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The dead-zone audit.

Map every spot on your routes where the field app fails, in one afternoon, using nothing but your drivers and airplane mode.

6 sections, printable11 checks595 words, start to finishFree with your email

Before the gate

What this is.

Every fleet has a map it never wrote down: the spots where the signal dies and the field app quits with it. The back lot behind the recycling yard. The new development off the county road. The stretch of highway where one carrier works and the other does not.

Your drivers already know every one of these spots. They hit them every week. This audit gets that map out of their heads and onto one page, so you can see how often "the app needs signal" is actually costing you, and so you can hand any vendor a real test instead of a brochure.

It takes an afternoon. You need a phone, airplane mode, and ten minutes each with the drivers who run your routes.

What is inside

The whole audit, section by section.

6 sections, listed below with what each one holds. Every count on this page is read out of the document itself, so what you see here is what lands when you unlock it.

Contents6 sections / 11 checks / 595 words
01Ask each driver where they lose signalSit down with each driver for ten minutes.
02Sort the spots by how often you send a truck thereNext to each spot, write roughly how many times a week a truck is there.
03Run the airplane-mode test at your worst spots5 checks. Take your current app to the top three spots on the list, or fake them with airplane mode if you cannot get out there.
04Add up what each failing spot costs4 checks. For every spot that failed the test, write down what actually happens there today.
05Take the list to any vendor and make them prove it2 checks. The list is now a test no brochure can pass.
06What to do with the auditKeep the page.

Sample

Read a section before you decide.

This is section 3 of 6, reproduced from the audit exactly as it appears in the document. Nothing in the box was rewritten for this page.

The rest is the same shape: 6 sections and about 595 words in total. If the box below is not worth an email address to you, the other sections will not change that, and that is a fair answer.

Section 3 of 6

Run the airplane-mode test at your worst spots

Take your current app to the top three spots on the list, or fake them with airplane mode if you cannot get out there. Turn airplane mode on before you open the app. Then do the real work a driver does:

  • Open the app cold. Does today's job list load, or do you get a spinner?
  • Mark a stop complete. Does it confirm right away, or wait for a connection?
  • Attach a photo. Saved, or stuck?
  • Capture a signature. Same test.
  • Turn airplane mode off. Does the held-up work sync on its own, or did some of it disappear?

Reproduced from the audit. The other 5 sections follow the same format.

You get a map

Every spot on your routes where the signal dies, named by the drivers who hit them every week.

You get it ranked

Each spot against how often a truck is there, so you know which dead zones cost you and which ones do not.

You get a test a brochure cannot pass

Airplane-mode checks and the sync questions to run live on a call, instead of watching a demo on hotel wifi.

Get the audit.

Free, printable, yours to keep. The email is the whole ask: no truck count, no company name, nothing else is collected here.

Your address goes on the founding-operator list, which is how the founder reaches operators directly. Reply to any message to come off it. The audit stays yours either way.

More free downloads

Five more, same deal.

Each one is a landing page like this: contents shown up front, one email, document unlocked. Take what applies to your yard.

The multi-asset operator workflow auditA one-page self-audit for operators running two or more asset types out of one business. See whether your dispatch setup is quietly costing you jobs, hours, and drivers.Read the page
Before you switch dispatch tools: the checklistMost operators get burned by the same mistakes when they change dispatch software. Here is how you avoid them.Read the page
The offline-first field app guideThe plain-English guide to what offline-first really means, why offline-tolerant is not the same thing, and the five-minute airplane-mode test to run on any app before you trust it.Read the page
What to charge: a pricing framework for multi-asset operatorsStop pricing off gut and the cheapest shop in the county. Build your number from your own costs, in an afternoon.Read the page
The customer-comms swipe fileThe texts and emails that stop the "where is my driver" calls. Copy, fill in the blanks, send.Read the page

No email required

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