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How to Assign Shipments to Route/Driver

adfBefore you optimize your shipments you need to assign them to a driver/route. To do this, please do the following:

  1. Import your shipments into IDS Route. For more information, please see: How to Import Shipments into IDS Route

  2. Your shipments will now appear on the bottom of the screen

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  3. Highlight all your shipments.

  4. Then right click your mouse

  5. and select “Allocate Driver”

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  6. A dropdown will appear in the “Drivers” column

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  7. select a driver/route from the dropdown

  8. Once you have selected your driver/route, all the shipments will be updated with your selection.

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How to Route Optimize Shipments

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Once you have assigned your shipments, you can now Optimize them. To do this, please do the following.

  1. Select how you wish to optimize your shipments by ticking the boxes located across the bottom of the map

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  2. Then select your shipments from the bottom of the screen

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  3. Then click the “Route” button located on the top of the screen

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  4. Once your shipments have been optimized a pop up will appear.

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How to Add/Hide Columns

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  1. Click on the “View Settings” button in the Toolbar

  2. This will open up the “View Settings” tab

  3. To add a column to the shipment list tick the box beside it’s label

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  4. To remove a column to the shipment list untick the box beside its label

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  5. You can also untick all the columns by clicking the “select none” button

  6. Likewise, you can tick all the columns by clicking the “Select All” button

  7. When you are done, click the “Save Columns” button

  8. This will bring you back to the main window of the Route tab.

  9. If you need to make further changes, click on the “Settings” tab header

  10. This will bring you back to the “Settings” Screen.

  11. When you are done, on the “Settings” Screen, click on the close button.

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  1. This will will open the following dropdown

  2. Road View is the default view.

  3. If you click on “Aerial” you will see an aerial or satellite view

  4. If you click on “Bird’s Eye”, you will see a 3D Image based view

  5. If you click on “Streetside”, you can drop a “person” onto a blue line on a street to see the street view

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  6. To close “Birds Eye” or “Streetside” views, click on the X located in the top right of the map

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  7. In “Aerial” and “Bird’s Eye” views you can turn off labels by sliding the “Label” slider to the left

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  8. In “Aerial” and “Bird’s Eye” views you can turn back on labels by sliding the “Label” slider to the right

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To center the map to your “general” location, click the “Locate Me” button

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There are two ways to zoom in:

  1. Clicking the Zoom In button.

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  2. If your mouse has a wheel, scroll the wheel away from you.

There are two ways to zoom out:

  1. Clicking the Zoom Out button

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  2. If your mouse has a wheel, scroll the wheel towards you.

To move around the map:

  1. Left click your mouse and hold

  2. While continuing to hold down the left button on your mouse, move your mouse.

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Toolbar Buttons

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