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Transport queue and trips

How shipments become trips: the queue, planning, releasing, recurring trips, the map and vehicle swaps.

Who this is for

Transport officers and fleet managers (fleet.trips.plan). Readers (fleet.read) see the trips list, the trip page and the map.

Pages

PagePurpose
Transport queueSee waiting shipments, fix their papers, fit them into trips
Plan a tripBuild a trip, check it, save a draft, release it
Trips list and trip pageFind trips, follow a trip, edit, cancel, run for a driver
Recurring tripsTemplates that create draft trips ahead of time
The mapToday's trips and where the vehicles are
Vehicle swapsDecide a replacement when a vehicle goes down

Typical order of work

  1. Open the transport queue. Select shipments.
  2. Plan a trip and release it.
  3. Follow it on the dispatch board and the map.
  4. Handle problems on the trip page.