Plowtrak

A short walk through the platform

Everything below is the live system running real records from a full season of work. Nothing here is a mockup.

About 10 minutes

Plowtrak runs a commercial snow and ice operation end to end: what has to be cleared, who is out clearing it, proof that it was done, and the invoice that follows.

There are two pieces. The dispatcher console is the office side — the part you can open right now. The crew app is what the operators carry in the truck; there is a note on it at the bottom.

Start here

Signing in

The main run · six stops

What to look at, in order

Each stop says what to do and what it is meant to demonstrate. Skipping ahead is fine, but the order builds — a route becomes a trip, a trip becomes proof, proof becomes an invoice.

  1. 1

    The live map

    ☰  Menu → Live map

    This is the screen a dispatcher leaves open all night. Trucks appear on the map as they report position, and the numbers across the top — trips running, sites done, sites skipped, texts sent, material spread — move on their own as the night goes.

    When a storm is open, a blue band across the top names it and counts how many routes have been dispatched. Tap a truck to follow it. The map has a satellite view if you want to see what a lot actually looks like.

    What this showsThe office can answer "where is my crew" and "is my lot done yet" without phoning anyone.
    Open the live map →
  2. 2

    A route, and how the night gets planned

    ☰  Menu → Routes

    Open any route from the list. A route is one truck's run: an ordered list of stops, the map of the drive, the operator and vehicle it normally goes to, and what the season is worth in revenue.

    Stops can be dragged into a different order, and Optimize re-sequences them. When a storm hits, Start trip as… sends that route to an operator.

    What this showsThe work is planned once and reused every storm, instead of rebuilt from memory at 3am.
    Open routes →
  3. 3

    A finished trip — the important one

    ☰  Menu → Trips

    Open a completed trip. You get the full record of that run: every stop in order, when the truck arrived and left, how long it sat there, what was done, and photos the operator took on site. Anything skipped carries the operator's reason.

    The Trail panel draws the GPS track of the whole run on a map.

    What this showsThis is the answer to a customer who says the lot was never touched — arrival time, time on site, and a photo, per visit. It is the part of the product that settles arguments.
    Open trips →
  4. 4

    A customer and their site

    ☰  Menu → Customers

    Open a customer, then one of their sites. The site is where the operational detail lives: the geofence that decides automatically when a truck has arrived, the priority (a medical clinic is zero-tolerance, a warehouse is not), and the instructions the operator sees on their screen when they pull in.

    What this showsSite knowledge sits in the system rather than in one long-serving driver's head.
    Open customers →
  5. 5

    Billing a storm

    ☰  Menu → Invoices

    Open an invoice. Each line traces back to visits that actually happened, priced off that customer's contract — seasonal flat rate, per push, per inch banded by snowfall, per event, or time and materials. HST is applied, and the customer gets a link to pay online.

    What this showsThe billing comes out of the operational record automatically. This is where the hours come back.
    Open invoices →
  6. 6

    Reports and proof of service

    ☰  Menu → Reports

    The operator scorecard compares crews across a period. Materials by site shows where the salt went. The SMS log is every message sent to a customer, and whether it landed.

    From here you can also pull a proof of service sheet for a single site — every visit in the period with times and photos, formatted to print and send.

    What this showsThe season's work exports as evidence — for a renewal conversation, an insurance claim, or a slip-and-fall.
    Open reports →
If you have longer

Four more worth opening

Storms

Every storm of the season, what it cost to service, and one button to invoice all of it.

Contracts

The five pricing models side by side, with the renewal dates they run on.

Fleet & users

Trucks and tractors, and the staff accounts attached to them.

Settings

Company profile, tax numbers, storm automation, the customer text templates, and an audit log of who changed what. Read-only on your account.

The other half

What the crew carries

The operator app

Operators don't touch the console. They run a separate app on a phone or tablet mounted in the cab, built for cold hands and a moving truck: large buttons, one stop at a time.

  1. Sign in, see tonight's route.
  2. Press Start — the office sees the truck go live.
  3. Drive to the stop; the map shows the next one.
  4. Arriving inside the geofence is detected automatically.
  5. Take a photo, mark what was done, or skip with a reason.
  6. Next stop, until the route is finished.

It works with no signal. Everything the operator does is queued on the device and syncs the moment the truck is back in coverage — which matters, because the worst roads are usually the ones without bars.

Worth knowing: this is the one piece you can't open from this link. The app is complete and its Android build is configured; producing the first installable build is the remaining step.