Truck Tablet Mode · updated 2026-09-01

How the tablet keeps working without signal

Landfills sit in dead zones and rural routes lose coverage. The tablet is built to keep going, and to tell you honestly what has not been sent yet.

Before you start

  1. Open the day anyway

    The day is cached on the device. With no connection the list still opens, and a banner tells you which day is being shown so you never mistake yesterday for today.

  2. Keep completing stops

    Completing a stop, adding photos, reordering the day, starting and ending a shift all queue on the device. Nothing is lost and nothing has to be redone.

  3. Watch the sync badge

    The badge shows whether everything has been sent. It never says synced while something is still waiting, and it says so plainly when the server refused an action.

  4. Let it catch up

    When the signal returns the queue replays by itself, in order. You do not have to do anything.

What happens next

Troubleshooting

The badge shows something failed

Open it to see which action and why. Some refusals are permanent, for example a stop that the office cancelled while you were offline, and those are shown so you can tell your dispatcher rather than silently disappearing.

Photos are taking a long time to upload

Photos queue like everything else and go up when the connection allows. Keep working; they will not block the stop from completing.

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