Dispatch board software is the whiteboard made readable from the road: every truck and driver, every run with its loads and stops, and a status that moves from assigned to en route to delivered or exception as the day goes. The office reads it, the drivers read their own rows on the phone, and the question 'which truck can take this load' is answered by looking rather than by calling three drivers. This page is what the board holds, how the status is moved and by whom, what a board is not (a map), and how Runsheetly Pro keeps it for a fleet of two to fifty trucks at one price.
What a row on the board is
A run: a driver, a truck, a date, its loads with their pickups and deliveries, its stops in order with their windows, and its status. The run sheet the driver carries was sized by the free dispatch schedule before the row existed, so the board never holds a run that does not fit the day. Runsheetly Pro adds the history: every status change with its time, which is what dispatch management reads on Friday.
Who moves the status
The driver, from the road: en route at the first stop, delivered at the last, exception when something goes wrong, with the time. The dispatcher moves it from the office when the driver cannot. A board where only the office moves the status is a whiteboard with a login, because the office only knows what it was told.
A board is not a map
A map shows where a truck is; a board shows what it is doing and what it has left. A small fleet's dispatcher acts on the second: the empty truck, the run that is behind, the exception at stop four. GPS is telematics, priced per vehicle with hardware in the cab, and it can sit beside the board for a fleet that wants both; the board does not need it.
From the board to the roster and back
The board holds the days; the roster holds the week. The dispatch scheduling sheet rosters the drivers to the trucks with the days off and the spare days counted, and each day's runs are assigned from it. When a driver calls in sick the roster moves a name and the board follows. Runsheetly Pro keeps both, exportable, for the whole fleet.
Questions people ask about dispatch board software
What is dispatch board software?
The board of every truck, driver, load, stop and run with its status, readable from the road and moved by the drivers. Runsheetly Pro is that board for a small fleet.
Does the board need GPS?
No. GPS shows where a truck is; the board shows what it is doing and what is left. Telematics can sit beside it for a fleet that pays for it.
Can the drivers see the whole board?
Each driver sees their own runs and moves their status; the dispatcher sees the fleet. Pro is one price for the whole fleet.