2024 Route4Me Release Notes & Product Updates

The Activity Feed interface has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to navigate, customize, filter, and export activities.

Open Your Account Activity Feed

The Notifications History page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to review and track notifications.

Open Your Notifications History

The Custom Note Fields page and editor have been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to create and manage custom notes.

Open Your Custom Note Fields

The Team Management and User Editor interfaces have been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to manage users and switch between hierarchical or table views.

Open Your Users Page

The Order Custom Fields interface has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to manage and customize fields.

Open Your Custom Order Fields

The Recurring Routes schedule editor and management interfaces have been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to create and manage recurring routes.

Open Your Recurring Routes Page

The Commercial Vehicle Profiles interface has been updated for a smoother, more intuitive experience when adding and managing vehicles.

Open Your Vehicles List

The Vehicle Capacity Profiles interface has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to manage capacities for mixed fleet route planning.

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The Vehicles page and Vehicle Editor have been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to add and manage vehicles.

Open Your Vehicles List

The new Destinations View Mode in the Routes List lets you group destinations by multiple parameters for deeper analysis of performance metrics, customer trends, and vehicle utilization.

Open Your Routes Page

The Telematics Connections interface has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience and is now located in Account Settings, where you can track synchronized vehicles and manage connections more easily.

Open Your Telematics Connections

The Return To Sender feature makes it easy to return incorrect or damaged orders by assigning the status through a simple barcode scan in the Route4Me Mobile App.

The Routes Map interface has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making route navigation and management more intuitive.

Open Your Routes Page

The Sign-In History page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to review and navigate sign-in activity.

Open Your Account Sign-In History

The Export History page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to manage and track exported files.

Open Your Export History

The Account Settings page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to navigate and adjust your account settings.

Open Your Account Settings

The Workflows page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to create and manage tasks.

Open Your Workflows

The Optimization Profiles page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience, making it easier to create and manage optimization profiles.

Open Your Optimization Profiles

The Driver Rating page has been updated to match Route4Me’s modern user experience and design standards, making it easier to view and manage driver ratings.

Open Driver Ratings Dashboard

Order Groups have been moved to the Orders Page for easier access and efficiency. You can now create orders, group them, and route Order Groups from one place.

Open Your Orders Page

Order Territories have been moved to the Orders Page for easier access. You can now create orders and territories, and route Order Territories all from one place.

Open Your Orders Page

A map has been added to the Orders page, making it easy to visualize orders, select them directly from the map, create territories, and plan Order Territory routes.

Open Your Orders Page

A new History section has been added to individual orders, allowing you to view all historical activity, such as when an order was created or routed. Order History makes it easy to track every action throughout the order’s lifecycle.

Open Your Orders Page

The Routes List now includes a flexible data table with adjustable column widths, allowing you to customize how routes are displayed for better visibility and organization.

Open Your Routes Page

The new Cross Border Routing feature lets you plan routes that either cross country borders or remain within them. It helps prevent routes near borders from unintentionally crossing into another country.

Open Your Route Planner

In addition to syncing vehicles, you can now sync customer data from your telematics provider, with automatic imports to streamline route planning. Customer Zones and associated custom data are automatically imported and kept up to date in your Route4Me account.

Open Your Telematics Connections

Route4Trucks Enterprise is now available for businesses and enterprises. Managers can add commercial vehicles with custom parameters, assign them to users and facilities, and dispatch routes. Drivers start and navigate dispatched commercial routes simply by scanning the assigned vehicle’s license plate in the mobile app.

Download Android Truck App

The Global Menu has been redesigned to make navigation easier, free up more screen space, and organize options more logically.

Same-Side Routing lets you plan routes that visit destinations on only the left or right side of the route. It’s ideal for businesses with specialized vehicles, equipment, or services that require one-side stops.

The Facilities feature lets you map your business locations – including depots, warehouses, offices, stores, and distribution centers – and link users, vehicles, routes, and other assets for advanced analytics and reporting.

Open Your Facilities Page

The Route Compliance GPS Tracking feature makes it easy to spot route deviations. You can view on the map which routes were followed, where deviations occurred, and which stops were missed.

With the new Mandatory Navigation feature, Route4Me Mobile ensures drivers follow routes exactly as planned on the Web Platform. Mobile directions may still vary due to factors like traffic, but this feature keeps the planned sequence and stops intact. You can enable Mandatory Navigation through your Advanced Configuration settings.

Open Advanced Configuration Editor

The Operations Matrix interface has been updated for a smoother experience. It now features a horizontal layout for route progress, visual status indicators for each destination, color coding, and more intuitive icons.

The Route Editor now supports more data types and detailed route exports, including additional fields and columns like GPS tracking and proof of visit collection. You can view theses updates in the destination information, route export, and dashboard sections of the Route Editor.

The Routes List now includes a “Group By” menu to quickly organize routes by status, start date, and other categories.

Open Your Routes Page

We’ve also added new filters to help you easily find and manage routes across different data columns.

You can now use High-Density Routing to plan large, dense routes without overlap. It clusters destinations and distributes workloads efficiently across multiple routes, even at scale.

You can now combine Mixed Fleet Routing with Driver Skills. This enhancement helps you better optimize team parameters to maximum capacity and make the most out of your resources and assets.

Open Your Users Page

You can now add Vehicle Attributes along with Driver Skills to match each stop with vehicles that have the necessary capabilities and drivers who have the right skills. Pair them with Mixed Fleet Routing to optimize even the most complex routes in seconds.

Open Your Vehicles Page

Route4Me now highlights destinations visited out of their planned sequence in red on the Routes Map and Route Editor, making deviations easy to spot.

Open Your Routes Map

Destinations visited outside of their planned Time Windows now appear in red on the Routes Map and in the Route Editor, making it easy to identify Time Window violations.

Driver breaks can now be added during route optimization. You can automatically insert Driver Breaks into routes with Optimization Profiles or enable them when planning routes with manual optimization settings.

Just specify your preferred settings, and the system will place breaks in the optimal sequence.

Open Your Optimization Profiles

Route simulation is now available in the Route Editor, making it easy to simulate routes in real-time before starting them.

The Route Editor user interface was updated for easier navigation, destination management, and route settings adjustments.

In addition, the Route Editor Activity Feed now includes more details, such as proof of delivery, signatures, and image data.

“Bulk Actions” was added to the Routes List menu to simplify bulk route management. You can now select multiple routes and apply the same actions to all of them at once.

Open Your Routes Page