valuable for transport managers and truck drivers because they can manage long journeys more clearly.

The software can plan work where an item must first be collected from one place and then delivered to another location. It keeps the pickup and delivery connected in the same route plan. Courier companies, collection services, transport businesses, and businesses moving goods between locations benefit from this feature.

The platform shows drivers and jobs on a visual timeline. A dispatcher can move a job from one driver to another or change the job sequence by dragging and dropping it on the timeline. Dispatchers benefit from this because they can see the full schedule clearly and make changes quickly. Not only that, but it also benefits businesses with many drivers, deliveries, or service appointments because managing work in a spreadsheet is much harder.

It has a real-time monitoring dashboard for dispatchers showing actual driver locations, progress indicators (who is on time, behind, or done), and instant vehicle reassignment capabilities for urgent or rush orders. Not only does this benefit dispatchers by giving them bird's-eye visibility into unexpected fleet challenges, but it also benefits customers, who receive more accurate arrival information.