Road closures near my depots, every hour
Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
What it does
Every hour: closures and roadworks within 5 km of each of your depots, only depots that have one, with routing advice from xMap AI, to dispatch on WhatsApp, by email and on a map.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, take your table, find road closures and roadworks, keep those where incidents_nearby ≥ 1, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business, email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
A closed road near a depot delays every truck that leaves it. Dispatch hears about it within the hour.
Who it is for
Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery
Best use cases
- A delivery fleet
- A cold chain operator
- A courier
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp to dispatch
- An email
- A map
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 2 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 24 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My depotsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Closures around each depotxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Depots with something nearbyLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Routing advicexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Tell dispatchApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
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
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
More for Logistics, fleet & delivery
- Daily operations briefing for every hub: A daily operations briefing per hub, with a risk score and alerts for the risky ones.
- Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: most people per warehouse first.
- Incidents near my drivers’ zones: Incidents near your drivers' zones every 15 minutes, to dispatch.
- New warehouses and distributors to sell to: New warehouses and distributors, scored, with the operations manager, into HubSpot.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.
- Factories that ship a lot, as freight customers: Factories scored as freight customers, with the logistics manager.