Live Professional Navigation

Route confidence on every truck, van and trailer on the road, built around the vehicle that is actually driving. A truck-safe profile loaded into Live Navigation routes a 32-tonne tautliner along the corridors it is allowed on, with the live traffic, the delivery windows and the next stop's geofence all in the same app the driver uses. The approach to the De Doorns interchange stays on the trunk route, the dispatcher in Bedfordview sees the same plan, and the day runs against the route the vehicle was actually built for.

Direct answer

Live Professional Navigation from TG Tracking gives South African drivers truck-safe, vehicle-specific turn-by-turn routing with live traffic, multi-stop optimisation against delivery windows and integrated job workflow. It plugs into Fleet Tracking and Management, Vehicle Inspection App and Digital Checklists and Paperless Processes so the driver runs the route, the inspection and the proof-of-delivery from one phone, in one app, signed off in one audit log. See the cluster overview at Operations and Workflow.

Three differences from a consumer maps app

Vehicle profile awareness, multi-stop optimisation and workflow integration. The first stops a 4.6 m trailer being routed under a 4.2 m bridge. The second turns 21 stops into 18 stops with a 47-minute saving. The third lifts proof-of-delivery, customer ETAs and exception alerts off the driver's WhatsApp.

What truck-safe routing actually checks

A consumer app routes around traffic. A truck-safe app routes around traffic and around the road rules of the vehicle on the route. A fleet vehicle profile in TG Mobile carries the data that consumer apps either ignore or do not have:

• Height. Bridge clearance, overhead cabling, container terminal entry gates.
• Weight. Gross vehicle weight against bridge load class and road class.
• Length and turning circle. Switchback turns, tight depot entries, restricted urban side-streets.
• Hazmat class. Restricted tunnels, urban fuel-station bans, hazardous-route corridors.
• Vehicle category. Truck-permitted routes, no-truck zones, off-peak heavy-vehicle restrictions.

When a planned trip would breach any of those, the navigation rebuilds the route around the constraint. The driver does not have to know the constraint exists.

Multi-stop optimisation that respects the delivery window

A 21-stop courier route in greater Johannesburg is not 21 nearest-neighbour decisions. It is 21 customer-promised time windows, 21 geofenced delivery zones, three traffic-condition windows across the day, one driver shift constraint and one vehicle profile. Live Navigation builds the optimised order against all of that, then re-optimises live as a stop runs over, a customer reschedules or a road closes ahead.

A driver running a 21-stop list reorganised into 18 priority stops with three deferred to tomorrow saves 47 minutes of driving and 38 km of fuel without missing a window. The supervisor sees the same plan in TG Online, so the dispatch board and the driver's phone show the same truth.

Workflow at the stop, not just at the wheel

The stop itself is where consumer navigation hands off to nothing. Live Navigation hands off to the rest of the platform. Arrival at a geofenced customer location triggers a job acknowledgement, the proof-of-delivery checklist, the customer signature capture and the time-stamped photo evidence, all on the driver's phone. The same arrival event closes the trip leg, updates the customer's ETA on the next stop and prompts the driver's pre-departure inspection if it is the start of a new shift. Digital Checklists and Paperless Processes, Vehicle Inspection App and the navigation share one driver app rather than three.

South African road conditions, not a global default

The route engine is configured for the operational reality of moving freight, parcels and people in this country.

N3, N1, N4 and N2 corridors. Long-haul route profiles built around real travel-time bands, weather-affected sections like the Van Reenen's Pass and the N2 fog belt around East London, and the recovery network's known lay-bys.

Cross-border SADC. Beitbridge, Lebombo, Maseru Bridge, Skilpadshek, Kopfontein. Border-window awareness and pre-cleared route profiles for known operators.

Mining and industrial corridors. Mine-site protocols, off-public-road entry routes and integration with Mining IVMS for compliance-zone awareness on sensitive sites.

Rural and farm-route resilience. Offline-capable mapping for sections where cellular coverage is patchy, with the route held in cache so a driver in a dead zone still has the next instruction.

Frequently asked questions

See the route the driver actually drives

Live Navigation puts the driver, the dispatcher and the customer on the same plan for the day. Book a Live Navigation demo and we will route your real fleet on a real day, with your vehicle profiles and delivery windows already loaded.