Route Deviation
System

Route deviation systems are a part of route planning or route management solutions in fleet management software.

The larger route planning solutions help fleet managers plan the most efficient route for their vehicles from start to end point of deliveries. Within that larger solution, route deviation helps them know whenever drivers have deviated from the pre-assigned route through real-time tracking and alerts.

Route planning solutions help determine the best path for a fleet in terms of time, traffic, fuel, and route safety. Therefore, frequent deviation from a set route cause fleets to:

- Consume more fuel than planned, ruining the strategised fuel economy
- Waste time on deliveries by taking routes that will be time-consuming or traffic-ridden
- Be prone to theft and misconduct when fragile or vulnerable consignment enters unsafe areas

Moreover, drivers might deviate from the set route to make unauthorised use of the fleet. Such use will be considered pilferage and will cost the fleet precious resources.

Route management solutions can be decided into 3 problem-solving segments:

- Route planning
- Route tracking
- Route deviation

Therefore, route deviation is a big part of route planning solutions. It is one of the three biggest problems that are solved with route planning solutions of any vehicle tracking software.

Ideally, you should use whatever GPS tracking software you use to track and manage your vehicles to track incidents of route deviations in your fleet. It isn't sustainable to use specialised software for route deviations.

However, if you don't already use a software solution to track your vehicles, you should try TrackoBit. The software is extremely flexible, robust, and accurate. Therefore, while managing route deviations with TrackoBit, you can be sure that you will get an alert as soon as a driver deviates from their path.

The best fleet management software offers route optimisation solutions. These solutions are equivalent to route planning solutions and help managers plan, track, and manage routes according to various resource optimisation metrics such as time, fuel, and safety. Once a manager has set a path with route optimisation software, any deviations from it would be reported promptly.

No! If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

Zero route planning will get you nowhere. At least when your drivers deviate, you know where they went and how you can mitigate the damage.

Also, route planning is the first step. Now, if your drivers deviate from the planned path, you can enforce strict policies or train them better. However, without route planning solutions, you will have nothing to work on, and nowhere to go in terms of productivity and efficiency.

Since customizability and flexibility are two of TrackoBit’s biggest virtues, you can get whatever alerts you want from the software. However, these are some basic alerts that TrackoBit offers when your driver has deviated from the route:

- Instant notification
- Deviation alarm
- Notification after crossing some distance

The primary technology that helps fleet managers detect any route deviations is GPS tracking. However, just installing GPS tracker devices to your system will not cut it either. You will need the GPS tracker hardware and GPS tracking software with a robust route planning solution to effectively detect route deviation in your fleet.

Here are a couple of things that you can get with TrackoBit while employing route deviation tools that no one else will offer:

- Trip schedule deviation alerts
- Deviated route and time spent

Other than this, our system is so flexible that whatever route deviation solutions your business requires, we’ll offer them to you without any issues.