Track Asphalt Weigh Tickets and Truck Cycle Times

On Last load, set the plant's hours. The countdown works back from when the plant stops loading: the time to load, the time for a truck to get back from the job, and the notice the plant wants for an order. It warns you before the Order by time (Warn me this far ahead sets how soon), and a banner stays on screen while the order is close.

Under How much is left?, measure what is still to pave in feet, add a section for each patch, and the card works out the order: area times thickness, any tons already on the way or in the paver taken off, a cushion you choose, rounded up to the half ton or the ton. It shows what the cushion costs, and Copy the order copies the message to send.

Add the plant's dispatch phone and your sales rep under Who to call, and a Call button appears beside the order and on the countdown. I placed the order stops the warning.

Under Your trucks and drivers, press Add a truck and enter it the way its tickets name it: the truck name or number, the plate state and license plate, the driver and the driver's phone. Add its truck type, the tons it usually carries and what it costs per hour if you want the planner to use your fleet.

A scanned ticket is matched to a truck by its license plate or number, so the tons and round trips land on the right truck, and the driver's number is one tap away when a truck is late.

Press Scan ticket and photograph the scale ticket, or Add by hand. The scan reads the net weight, the ticket number, the time the load left the plant, the mix temperature when the plant prints it, and the truck, and fills in the form so you can check every number before pressing Save ticket. Nothing is saved until you do. The weight can be tons, pounds, metric tonnes or kilograms.

The photo is read on your phone. When you save the ticket, the photo is kept with it, in storage only your account can read, so you can open it later; the first scan downloads the reading engine, about 10 MB, so do it on Wi-Fi. Attach a photo without scanning keeps a picture of a ticket you typed in.

A ticket with the same number, plant and day as one already in is stopped until you say it is a different ticket, so a load is not counted twice. A wrong ticket is voided with a reason, never deleted: it stops counting, keeps its photo and its history, and can be restored.

The top card shows the tons delivered against the order, the number of tickets, the last delivery, about how many loads are left and the trucks hauling. The bar turns red if you go over the order. Tons ordered is yours to change when you order more, such as a last-load top-up.

Alerts appear underneath when something needs a call: round trips running slower than they did earlier in the day, not enough trucks hauling to keep the paver fed at the real cycle time, a job running behind its plan, a job over its order, a job nearly done, or the same ticket number entered twice.

Trucks out lists every load that has left the plant. When a truck reaches the job, tap Reached the job; when it leaves, tap Left the job. The tap takes the phone's clock to the minute. You can also press Scan to match and photograph the ticket on arrival: the number is read, matched to the truck on the road, and you confirm it.

Type the thermometer reading at the paver in the Mix °F box before you tap, and the loss in the truck is measured too. The taps work with no signal: they are kept on the phone and sent when the connection returns, and the same tap sent twice changes nothing.

Cycle times splits a truck's day from your tickets and taps: the haul to the job, the waiting and dumping at the job, the trip back, plant queue and loading, and the whole cycle, each with its typical value, its range and how many readings it rests on. Two tickets from the same truck make one cycle; the taps split it into its parts.

It also says whether the cycles are steady. With at least 5 cycles, it counts how many ran more than 25% off the typical one, names the part of the day that swings most, and names a truck that runs well off the others. A very short gap between two tickets is a double entry and a gap of several hours is a break, so neither counts.

With three or more timed hauls, the card works out how slow your loaded trucks run compared with a car and offers a button, such as Use 54% for my plans, that puts it into your slowdown. With three or more loads that have both temperatures, it offers your measured cooling loss in place of the planner's rough model. Both change only your plans, and only when you press the button.