Find nearby orders for a trip

Nearby planning shows which unplanned orders fit a trip you already have: close to its route, near one of its stops or after its last stop. It also works the other way round: for one shipment, it shows which trips can still take it.

Open the nearby orders

• Right-click a trip on the trip board, in the trips list or on the planner and choose Find nearby orders (along the route) or Find the next order after this trip.
• On the planner, right-click a stop inside the trip bar and choose Find nearby orders from this stop.
• Right-click a shipment, for example in Watchtower, and choose Find trips nearby.

The panel Nearby orders (or Trips nearby) opens on the right. Completed and canceled trips do not have these menu items.

Read the results

1. Check the line under the title: Along the route, Around stop or After the last stop.
2. Click a Radius button (5, 10, 25 or 50 km, plus your platform default) to search wider or narrower.
3. Look at the map: it shows the trip's route, the search area and the pickups found.
4. Read each result: the shipment and customer, pickup → delivery, the fit score as a percentage (or Does not fit), the distance, the detour in mile and minutes, and where it would go in the trip (After stop followed by a number).
5. Check the chips: one per capacity dimension, such as Weight, Load meters, Volume, Pallets or TEU (hover one to see what is needed and what is left), and a timing chip: Times fit, Check times, Misses a window or No planned times.
6. Click a result to show its pickup and delivery on the map.

A detour marked routed was calculated over the road; others are an estimate. The time check uses the same tolerances as the plan status; see Time windows and plan status.

Add an order to the trip

1. Find a result that fits.
2. Click Add to trip.
3. Wait until the result shows Added. The pickup and delivery are put into the trip at the position shown, and the list refreshes.
4. Open the trip to check the new stops and times.

Results that do not fit cannot be added. If More matches than shown; narrow the radius appears, choose a smaller radius.

For administrators: settings

Under Settings > Environment > Planning > Find nearby you set, among others, the Default search radius (mi), the Largest radius (mi), Most results, the Order statuses that count as still to plan, the Longest wait before a pickup window (minutes), Tight capacity from (%) and whether to Also show candidates that do not fit. Click Save after changes.