Forecasting & Routing
Forecasting & Routing
Forecasting: Know Which Deliveries Matter Before They Become Emergencies
Orders and tank-monitoring readings flow into TankSpotter from your customer accounting system, and every delivery gets ranked by urgency automatically — not by whoever called the office first.
- When a truck breaks down or a driver calls out, the dispatcher can instantly see which stops are true run-out risk and which can wait a day, instead of re-checking every account by hand. - Keep-full and will-call customers are forecast against degree-days and usage history, so tanks get scheduled before they run dry, not after a customer calls in a panic. - Urgency ranking cuts run-outs and the after-hours emergency deliveries that come with them — the single most expensive kind of stop to run.
Routing: The Most Efficient Route, Built Automatically, Re-Built Mid-Day
TankSpotter's dispatch board lays every job out geographically and routes it automatically for the shortest distance and fastest time — accounting for real-time traffic, geography, and each customer's delivery window.
- Dispatchers can drag, drop, add, delete, or transfer any job between trucks with a click, and re-optimize a route mid-day the moment a new order or a cancellation comes in. - Route overlap gets eliminated and stops get clustered by area, so fewer trucks cover more jobs with less windshield time and less fuel burned driving in circles. - Every route's planned miles are tracked against the driver's actual miles, giving you a real, ongoing efficiency number per driver instead of a guess. - One dispatcher can manage a meaningfully larger board without adding headcount, because the system — not memory and a paper map — is doing the routing work.
Instant Dispatch: Office to Truck in Seconds, Paperless
Once a route is set, it's sent wirelessly straight to the driver's phone or tablet in optimized stop order — no printed route sheets, no radio callbacks to confirm a job.
- Drivers get turn-by-turn navigation to every stop and can complete the job on the device: digital signature, photos, GPS coordinates, and a timestamp, submitted the moment the job is done. - The office dashboard updates in real time as each stop completes, so a dispatcher always knows exactly where every truck and every job stands without calling the driver to ask. - Same-day, on-the-fly redispatch works the same way — a new urgent order goes out to the closest available truck in seconds, not at the next scheduled check-in.
More Than Routing — One Platform for Delivery, Service, Safety, and Training
Standalone routing and dispatch software stops at the truck. TankSpotter doesn't — the same office-to-driver dispatch backbone that forecasts, routes, and dispatches deliveries also runs your safety compliance, service tech workflows, and technician training, in one app instead of three separate systems that don't talk to each other.
- Every completed delivery or service stop feeds the same audit-ready documentation TankSpotter is built around — photos, GPS, timestamps, and digital signatures — so an efficient route also builds the same documentation trail your safety and compliance work relies on. - Safety inspections, NFPA compliance checks, and management alerts run on the same dispatch schedule your delivery routes use, so safety work gets planned and tracked, not bolted on after the fact. - Service techs and delivery drivers share one dispatch board, one training record, and one customer history, so a company running TankSpotter isn't paying for a routing tool, a safety app, and a training system separately.
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