Schedule & Dispatch Settings

Open Admin > Settings > Schedule & Dispatch to control the defaults used by the dispatch board.

The settings surface now sits inside the refreshed blue/slate admin workspace and uses the same card styling as the rest of /admin, but the underlying controls and dispatch behavior are unchanged.

Shop / Yard Address

Set the address your routes should start from. If you also enter latitude and longitude, the route map can anchor the shop marker more accurately.

Use this for:

• The start point on the route map
• Google route timing and map fitting on the day board
• Distance heuristics when ordering stops before a saved route exists
• Keeping routes centered around the right yard or office

CE Pro now validates these values before saving. Invalid latitude or longitude values are rejected instead of silently saving bad route origins.

Truck Capacity

Truck Capacity (Hours) defines how many scheduled hours CE Pro treats as a full day for one truck.

The daily and weekly boards use this number to show:

• Capacity bars
• Near-capacity warnings
• Best-fit suggestions for unassigned jobs

Dispatch settings also validate truck capacity more strictly now. Capacity must be a real number between 1 and 24 hours.

Crew Pay on Schedule

Turn on Crew pay on schedule if you want the schedule board to show the revenue-to-pay breakdown directly on truck routes and weekly planning cells.

When enabled, CE Pro shows:

• Crew pay total
• Lead share
• Technician share
• Solo-day payout behavior

Auto-Optimize on Assign

Turn on Auto-optimize on assign if you want CE Pro to rebuild the route order when a job is dropped onto a truck.

Leave it off if your dispatcher prefers to place jobs first and optimize later by hand.

When the live map is available, CE Pro also saves stop order, drive minutes, drive miles, and arrival timing back into dispatch records after optimization so the next load uses the same route timing.

If your workspace is still missing the newer dispatch columns, saving this card now returns a direct migration/setup message instead of a raw database error.

Related Guides

• Learn the daily workflow in Schedule and Dispatch.
• Learn how the truck list feeds dispatch in Managing Trucks.