Truck Validation

The Truck Validation Sequence report lists potential problems in a truck sequence, such as routes that have more than one drop assigned, routes that are not assigned to a truck, and so on.

You can run the Truck Sequence Validation report for a particular truck sequence, product, departure sequence, and date, to ensure that:

• All of your routes have been assigned a drop order with a truck.

• There are no routes that have been assigned to more than one truck.

• All route drops have been assigned a location (a Truck Drop Sequence record).

• A route doesn’t have multiple drop orders on a truck.

• A truck does not have multiple editions (if One Edition Per Truck is set to “y”).

• All trucks are included in the departure sequence.

This report is useful after initial setup, and whenever you are doing significant modifications to your trucks or routes. Some problems this report might reveal are: routes assigned to multiple trucks, routes that are not assigned to trucks, routes that do not appear because the drop record has an end date before this date, and routes on trucks multiple times.

To create the report:

• Select Utilities | Truck Validation to display the Truck Sequence Validation Report window.

  
• Click Add and complete the following fields.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  PRODUCT	setup	Enter the product for which to produce the report. Only routes delivering this product will be considered.
  DEPARTURE	setup	Enter the departure sequence for the report. Trucks that are in the truck sequence but not in this departure sequence will be listed.
  TRUCK SEQUENCE	setup	Enter the truck sequence for which to produce the report. The drops information will be considered according to this sequence.
  VALIDATION DATE	date	Enter the date on which to base the report. For example, if a drop record has an end date before this date, the drop will not show up on the report.
  ONE EDITION PER TRUCK?	yes/no	Indicate whether the truck sequence should be validated for edition—if so, a warning will be displayed if more than one edition of the newspaper is being dropped by a truck.
  WEEKDAY	predefined	If you are validating for edition, indicate the day of week that should be validated, or enter “*” to multi-select days. Routes can have different editions on different days of the week; you may allow multiple editions on a truck on one day but not another day.
  ALL TRUCKS?	yes/no	Indicate whether you want all trucks to appear on the report.

• Click OK and then Continue to produce the report.