Driver Capabilities Setup

Compliance with transportation industry regulations is a common battle with most delivery companies. As X Dispatch was designed by professionals with real-world experiences in the industry, there are many tools that can assist with driver compliance. One such tool is the capability to enable Driver Capabilities. Each driver can be edited and set to only the capabilities in which they are certified to handle:

The Capabilities list is simply the list of items located in 'Maintenance->Items'. Simply check all of the capabilities that the driver can perform. If an order is dispatched to a driver contains an item in which the driver is not capable of servicing, the dispatch will be either warned and allowed to dispatch, or will be forced to choose another driver. You can either warn about or enforce the capabilities from the 'Dispatch' tab in the global 'Options':

Dispatch Capabilities

We've designed X Dispatch so that it is flexible enough to grow with your ever changing business environment. As you begin to perform new types of services, new order types, rates, and items need to be added to your system. If you are utilizing 'Driver Capabilities', it would be a long and tedious process to update every driver and add a new global capability. For this reason, we've created the 'Dispatch Capabilities' tool located in the 'Action' menu to easily add a capability to all drivers:

The list of all capabilities will be displayed. Simply click on the capability you'd like to add to all of the drivers:

Once the capability has been added, a verification message will be displayed at the bottom of the form: