This gives dispatchers and planners instant visibility into leg-by-leg travel information without leaving the shipment creation, detail, or summary views - making driver assignment and appointment scheduling faster and more informed. We will be incorporating drive time and HOS calculations in appointment setting and planning windows in a later release.
Distance and drive time pills now appear between each stop on over the road shipments (FTL, LTL, Parcel, and Drayage).
Each pill shows:
Driving distance (miles or kilometers based on user unit preference)
Estimated drive time for that leg based on the distance and route provided by the distance service configured for the customer. (e.g. PC Miler version 3X versus HERE Maps versus Rand McNally)
Hovering over a pill displays a tooltip with full segment detail.
The pills are visible in the following areas for land shipment modes:
Shipment detail: Stops section
2. Dashboard Shipment Summary
3. New Shipment Creation Page
Rearranging stops on the shipment detail page or shipment creation page will re-run the distance and travel time calculation.
Notes
Stops with incomplete or missing addresses will gracefully skip the pill with no gap or error shown.
Users configured for metric units will see distances in kilometers (km). All other users will see miles (mi). This respects existing account-level unit settings with no additional configuration required.
Distance and travel time pills do not appear on air, ocean, or rail shipments, as routing distance is not available for those modes yet.
Stop appointment dates and times now display in MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm (24-hour) format, correcting a previous DD/MM/YYYY display issue.
If your distance service is interrupted (e.g. Rand McNally isn’t available or doesn’t return a route we will not display a distance or drive time)