Truck stops and rest areas on my corridor
Truck stops, fuel and rest areas along your corridor.
What it does
Every quarter: truck stops, fuel stations and rest areas along the cities of your main corridor, the best-rated first, in a directory sheet for the drivers.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, find truck stops, gas stations and rest stops in the area, clean up their categories, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Drivers on long routes need safe stops. A directory makes every trip easier.
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 trucking company
- A fleet manager
- A drivers’ association
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.
- The corridorWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Truck stops and fuelxMap 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.
- Sort by kindxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Update the drivers’ directoryApp · 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.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
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.