Route planning

Offload's route planner builds routes that account for oversize and overweight restrictions, bridge clearances, and state-specific rules, then hands the driver a route they can follow turn by turn.

New to routing? The back office plans the route on the desktop (see Plan a route), and the driver follows it turn by turn on the phone or tablet (see Navigation). Routing and permits share the same map, so a permitted route plotted during permit review is the same route you adjust here.

How it works

A route goes from a planned path in the office to turn-by-turn directions in the truck:

1. 1

   Plan

   The back office opens a load and the planner proposes a route on the map, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
2. 2

   Adjust

   The planner adds waypoints or drags the route until it looks right, then saves.
3. 3

   Send

   The saved route exports as a PDF turn-by-turn guide or rides along in the driver's app on the load.
4. 4

   Drive

   The driver follows the exact roads the planner approved, turn by turn.

What the planner checks for you

The planner already avoids restricted roads for your vehicle's dimensions, so adjustments are usually small touch-ups, not a rebuild. It handles:

• Multi-state routing with jurisdiction-aware analysis.
• Bridge clearance checks against the load's height and width.
• Restricted-road avoidance based on the load's dimensions and weight.
• Conflict flagging along the route (low clearance, narrow passage, weight limit) so you can reroute before the truck rolls.

Adjusting the route

The planner is a starting point you refine, not a path you accept blindly. To change it:

• Add a waypoint to pull the route through a specific intersection or staging point.
• Drag the route to move it off a road you don't want and onto one you do.

Save when it looks right. For the full walkthrough, see Plan a route.

The route sequence and archived routes

A load's routes live in an ordered route sequence on its Routing & Permits tab: the legs, in driving order, that make up the trip. Routes you no longer need don't get deleted; they get archived.

• Archived routes collapse into an Archived routes section below the sequence. They're kept off the map; hover one to flash it as a dashed line, or use its eye toggle to keep it visible.
• Archive or restore a route from its row menu. Restoring puts it back into the sequence.
• A permit route follows its permit's status. Setting a permit to Archived archives its routes and pulls them from the active sequence (Offload asks you to confirm first). Restoring the permit's status restores the routes the same way. Because of that link, a permit route can't be un-archived directly; change the permit's status instead.

Sending it to the field

Once a route is saved, get it to the driver one of two ways:

• Export a PDF turn-by-turn guide.
• Let it ride along in the driver's app on the load.

Either way the driver follows the exact roads you approved.

Following the route

In the truck, Offload gives the driver turn-by-turn navigation that sticks to the permitted route, not just the fastest way. Voice prompts call out turns, curfews announce themselves as the driver gets close, and off-route alerts go to both the driver and dispatch. See Navigation for the driver flow.