Routing

For dispatch & planners · turning orders into truck loads

Routing is where Atlas groups candidate orders into loadouts — truck loads that respect weight limits, drive time and each customer's rules. This page covers reviewing candidates, launching a run, and reading the results.

1. Review the candidates

Open Routing from the role nav. Candidates are grouped by client in a collapsible table. Only orders that are valid for routing and fall inside their scheduled shipping window appear here — floor stock is the exception and can bypass the window when the floor toggle is on.

Use the column controls to show or hide fields; a full-screen board isn't much use if the columns you care about are off the edge.

2. Launch a run

Press Run route. A few things to know:

• One run at a time, for everyone. Atlas allows a single routing job across the whole team. If someone else is running, you'll see the job in progress rather than a second run starting. This keeps two people from routing the same orders into different trucks.
• The run happens in the background with a live status. You don't have to wait on the page.
• The department in your header is stamped on the job so history shows who launched it.

flowchart TD
    A[Candidates on the board] --> B{Run route}
    B --> C[Stage 1: group by coil & customer]
    C --> D[Stage 2: fill trucks to weight & drive-time limits]
    D --> E[Loadouts]
    D --> F[Unrouted, with a reason]

3. Read the results

When the run finishes you get loadouts and, usually, some unrouted orders. Unrouted isn't a failure — it's Atlas telling you why something couldn't go:

Reason	What it means
UNDER_MIN_WEIGHT	The group is below the truck's minimum weight. Atlas never ships under the minimum.
COIL_EXCEEDS_TRAILER	A single coil is heavier than the trailer can carry — it can't be split to fit.
EXCEEDS_DRIVE_TIME	The load's total drive time (driving + stops) is over the truck's limit.
LATE_UNROUTED	A late order that also falls below minimum weight — left for a human call.

Force a route when you know better

On the unrouted view you can tick a check to force an order through — per item or for a whole bucket. Overweight loads get split, or moved to a dedicated truck. The minimum-weight rule is the one guardrail that always stays on.

Scoring

Each completed run is scored and the grade rides along with the loadout, so you can glance at Routing history and see how well a run packed the trucks without opening every load.

Next

Head to Loadouts to approve what the run produced.