Heat on long-haul routes: rest stops for drivers
A heat rest plan for drivers on long-haul routes.
What it does
Every afternoon in summer: tomorrow’s heat at each stop on your long-haul routes, the hottest first, with shaded rest stops nearby and a rest plan by xMap AI, sent to the drivers.
In one sentence: Every day at 15:00, take your table, get the 2-day weather forecast, sort them by temp_max and keep the top 10, count the truck stops, rest stops and gas stations within 5 km of each, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Driving in extreme heat is dangerous. Rest stops in the hottest hours keep drivers safe.
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 long-haul trucking company
- A tanker fleet
- A bus company
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp message
The time it saves
Every day at 15:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 10 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Long-haul route stopsYour 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.
- Forecast for 2 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 10 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Rest stops nearbyxMap 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.
- Write the rest plan with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Send it to the driversApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- 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
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
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.
- Road closures near my depots, every hour: Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.