Directory of other setup options

Fuel Dispatch offers many setup options that allow you to configure the system to best meet your company’s needs. For some features, the setup is best explained in combination with information on how end users use them. This table lists those features and provides links to the topics that describe them.

Feature Description

Layout security for windows, grids, and menus

  • Designing and modifying layouts for windows, data grids, and menus

  • Assigning layouts to users

Scroll windows

Enabling users' ability to use the scroll windows to edit and export data

Options for logging in and out

  • Using the global logon feature

  • Logging off without a confirmation message

Dispatch View Setup

Setting up views, which control database column retrieval and restrictions for the grids in the Planning Worksheet and Card Planner

Relationships setup

Driver schedules for shift-based dispatch

Setting up and assigning schedules for drivers' shifts

Note: Schedules apply only if you use the Trip Planner to do shift-based dispatch.

Load requirements

Setting up the feature that allows you to specify the accessories, characteristics, or qualifications that resources must have to haul specific loads

Expirations

Setting up the feature that allows you to record important activities and out-of-service dates for such things as driver vacations and equipment maintenance

Trailer Autoloading

The Fuel Dispatch Trailer Autoloading feature helps dispatchers load trailers to maximum capacities, thereby increasing trailer revenue while helping avoid fines related to overweight loads and axle overloading.