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Part of the Dispatch Planner column reference. The Destination Region column shows the DAT region where each trip delivers, such as Southeast or Upper Midwest. DAT regions are large groupings of states and provinces. Use the column to see which broad areas your trucks will end up in and to plan reloads from there.

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At a glance

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Which regions are there?

The filter list offers the 18 DAT regions: California, Canada Central, Canada East, Canada West, Carolinas, Florida-So Georgia, Great Lakes, Lower Atlantic, Lower Midwest, Lower Mountain, New England, Ohio River, Pacific Northwest, South Central, Southeast, Upper Atlantic, Upper Midwest, and Upper Mountain.

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How is the region assigned?

The planner works out the region from the map coordinates of the trip’s last delivery:
  1. If the delivery sits inside a DAT region, the column shows that region.
  2. If the delivery sits inside two overlapping regions, the column lists both in alphabetical order, separated by a semicolon.
  3. If the delivery sits outside every region, the column shows the nearest region, as long as one is close enough, within about 500 miles.
The column reads the last delivery, not the last stop. On a trip that ends with a waypoint, Destination Location shows the waypoint while Destination Region shows the region of the last delivery.

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How do I filter by region?

Type text to match any part of the region name, such as Midwest, which finds both Lower Midwest and Upper Midwest. Typing also finds trips that list two regions. Pick from the list to match trips whose region is exactly one you picked. A trip that lists two regions does not match a single region picked from the list, so type the name instead.

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Why is the column blank?

The trip has no delivery stop. With no delivery there is no location to place in a region. The last delivery has no map coordinates. See Understanding address input to set coordinates on a stop. The last delivery is far from every DAT region. A delivery more than about 500 miles from the nearest region gets no region.