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Route optimization

Your crew gets paid to work,not to drive.

Lead Dog tells you which crew should take a new job based on their capacity and where they already are, sequences everyone's stops in the order that wastes the least time, then hands the driver turn-by-turn navigation. Same stops, less town crossed, more daylight left for work.

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20–30% less drive timeGoogle, Apple & Mapbox
Tuesday · 8 stops · one crew

Watch the day untangle itself.

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Miles driven58 mi
Behind the wheel2h 55m
Stops that fit the day6 of 8
Fuel burned$21

Same eight properties. Same crew. 16 fewer miles and 50 minutes back — every single day.

Assigning new work

Who should take this one?

A new job comes in unassigned. Instead of guessing — or giving it to whoever comes to mind first — Lead Dog shows you which crew actually has room and who's already working nearby.

The wrong crew costs you twice.

Hand a job to a crew that's already full and it slips to next week. Hand it to one working the other side of town and you've paid for forty minutes of driving before anyone picks up a tool. Lead Dog weighs both before you commit.

Ranks crews by remaining capacity that day
Shows how far the job is from where they're already working
Flags the best fit, but the call is still yours
Assign it and their route re-sequences around the new stop
Do the maths on your own fleet

What is windshield time costing you?

Drag the sliders to match your operation. These are estimates, not promises — but the shape of the number is usually the surprise.

Assumes a 25% reduction in miles (the middle of the 20–30% range crews typically see), 12 mpg, 35 mph average in-town speed and 250 working days a year. Fuel only — this doesn't count maintenance, tyres or the extra jobs you could fit in.

Every year, you'd get back

Miles not driven16,875
Hours off the road482
Fuel saved$4,922

Those hours are the real number. At an average job value, a crew that gets two extra hours a week back is a crew that can take on more work without another truck.

Dispatch

The right crew, in the right order.

Routing isn't just about distance. Lead Dog builds each crew's day around who's assigned, how long each job actually takes, and where they already are — then gives you an honest total duration so you know what fits before you promise it.

Best-fit crew suggested for anything still unassigned
Every assigned job sequenced automatically
Estimated total duration before you commit to the day
Add an emergency call and the rest of the day resettles
One tap hands the driver turn-by-turn navigation
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Lead Dog dispatch board with each crew's day sequenced
Built with the best

Three mapping engines doing the hard part

Lead Dog combines industry-leading mapping platforms to sequence stops, predict real drive times and guide crews with precision.

Apple Maps

Real-world drive times feed the schedule, and turn-by-turn navigation launches straight from the job without retyping an address.

Google Maps

Google's traffic intelligence gives accurate ETAs and live conditions, so the plan reflects the roads as they are this morning.

Mapbox

Mapbox handles the heavy lifting behind the scenes — batch scheduling, multi-stop routing and distance maths, done before you open the app.

Straight answers

Questions contractors ask

No. Lead Dog takes every job assigned to a crew for that day and generates the most time-efficient order automatically. You can still drag a stop if a customer needs a specific window, and the rest of the day resettles around it.
Crews typically see 20–30% less drive time, and the tighter your stops are clustered the better it gets. The honest answer is that it depends on how spread out your work is — the estimator above lets you run your own numbers.
For anything still unassigned, Lead Dog ranks your crews by how much capacity they have left that day and how close the job is to where they're already working, then flags the best fit. You can override it — it's a recommendation, not a rule — and once you assign it, that crew's route re-sequences around the new stop.
Drop it into the day and the remaining stops reorder around it, with an updated total duration so you can see immediately what still fits and what needs moving to tomorrow.
Whichever they already know. Routes hand off to Apple Maps or Google Maps in one tap, so there's nothing new for the crew to learn and no addresses to retype at the wheel.
Yes. Each crew gets their own sequenced day based on the jobs assigned to them, and you can see all of them from the office without calling anyone to ask where they are.
Every feature is in every plan, starting at $39 a month. Route optimisation isn't held back for a higher tier.
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Get an hour back.
Every truck. Every day.

Routes sequenced automatically, navigation handed to the driver — from $39 a month.

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