When dispatch can see every vehicle
One live map for dispatch and the field: smarter routing, clearer ETAs, fewer missed stops.
Daily Operations
When the office sees what the field sees, the day runs smoother for both.
Sequence stops sensibly and adjust as the day changes.
See who is closest, who is running late, and who is free next.
Give customers real arrival windows instead of guesses.
Radio chatter falls off when the office answers its own where-is-everyone questions from the map, so drivers stay on the job.
What Changes
When The Map Is Not Enough
Live visibility answers "where are they." Advanced Routing answers "where should they be." It is a subscription add-on inside MyGeotab, built for light-duty fleets running 5+ stops per driver per day, and it splits the job cleanly.
Builds optimized multi-stop plans against your priorities, using predictive road speeds and driver matching.
Manages the day as it changes: cancellations, emergencies, and the who-takes-this-call decision, in near real time.
Carves service areas so crews stop crossing each other's coverage.
Puts assigned stops in the driver's hands inside Geotab Drive, syncing both ways with Dispatch, so the office and the cab always hold the same plan.
The optimization is economic, not just geometric: fuel cost and vehicle wear factor into route decisions alongside arrival windows. It is the engine behind field service fleets adding stops to the day and storm response dispatch for utility fleets.
The Vendor's Numbers
Geotab's routing playbook claims 15-30% less mileage and 2-3 more jobs per technician per day (Geotab, 2025).
Treat those as the vendor's numbers. We baseline a month of your actual routes and show you your number before you subscribe.
Because routing and telematics live on one platform, every planned route gets compared to what actually happened: planned stops versus completed, planned miles versus driven, planned windows versus arrival times.
Optimization without verification is a brochure. Plan vs Actual is the audit, and it runs automatically.
A closer look
Coordination is not a phone tree. It is one live picture shared by office and field.
A skipped stop flags the same day, so it is rescheduled before it turns up on tomorrow's invoice.
Plans, progress, and completions tracked as the day unfolds.
Off-route detours and long stops show on the map as they happen, not in a week-end report.
Know when vehicles arrive at yards, sites, and customers.
Reach drivers through the Geotab Drive app, not personal texts.
Time-stamped stop records settle disputes before they start.
The coordination hub
Map, exceptions, and today’s plan in a single MyGeotab view.
Zones Do The Work
Customer sites, yards, and home bases become reusable geofences that drive the day's records.
Questions
Live location, trip history, and zones give dispatch accurate ETAs and the context to reroute quickly.
Dispatch resequences or reassigns stops in near real time, and the driver sees the change immediately, so a cancellation or an emergency does not turn into a round of phone calls.
Clearer routing and real-time visibility help teams stay aligned and cut missed or late stops.
No, it is a subscription module on top of MyGeotab. Basic routing is included; the optimization, dispatch, territory, and driver-sync modules are the paid tier. We help you decide with your own baseline data whether the mileage math covers the cost.
Geotab's own fit threshold is quoted in the Advanced Routing section above. Below it, the built-in tools usually carry you. At or above it, sequencing errors compound fast enough to pay for optimization.
No. Assigned routes, same-day changes, and dispatch messages all arrive inside Geotab Drive, the app drivers already use for ELD, HOS, and inspections, and their progress syncs back to Dispatch automatically. There is nothing new to install.
“We have the ProPlus plan so we are able to see second-to-second, turn-by-turn location updates of our trucks in action. It has taken our live dispatch to another level.”Marshalls Locksmith, Raleigh, NC
Keep exploring
Inside MyGeotab
Every arrival and departure logs itself, so no one rebuilds the day from memory or a notebook.
Illustrative MyGeotab screen with fictional data
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