The forecast turns, the crew's already out
When the temperature drops, spin up every route on the dispatch board in minutes (Professional and up), keep your seasonal contracts rebooking on their own (Essentials and up), and invoice each call-out the moment the run's done — with your gritters and ploughs kept road-legal (Professional and up).
✓ No card required · ✓ Invoiced by bank transfer
Sound like your winter?
Gritting is a phone-melting scramble when it turns, a season of contracts, and a fleet that has to stay legal to run.
The scramble when it turns
The forecast drops and every site wants doing at once. Working the crew and the routes off a whiteboard at 3am is how a site gets missed — and a missed car park is a claim.
Contracts you lose track of
Seasonal gritting is repeat work across dozens of sites. Track who's on contract, what's due and what's a one-off in a spreadsheet and the billing never quite adds up.
A gritter off the road
A ploughing truck with lapsed tax, a missed test or an overdue service is a machine you can't run on the one night you need it most.
Get the whole crew out the moment it turns
When the forecast drops, build the night's routes and drag each one onto the dispatch board (Professional and up) — it checks for double-bookings and clashes as jobs land, so nobody's sent to the same site twice. Optimise the order of stops so each run takes the shortest sensible route.
- Drag-and-drop dispatch board with conflict checks
- Route and day optimisation for the shortest run (Professional and up)
- Assign a whole night's routes in minutes
Every gritting contract rebooking on its own
Put each site on a recurring service or maintenance contract (Essentials and up) so scheduled grits generate themselves across the season, and a one-off call-out sits right beside them. The daily briefing lists what's on tonight and an 'on my way' text (Essentials and up, via your own Twilio account) goes out when the driver rolls.
- Recurring seasonal gritting contracts
- One-off call-outs beside the scheduled runs
- Daily briefing and 'on my way' texts
Access, gates and grit spots on record
Keep every site with its own notes — gate codes, barrier keys, which car park, where the grit bins are and what the contract covers — so a stand-in driver runs the route as well as your regular. Multi-site customers keep a record and access notes per property.
- Per-site access notes, gate codes and grit spots
- Multi-site customers with a record per property
- A stand-in driver runs the route like a regular
Keep every gritter and plough road-legal
Log each truck, gritter and plough in the fleet register (Professional and up) with reminders for tax, test and service, so nothing's caught off the road on the night it's needed. Warnings land well ahead, not the morning it expires, so the whole fleet's ready when the cold snap hits.
- Vehicle reminders for tax, test and service
- Warnings ahead of time, not on the day
- The whole fleet ready before the cold hits
Run done, invoice already sent
Close the run, tap complete and send a VAT-smart invoice with a card-payment link (Essentials and up; connect your own Stripe or PayPal) — per call-out or per contract. Not VAT-registered? It's one clean 'Price'. Overdue reminders chase the slow payers and the aged-debtors view shows who's behind across every site.
- Card payment links via Stripe or PayPal
- VAT-smart invoices — or one clean Price if not registered
- Automatic overdue reminders and an aged-debtors view
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Out fast when it turns, paid for every run
Try Field 2 Service free for 14 days — build a route, set up a seasonal contract, invoice a call-out. No credit card required.
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