Inputting the “Bases” from which trucks are dispatched is important in DispatchDirectTM because it enables you to capture enroute and return to base mileage, regardless of where the truck is actually located at the time of dispatch and whether it moves onto another job or physically returns to base. This is accomplished by choosing “geocoded” for enroute mileage instead of “truck dometer”

  For example, you would want to dispatch the closest appropriate truck available (or soon to be available) to the incident location to save on fuel.  In order to calculate mileage from the base rather than the physical truck location, the job should be entered with geocoded enroute miles rather than Truck Odometer.  (This will be explained in more detail under pricing, but mileage as geocoded or truck odometer can be configured on an Account level or an individual job level.)  choose to charge customers more for services delivered outside of normal business hours, or not
  You may also want to charge a premium for work that is required over the weekend, or not
  Similarly, many companies have a “shift differential” for driver commissions - e.g., drivers earn higher commissions when working a second or third shift or when working weekends. Other companies make no such differentiation.

Any shift-related differences in rates (including weekday vs. weekend) for both customer charges and driver commissions are specified in “Pricing Templates”. Howe