The whiteboard problem, honestly
One truck, you can run it in your head. Two trucks and a couple of crews, and you need something written down. So it goes on a whiteboard, or a shared Google Calendar, or a group chat.
All three break the same way. The board is in the office. The calendar doesn't know a truck from a crew. The group chat buries this morning's change under forty messages.
Then the customer calls to shift Friday to Saturday, and you're rubbing out a square while trying to remember which crew has the piano.
What dispatch should look like for a small fleet
Not a generic field-service calendar. A moving day has a shape: crew, truck, pickup, drop, time on site. The tool should know that.
- Rows are your crews or your trucks, not a flat list of events
- Drag a job to another crew or another day and it's done
- A booked quote lands on the calendar without you retyping it
- The crew see their day on their phone, not on a photo of a board
Calendar by crew or truck
AllMoveTeam's calendar puts crews and trucks on the rows. Jobs are what you drag between them. Day, week and month views. Move a job and the calendar tells you if you've just double-booked a truck.
When a customer accepts a quote, the job is already on the calendar waiting for a crew. No copy-paste from an email into a whiteboard square.
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Sarah Chen · $1,240 · Tue 8:00
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Move day: see every truck, stop the phone calls
The board is for planning. Move day is live. Every crew on the app shows on a map, and the job moves stage as they tap 'on the way', 'loading', 'delivered'.
That's the end of the 'where's the truck?' call. You can see. And so can the customer, because their tracking link shows the same thing.
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Sarah Chen · $1,240 · Tue 8:00
Move day
What about the crews who hate apps?
Fair. The crew app does three things they actually want: today's jobs with addresses and notes, a button to say where they are, and their hours. No forms, no training day.
Most crews stop asking 'what's on tomorrow' within a week, because it's on their phone the night before.
Questions movers ask
We use Google Calendar now. Why change?
Google Calendar is fine for one truck. It doesn't know a crew from a truck, it can't stop a double booking, and your crew can't update it from the road. Once you have two trucks and someone else booking jobs, the gaps start costing money.
Can I schedule by truck instead of crew?
Yes. Switch the rows between crews and trucks. Some movers plan by who's driving, others by which truck fits the job. Both work.
Does a job move to the calendar automatically when a quote is accepted?
Yes. An accepted quote becomes a job on the calendar with the addresses, times and notes already on it. You assign the crew; that's all.
Do crews pay extra for the app?
No. The crew app is free on iOS and Android and there's no per-truck fee.
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