Every bin has a location, a customer, a site and a clock
When a driver marks a delivery complete, the bin's location becomes that site and the clock
starts. When it is collected, the clock stops and the bin returns to the yard as available stock.
Nobody types any of this, it is a by-product of the driver doing the job.
The bin locator: every bin on a map
The bin locator is a map of your whole fleet on the ground. Every bin you have dropped shows as a
pin. Click one and you get the site, the customer, the bin size, how many days it has been sitting
there and whether collection is overdue.
That matters because a list tells you a bin is at 14 Wattle Street and a map tells you it is four
streets from the one you are collecting on Thursday. Planning a collection run stops being a
memory exercise. And when somebody rings about their bin, the answer is on screen before they
finish the sentence, so nobody sends a truck out to go looking.
Blocked in? Find the next one from the truck
You turn up to collect and you cannot. A car is parked across the driveway, a delivery van has
the lane, the gate is padlocked. Every operator loses trips to this, and the usual answer is to ring
the office, wait while somebody works out what else is nearby, and quite often drive back empty.
Instead the driver opens the bin locator on the phone, taps Filters, and chooses
bins near me. Everything within reach comes up on the map with the overdue ones
already flagged. Pick one, collect it, keep going.
Nobody had to be rung. No fuel went on a wasted trip. And the bin that could not be collected is
still sitting on the overdue list for tomorrow rather than quietly forgotten, which is the part that
costs you twice: a truck that earned nothing this morning and a bin that is still earning nothing
this afternoon.
Overdue collections surface themselves
A bin past its agreed hire period is flagged rather than waiting to be noticed. That is both a
collection to schedule and, quite often, an invoice line you were about to forget.
Stock that stays honest
Because availability is derived from jobs rather than counted by hand, tomorrow's plan is checked
against bins that actually exist and are actually free. Optional inventory validation stops you
taking a booking for a size you have not got.
Live GPS on the trucks
Alongside the bins, Skip Pilot tracks the vehicles. If your trucks already carry GPS units it
reads them rather than asking you to buy new hardware. We connect to whatsGPS and
IOP GPS, pulling each truck's live position, its speed, and the kilometres it
covered that day.
You do not configure any of this. Tell us on the setup call which units you run and hand over the
account details, and we wire it up for you. Nobody gets handed a settings screen and a manual.
That does two jobs at once. An ETA becomes a fact rather than a guess, so a customer asking how
far away the truck is gets an answer instead of a callback. And the daily kilometre figure sits
against the truck, which is the number you need when you are working out what a run actually costs
you or whether a second truck is earning its keep.
