Dispatch

To enter a freight bill order, select the Dispatch Log - Roofing, Dispatch Log - Freight, or Dispatch Log - Local Freight option on the Trucking > Dispatch Menu. Although these options are separate, they share the same screen and once the screen is opened, a different dispatch log type may be selected by toggling the type at the bottom left hand side of the screen.  To view all three dispatch logs at once, click on the All Logs option.  The input for each log is identical and the logs are identified by the FTYPE field in the dispatch.adt table (1=Freight, 2=Roofing, and 3=Local Freight).  The dispatch entry should be filled in with as much information as possible, but the system will allow a log entry to be made without entering any of the order detail.  

All orders must be entered into the dispatch log before they can be billed using the Freight Bill option.  Once a dispatch log entry has been billed, it will be removed from the dispatch log so that it cannot be billed again.  When an order is billed, the corresponding dispatch log entry will be marked as closed by setting the 'close_out' field in the current dispatch log file (dispatch.adt) to true.  The record is not physically removed from the file until the Dispatch File Maintenance option is performed, at which point the closed out entries are physically removed from the current dispatch log file and copied to the historical dispatch file (disphist.adt)