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).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.
- Message dispatch from the active job. See Messages & Broadcasts.
- Works offline. Uploads queue when service drops and send when it returns.
Find your way around
The bottom bar holds up to five tabs. Which tabs a user sees depends on their role. When a user has more than five, the bar shows the first four in this order: Assigned, Dispatch, History, Messages, Review, Live Map, Account. A More tab follows. More opens the rest — for example Live Map and Account. A badge on More counts unread messages on the tabs inside it.
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.
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
- Android
3
Accept the day's jobs
Assigned jobs appear in the Assigned menu. Tap View Request → Accept on each. Declined jobs return to dispatch.
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.
5
Capture the ticket
On loaded, snap a photo of the scale ticket. OCR fills the ticket number and quantity. Confirm or edit.If the photo looks blurry, Tread shows Photo quality warning. Tap Retake photo for a clearer shot, or Use anyway. A clear photo lets Tread read the ticket for you.If your company has the Adjust photo screen, drag the corners to the edges of the ticket and tap Use photo. Tap Rotate to turn it, or Use full photo to skip cropping.Quantities accept a comma or a period as the decimal — 29,39 saves as 29.39. A ton quantity of 100 or more shows Double-check the quantity before you save.Wrong photo? Retake it before you submit. The new photo replaces the old one.
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.
7
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.
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.