Pick the right driver faster: empty driving, route previews, and one click for every repeat of a standing trip

See the empty driving, not just the distance

Each driver card now shows the empty drive to the pickup, the empty drive after the drop-off, and how many minutes the trip adds to that driver’s day, including the ride itself. Drivers are ranked by the driving they would add, so a driver who is already heading the same way comes first. When a driver is already at the pickup place around that time, the card says so.

• A driver with no trips yet is measured from home, and a driver with earlier trips is measured from where their last ride left them.
• The old “off duty” label now reads “No trips yet” or “After last trip”, because it never meant the driver was unavailable.

Preview a driver’s route on a map

Choose Preview route on any driver card to see a map of the ride before, this trip, and the ride after, with numbered stops and times. This trip is drawn solid and the driver’s other rides are dashed. A driver with no rides that day is shown leaving from their home base.

The trip details now sit in a strip across the top of the screen, with a small map of the pickup and drop-off, and the driver list uses the full width of the page.

See which trips repeat

Trips that repeat every week now carry a repeat marker on each driver’s day, and the trip details show how often the trip repeats, for example every Tue, Thu.

Assign a driver to every repeat

For a trip that repeats, each driver card offers Assign this trip and, when the driver is free for the repeats over the next 8 weeks, Assign every time. If the driver has a conflict, the card names the first one, for example an overlapping trip, time off, or a restriction, and offers only the single trip.

Once a driver is set for a series, new repeats are given to them automatically. If the driver is unavailable on a given day, that trip is left unassigned and a task tells dispatch why.