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Vehicle classes are a fundamental component of Orbit, influencing various features and system functionalities in the background. While Orbit comes with a set of pre-configured standard vehicle classes, users can fully customise these classes, including attributes like load area dimensions, weight capacity, and priority, to meet specific company needs.
Key Highlights
Vehicles
to Carriers
inside of Orbit MissionControl.Shipments
on Tours
, as they directly influence what vehicle are suggested for a given Tour
.Understanding the following three entities is essential for effectively managing and routing Shipments
within Orbit MissionControl:
Load Carriers
also serve as a preset for creating new Loads
within Shipments
. You can define their dimensions (width, length, and height) initially and overwrite these during Shipment
creation. An example of this could be a preset named Europallets.Vehicle Classes
is two-fold: Similar to Load Carriers
, they serve as presets for creating new vehicles. When setting up vehicle classes, you will be asked to provide the dimensions of the available loading space (width, height and length). This preset will then be applied when creating new Vehicles
of a specific class and may be overwritten. The second purpose, however, is a little more intricate. When routing Shipments
on Tours
, vehicle classes serve as a main reference for determining what vehicles should be available to be assigned on tours.Vehicle ****Class
and typically inherits presets from that class, including loading area dimensions, weight capacity, and maximum vehicle weight. Vehicles
are the entities assigned to Tours
to perform transport tasks. Orbit is as specific as possible and uses real vehicle data when available, e.g. for calculating ETAs or LoadPlans
.Each Vehicle Class
has the following properties:
Vehicles
but also as a reference in the routing and class suggestion process for Shipments
on Tours
.Vehicle
creations and aids in determining the appropriate class during Shipment
routing on Tours
.Vehicles
and is crucial in vehicle class suggestion during Shipment
routing on Tours
.