The Loadman Meter in your Trucks has an option that allows it to send GPS coordinates along with every LoadData record. If you have this option, the GPS data can be used to identify the Customer for each load. The Driver does not have to select the account at the meter.

Setup:
In order for this to function, the following steps must be accomplished...

• GeoFence Loads must be enabled. This will add a new account called "GEO-FENCE LOAD" to every Route (more on this below).
• Go to Select Latitude/Longitude Mode and select the difference that is tolerated when attempting to match latitude/longitude to a Service, called the match range. At first one should probably just keep the default. You can also select the way you want to see latitude/longitude displayed.
• Each Service entry in the database must have a valid latitude and longitude.

1. If you happen to have a database with the latitude/longitude of all of your Customers, contact us and we can help you get the data imported into your Loadman Fleet Manager database. Of course this is the easiest. But, most of the time the data is not available.
2. Create a Route. Have the Driver select Customers from a downloaded Route as she makes her collections. This associates the Lat/Lon of the collection point with the Route Stop. Then the Loadman Fleet Manager operator can assign the Lat/Lon to the Services. See assigning Service latitiude/longitude by running a Route. This is probably the best choice if #1 is not possible.
3. Have the Driver just run the Route without having it in the meter and then view each load location on a map and assign it to a Service. For details,see assigning Service latitude/longitude by viewing loads on a map. This will give the same results as #2 if you know where each of your Customers is located.
4. Use the maps software's geocoding to compute the latitude/longitude from the address. For details,see getting the latitude/longitude from the address. This may give a good starting point for some of your accounts but will probably not succeed for all addresses. Problems include having an address that the map software cannot process or a location where the GPS coordinates of the address is significantly different than the coordinates where the acutal loading takes place.
5. Directly indicate the location of each Service by clicking it's map location. For details,see indicating the latitude/longitude by clicking the map. This works good if you know the location of all of your accounts and may be useful for correcting any problems with the above methods.

• Not Detected (displayed as blank): This means that GeoFencing has not been attempted on this entry.
• No Lat Lon: GeoFencing was not possible because latitude/longitude was not included in this record.
• Detected OK: GeoFencing was a success. There was only one possible match.
• Used Best Match: Dectection was a success. There were multiple possible matches within the match range. The closest was selected.
• No Match Found: GeoFencing failed. There were no Services within the match range.

• Loads are marked Not Detected (or blank): This is caused by...
  • The Driver did not select the "GEO-FENCE LOAD" account when collecting the load.
  • The load has been edited and the Service was manually changed since it was GeoFenced.
  • The load was collected before you setup GeoFencing.
  A possible remedy is to manually perform GeoFencing. Select one or more loads, open the context menu, and select Detect account using GeoFence.
• Loads are marked No Lat Lon: This means that the data being received from the meter does not contain latitude/longitude data. See the LoadMan meter users manual.
• Loads are marked No Match Found or the wrong account was detected. This is caused by errors in the setup (the latitude/longitude assigned to each Service) or bad data from the meter. To correct this, one can view and/or change the load and assignment to a Service.