Scheduling and dispatch software built around trucks

A row for each truck down the side and the hours of your work day across the top, with a red line at the current time. Each truck's row header shows its crew ("Carlos & Andre"), what is booked ("$855 booked · 6 of 9.8 h") and a capacity bar that only changes colour when the truck is over.

• Day, Week and Map views. The week view shows each truck's jobs, dollars and hours per day, tinted by how full it is.
• The tray under the board groups waiting work into Plan visits due, To rebook and Other jobs.
• Drag and drop on a computer: move a job along its row, to another truck, or from the tray onto a truck. Times snap to 15 minutes.
• On a phone, the board becomes a list: waiting jobs first, then one card per truck, each with a Schedule button.
• Jobs whose crew is on the way, working or done are locked, and the board says why.

Every drop opens a short confirmation ("Move Patricia Owens to Truck 2, Thu, Nov 5, 1-3 PM?") with warnings that never block you: an overlap, a truck over its hours, a crew member off that day. A ticked box tells the customer the new time by email.

Yes. The Map view numbers each truck's stops in the order they are scheduled, in the truck's colour, and draws the route along the roads with the drive time and miles for each leg and the whole day ("3h 10m driving · 84 mi"). Quote appointments are white pins, and jobs still waiting in the tray are grey pins, so you can spot one that fits near a route.

If a road route can't be worked out for a day, Birdy shows a straight-line estimate and labels it "Straight-line estimate", drawn dashed, rather than pretend. The Day board also shows the drive between stops, and crews see the same numbered map on their phones.

• Search the map by name, street or city. Hide a truck to read one route at a time.
• Customers → Map shows every customer, with "Customers nearby" to fill a street once you're already there.
• Each address opens in the phone's own maps app for turn-by-turn directions.

Birdy draws the route in the order you scheduled it. It does not reorder your stops for you yet. Our guide to route density covers how to book work so routes stay tight.

Click Move them on the rainy day. Birdy picks the jobs the forecast puts at risk, finds each truck's next open day (skipping days that are full, off or also wet), and moves them. One email tells each customer their new time, about 10 minutes after the last move, and an Undo line stays up for 10 minutes. See the rain day rescheduling guide.

The forecast is the National Weather Service hourly forecast, refreshed every three hours for the ZIP codes you have jobs in. Only the ZIP code is used: no customer address leaves Birdy. Nothing moves by itself. The day line says "Thu: Rain 70% after 1 PM · 4 jobs at risk", the owner's morning email carries a weather card, and you decide.

Each truck has hours a day, the length of your work day by default. Approved time off takes a person's share away, and a blocked day ("Truck in the shop") takes it to zero. Booked hours are the jobs' lengths. The board, the week tints and the schedule dialog all show it, and they warn when a truck would go over, without stopping you.

The same numbers feed your online booking page and pick-a-time links, which only offer times a crew can really do, and keep a share of each day free for phone bookings.