Towing partners along the highways
Towing services along the highways, approved.
What it does
Every year: towing and roadside services in the cities along your main highways, the best-rated first, approved, for a roadside assistance network.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, find towing services in the area, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Roadside help is only as good as the nearest truck. The network covers every highway.
Who it is for
Automotive & mobility. Car dealers, rental, parts suppliers and mobility operators following drivers and the places they go. Every use case for automotive & mobility
Best use cases
- A roadside assistance company
- A car insurer
- A car brand’s assistance programme
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Highway citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Towing servicesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Approve the partnersLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the roadside networkApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
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- New garages and tyre shops on my van routes: New garages and tyre shops sorted by what they do, scored and sent to the right van route.
- Where to put scooter and bike hubs: The blocks for scooter and bike hubs, near stations and people, approved every month.
- Busy spots with the fewest car washes: Busy supermarkets and malls with the fewest car washes around, every month.
- How rival dealers are rated around mine: How buyers rate the rival dealers around each of your dealerships.
- Busy places that need more parking: Busy places with the fewest car parks around, every month.
- Body shops for my paint and refinish products: Body and paint shops by kind, with the owner.