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The Tread Driver App puts a Driver’s dispatches, tickets, and signatures on one phone. Dispatchers see progress in real time instead of calling for updates.

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Who it’s for

Drivers — the users who receive a dispatch and perform it. That includes your own Internal Drivers, Shared Drivers (Drivers another account shares to you), and Owner-Operators (O&O — a Vendor with a single Driver, dispatched directly as a Shared Driver).

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Key features

  • Accept jobs and see the full day’s assignments before the first run.
  • Auto-start and auto-end on geofences (a virtual fence around a site).
  • Capture scale tickets by photo. OCR pre-fills the load fields.
  • Capture e-signatures by shift, job, or load as required.
  • Works offline. Uploads queue when service drops and send when it returns.

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Walkthrough

1

Sign in

Download Tread from the App Store or Google Play, or go to link.tread.io/app from any phone. Sign in with the phone number on the driver’s user record — no password. Tread texts a one-time code to finish sign-in. See Adding Drivers.
Enter phone numberEnter verification code
2

Enable location permissions

Tread tracks driver location only while a job is active. No tracking occurs outside of active jobs. Allow location access when prompted.
iOS: enable location permissionsiOS: all permissions enabled
3

Accept the day's jobs

Assigned jobs appear in the Assigned menu. Tap View Request → Accept on each. Declined jobs return to dispatch.
Assigned menu: View RequestJob detail: Accept
4

Start the run

When Telematics integrations enabled, Tread auto-starts when the truck enters the pickup geofence. The driver can also press Start to start their jobs.Job detail: Start
5

Capture the ticket

On loaded, snap a photo of the scale ticket. OCR fills the ticket number and quantity. Confirm or edit.Wrong photo? Retake it before you submit. The new photo replaces the old one.
Active job: Add Ticket buttonTicket form: photo and fields
6

End the load

When the job has a set load count or quantity, Tread auto-ends it when the truck leaves the drop-off geofence. The driver can also press Stop Job, confirm the prompt, then review and tap Submit.
Stop Job button on active jobReview and Confirm: Submit
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Sign and close out

At end of shift the driver can sign a load. Foremen or customers can sign per job or per load. See Driver E-Signatures.
Getting too many texts? Drivers open Account → Notifications in the app and uncheck the SMS alerts they don’t want. If the boxes are greyed out, push notifications are off for that driver. Drivers can still turn off SMS alerts from this screen.

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Onboard your fleet

Driver adoption is a change-management problem, not a technology problem. Train in person and track adoption in Tread.
1

Train one crew at a time

Walk drivers through the app in person. Avoid email-only rollouts.
2

Keep tickets and signatures in the app

Tickets and signatures come from the app. No paper backup.
3

Coach weekly

Review missing tickets and signature gaps in Tread each week. Coach the drivers who lag.
4

Expand at 90% adoption

Once the first crew captures 90% of its tickets in the app, roll out to the next.