Dispatch management software
- Driver-truck assignments the week needs
- 20
- Driver-days available in the week
- 30
- Driver-days to spare after the assignments and the spares
- 8
Every figure here comes from the figures you enter and the method stated beside it: your trucks, your stops, your stop and drive times, your drivers and their days off. Where a sheet takes a public figure as its ceiling, the federal hours-of-service driving limit for instance, the page names the source and the date it was read.
Dispatch management software is the record of how the fleet's day was run, kept so that tomorrow's day is planned from it: the runs as assigned and as they went, the loads delivered and the exceptions, the drivers' days and days off, the trucks' utilisation. A small fleet manages dispatch on a whiteboard that is wiped every evening, which is why the same mistakes are made every week. Runsheetly Pro keeps the record; the free dispatch scheduling sheet on this site rosters the week it is planned from.
Open the Dispatch scheduling sheet (the week's roster) Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Roster the week from the drivers you have
The drivers, the trucks, the days the fleet runs, the shifts and the days off go into the dispatch scheduling sheet; it returns the assignments the week needs, the driver-days available, the slack after the spare days and the coverage per truck-shift.
Run the days on the board
Each day's runs are assigned from the roster, and the board keeps every status change with its time. An exception is recorded where it happened, not remembered on Friday.
Read the week and plan the next
Stops per truck, hours per run against the limit, exceptions per driver and per shipper, spare days used: the record gives the figures the whiteboard never kept, and the next roster is built from them.
What a dispatcher asks before using the Dispatch management software
What is dispatch management software?
The record of the fleet's runs, rosters, loads and exceptions, kept so the next week is planned from the last. Runsheetly Pro is that record for a small fleet.
How is it different from a TMS?
A transportation management system tenders loads, exchanges EDI with shippers and reports IFTA, priced per truck with a term. Dispatch management is the board and the roster; it works with any TMS or none.
Does it do the roster?
Yes. The free dispatch scheduling sheet rosters the drivers to the trucks for the week, and Pro keeps each week's roster against the runs it produced.
Will it hold your board, beyond the Dispatch management software?
Tell us how you dispatch today: how many trucks, how many stops a day, where the run sheets come from, and what goes wrong between the first load and the last delivery.