01Stops and their order
Add properties to the route and move them up or down. That order is what the operator sees in the truck. The route page also shows what it brings in this season in signed seasonal contracts, and how many of its stops have no signed contract. A route you no longer use is deactivated from its page: it leaves the operator’s phone and upcoming operations, its past visits remain, and one click reactivates it. During an outing, it cannot be deactivated.
02Ask for a better order
“Suggest a better order” works out the trip with the least driving. Poudra shows you the gain — “16 min instead of 30” — and you decide: nothing is reordered without your click. The first stop stays first; you decide where the route starts.
03Access notes and photos
On the customer’s page, each property has its access notes, obstacles and up to eight reference photos. The operator reads them before pulling into the driveway, in “View property”: the outline you draw is shown there, and the photos stay readable without a network. On the Map page, you draw a property’s limits by clicking its corners — Poudra works out its area — and you sort your properties into sectors that you draw the same way. In the list of located properties, “Show on map” frames the map on the property — its outline if it has one, its pin otherwise — without changing anything; “Move on the map” moves its pin with one click at the right spot, leaving its outline alone; “Redraw” starts the outline over. “Zones” marks on the property what a replacement driver needs to know: pick a type — Push snow here, Do not clear, Fire hydrant, Fire lane, Obstacle, Entrance / access, Other —, a label if you like (required for “Other”), then one click for a point, or one click per vertex for a line or an area, and “Save the zone”. Each type is drawn its own way: a fire hydrant is a point, a snow dump an area. A zone can be renamed or deleted; none is required. Zones show on the map, on the customer’s page and on the operator’s property plan, with their legend; a deactivated property no longer shows them.