Module guide
Turn a tablet mounted in the cab into a purpose-built roll-off driver terminal: the day on the left, the live route map on the right, a one-touch rail, and controls sized for work gloves.
Truck Tablet Mode is Dumpster Controls running full screen on a tablet that stays mounted in the truck, the way a navigation head unit stays in a car. It is not the phone app stretched to a bigger screen. It is a second layout, built for a landscape screen at arm's length: the driver's day sits in a panel on the left, the live map fills the right, and a vertical rail on the far left holds the handful of things a driver touches while working. Every control is at least 48 by 48 pixels and no text is smaller than 14 pixels, because the person using it is wearing gloves and the truck is moving.
The tablet is paired to the company once, not to a person. That is the difference between a driver's phone and a truck terminal: the tablet belongs to the truck, and whoever climbs in that day identifies themselves with a 4 digit PIN. A "Who is driving?" screen lists the company's drivers with their photos, the driver taps a face and types the PIN, and the tablet becomes that driver's session, with that driver's day, that driver's shift clock and that driver's messages. At the end of the shift the next person does the same. No shared login, no password typed on a touchscreen in a cab, and every action still attributed to the person who did it.
The map is the part built specifically for roll-off work, and it behaves differently from a generic route map. A roll-off truck carries one container at a time, so the map draws one trip at a time: the leg the driver is on right now, with its origin and destination numbered, and the rest of the day dimmed behind it. Finish the stop and the next leg appears. A solid line means the truck is carrying a can; a dashed line means it is running empty. Landfill runs are drawn at the landfill itself, not at the customer address the task inherited, and when a full container spent the night at the yard the route starts at the yard, because that is where the container actually is.
Everything else a roll-off day needs is in reach without leaving the screen: the shift clock with Play, Pause and Stop, the route bar with the driving timer and the on-site timer, photo capture for proof of work, the landfill picker with community star ratings, the dump ticket receipt scan that reads net weight and cost off the photo, drag to reorder the day, the company board when the office allows it, and Tresha by voice so the driver can ask a question or complete a stop without taking hands off the wheel for long. When the signal drops the tablet keeps working: the day is cached on the device and every action queues and replays when the connection returns.
Owners, supervisors and dispatchers can open the driver app themselves from the account menu, see the entire company day inside it, and switch back to the office app whenever they want. It is the fastest way to understand what a driver is looking at, and it needs no second device and no second account.
It is a second layout of the Dumpster Controls driver app, made for a tablet mounted permanently in a roll-off truck. Instead of the phone's stacked screens it shows a landscape cockpit: the day list on the left, the live route map on the right, and a vertical rail of large buttons on the far left. Controls are at least 48 by 48 pixels and text is never smaller than 14 pixels, so it can be used with gloves on, at arm's length, in a moving vehicle.
No. Any Android tablet or iPad that runs the Dumpster Controls app works, plus a mount and a charger. There is no proprietary terminal to buy, no monthly device fee and no contract. The tablet layout turns on automatically on tablet sized screens, so the same app the driver already has becomes the truck terminal.
The tablet is paired to the company once. After that it shows a "Who is driving?" screen listing the company's drivers with their photos. The driver taps their own name and types a 4 digit PIN, and the tablet becomes a real session for that driver: their day, their shift clock, their messages, their name on every completed stop. The next driver repeats it at shift change. Nobody types a password on a touchscreen and nobody shares a login.
Yes, and it is deliberately limited. The PIN identifies a driver on a paired company tablet; it never grants an office session. Attempts are rate limited per device and per driver and the account locks after repeated failures. The PIN is stored hashed together with a server-side secret that never leaves the database, so even a copy of the stored value cannot be tested offline. Anyone with an office role must set their own PIN; nobody can set a PIN for someone else and then use it.
Because a roll-off truck can only do one thing at a time: it carries one container. Drawing the whole day at once produced a screen with many lines and repeated visits to the yard, which is exactly what a driver does not need while driving. The map shows the leg being driven now, with its origin and destination numbered, and the rest of the day dimmed. Complete the stop and the next leg is drawn.
Solid means the truck is carrying a container. Dashed means it is running empty, which in roll-off is called bobtail. The distinction is derived from the sequence of stops, not typed in by anyone: a delivery leaves the truck empty, a pickup fills it, a landfill run empties the container, and the map colours the legs accordingly. A small legend chip on the map explains it in one tap.
Yes. The day is cached on the tablet, so it opens and stays readable with no connection, showing which day it is displaying. Completing stops, adding photos, reordering the day and starting or ending a shift all queue on the device and replay automatically when the signal returns. A sync badge shows whether everything has been sent.
Yes. Owners, supervisors and dispatchers open the driver app from the account menu in the office app, without a second device or a second account. They see the whole company day inside the driver interface and can switch back at any time. If a route or a shift is open, the app warns before it cancels anything.
Checked on 2026-09-01 on the vendors' own pages, none of the three we could inspect publishes one. CurbWaste describes its driver app as "Any device, any size", which is responsive sizing rather than a distinct in-cab layout. Docket describes "the Docket Dumpster Software mobile app"; it does mention a PIN, but that PIN identifies a dumpster, not a driver. iCANS states "Works on iOS and Android. Included in every plan." None of them documents driver switching on a shared device. That is absence of published documentation, not proof that no such capability exists internally, and a tablet-friendly app that simply resizes is a different thing from a second layout built for the cab.
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