Workflow, issues and fixes and other helpful hints

SNI direcetions are gone, but all the useful information for MOST customers has been migrated to the Navigo dispatch function, which updates about as fast as we used to get the SNI directions. Only problem is you can't get it to update until making the load active. To see the notes ahead of time just select the stop point, hit the details button, then notes and all the information is there. Parking and phone numbers were never part of the directions system but in the load information and you can find that in workflow too. As workflow becomes a more stable program and more people understand how to use if effectively it is getting almost as efficient as the old system.

 

SNI directions are indeed gone, which pains me, I loved writing them down and checking my route that way.

That being said, the NAVGO directions are pretty good, I have only found a few snags, that were really easy to overcome.

 

thanks for the info. wow, i think that's really bad news

 

thanks for your input. it's been a very long time since i had my workflow training so i dont really recognize anything you mention here (it's been like 8 or 9 months). are you saying that once i am on the load, most of the info i was talking about that i thought was important will be available to me again, for most shipper/receivers anyway? (for example, this is the kind of info i'm talking about: "ignore the street address...go on down to the next street, which is unmarked; turn right, and you will see another entrance that is also not marked. park across the street and walk back across the street to guard shack 6, which is not marked either but it's the guard shack right next to the yellow fire hydrant. a guard will be there between 6am-8pm.)

 

thanks for your input only a few snags? too bad in our profession one single snag can send you up a mountain where there's no place to turn around

also i'm wondering what the navigation system tells you when the route in to a facility is a truck route but that exact same route out is not. (i've been to places like this in washington state, and also places in pennsylvania where the road goes under a bridge that is 13'6" on one side of the road but lower on the other side of the road.)


i have never used any navigation system that was part of any qualcomm unit...and i only use my gps in "map mode" as a means of telling me where i am, NOT where i need to go. (map mode just shows you a map, where north is always up and south is always down, and it shows you an arrow where you are. the arrow points in the direction you are going - it does NOT tell you where to go.)

anyway ill guess we'll see how it goes thanks again

 

what I mean by snags, is the GPS will tell you to look for your destination "on the right" and the only thing on the right is trees, but if you look to your left, viola, there is your destination. Or it will be another 1/4 mile down the road, nothing major like turning you down the wrong street.

There are notes(not as descriptive as yours LOL) such as "truck entrance is gate 6" or "facility entrance is on xxx street".

 

I have used it a few times, 3 or 4 days later I will get a message thanking me for the feedback. I have not gone back to a facility that I sent it in on so I don't know if they actually fix it. Most places I have done it at, I think are brokered loads, that we don't go to a lot.

 

"i'm a stupid computer programmed by someone who has never been within 100 feet of a tractor-trailer. turn right at the next light, smack into the 13' bridge, and then drive into the ocean"

 

i guess notes that aren't as descriptive as mine are better than no notes at all are you talking about driver-generated notes, like someone suggested earlier (i think)? i still think that there's no substitute for driver-generated notes written out by drivers who have actually been there in a tractor-trailer. but whatever...i like the choice program so i guess it's something im just going to have to get used to