Geo-Filtering & Distance
Use depot-based distance filtering to find trips that are economically viable for your fleet.
Geo-filtering calculates the distance between your vehicle depot and each trip's pickup location, letting you focus on trips where your deadhead costs are manageable and your bids stay competitive.
What Geo-Filtering Does
When geo-filtering is active, the marketplace measures the straight-line distance from your registered depot to the pickup location of each trip. That distance appears as a badge on every trip card — for example, 142 km from your depot — and can be used to sort or cap the trips shown.
This is not the driving distance along a road route. It is the Euclidean distance used as a fast proxy for deadhead exposure. Your actual deadhead drive will be longer, but the relative ranking of trips by proximity is accurate.
Setting Your Depot Location
Your depot is the base from which your vehicles operate. The system resolves it in this order:
Fleet vehicle depot
Profile address fallback
To set or update a depot, go to Fleet Management, open a vehicle record, and edit the Depot Address field. The address is geocoded via Google Maps.
Setting a Maximum Deadhead Distance
In Settings → Operational Rules, you can set a Max Deadhead km value. When set, the marketplace automatically excludes trips whose pickup location exceeds this distance from your depot. Leave the field blank (null) to see all trips regardless of distance.
This preference applies globally to the marketplace view — it does not affect bids you have already submitted.
Why Deadhead Distance Matters for Pricing
Deadhead refers to the distance your vehicle must travel empty to reach the trip's pickup location. That mileage is a real cost: fuel, driver time, and wear on the vehicle. When you place a bid, you are implicitly absorbing or passing on that cost.
- A short deadhead (under 50 km) means you can bid competitively with minimal positioning cost.
- A long deadhead (200 km+) typically requires you to charge more to break even, which reduces your competitiveness against operators who are already local.
Understanding your deadhead exposure before you bid is essential to pricing correctly. The distance badge on each trip card is the fastest way to assess this at a glance.
Ranking by Distance
When distance filtering is active, the Sort by Distance option ranks trips from nearest to farthest depot-to-pickup. Combined with a Max Deadhead km cap, this ensures the top of your list always shows the trips where you are most naturally competitive.
Keep your depot address accurate
An incorrect depot address produces wrong distance calculations throughout the marketplace. A depot set to your billing address downtown instead of your actual garage on the outskirts of the city can make distant trips appear closer than they are — leading to underpriced bids that cost you money.