Dispatching trips and shifts in the Trip Planner

Dispatching a trip sets the trip’s status to Dispatched. You can dispatch individual trips, or a driver’s entire shift.

Dispatching a single trip

To dispatch a single trip:

  1. Go to Operations > Trip Planner.

  2. Retrieve trips and resources.

  3. In the Shift pane, select the driver on the trip.

  4. In the Assignment Plan pane, right-click on the trip to dispatch.
    A shortcut menu is displayed.

  5. Select Dispatch Trip.
    The trip’s status is shown as DSP .

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Dispatching a driver’s shift

To dispatch a driver’s whole shift, including all trips currently assigned to that driver:

  1. Go to Operations > Trip Planner.

  2. Retrieve trips and resources.

  3. In the Shift pane, right click on the driver to dispatch.
    A shortcut menu is displayed.

  4. Select Dispatch Shift.
    All trips assigned to that driver are shown as DSP.

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