Best Way to Manage Recurring Jobs Across Multiple Crews?
Hey everyone,
We're one season into trying a new workflow for scheduling jobs and I'm curious how others handle this.
Last year, we assigned every employee to every job. The downside was that nobody could easily tell which jobs they were actually responsible for each day.
This season, we created dedicated teams so the same crew visits the same properties each week. For the most part, it's worked really well. However, when rain delays force us to move routes around, crews sometimes need to cover properties that normally belong to another team.
The problem is that when a job gets moved, the crew covering it can't see it because they aren't assigned to the recurring job. We then have to manually remove and reassign employees for each affected visit, which becomes pretty time-consuming.
Has anyone found a good workaround for this? Ideally, we'd like to assign jobs to a "fleet" or "truck" rather than individual employees. For example:
- Truck A covers these properties
- Truck B covers these properties
Then whichever employees are assigned to Truck A can see Truck A's route, regardless of who is working that day.
I'm curious how other companies are managing this and whether there's a better way than manually reassigning employees every time a schedule changes.
Thanks in advance!