About Fort Route

Fort Route is an independent team building a truck GPS around the legal trip plan. This page explains why Fort Route exists and the principles behind it.

Why Fort Route exists

A truck driver's day doesn't start with the fastest road. It starts with the clock: 11 hours of driving inside a 14-hour window, with a 30-minute break after 8 hours of driving. At the end of the day, you need 10 hours off duty somewhere a truck can park.

Then there's the rig. A 13'6" trailer needs clearance under every bridge, and a hazmat placard changes which tunnels you can use.

Most map apps plan around a car. They pick the quickest road and give an arrival time that assumes you'll drive straight through. Fort Route starts from the truck and the hours, and plans the trip you actually have to run.

What's different

The legal trip plan

Fort Route routes for your truck's height, width, length, weight, axles and hazmat class, and it prefers designated truck routes over neighborhood shortcuts. The hours-of-service planner then places your 30-minute breaks, 10-hour resets and 34-hour restarts at real truck stops and rest areas. The arrival time you see is the legal arrival time, with those stops included.

Honest, sourced data

All 53,582 places in the app were checked against current sources in November 2026, and every source is named on the data sources page. When an amenity is a brand's usual offer rather than confirmed for that location, the app labels it "Usually". When we don't know, we say so: a weigh station without posted hours reads "Hours unknown", and a stretch of road with no known speed limit shows no sign instead of a guess.

Built with drivers

Fort Route is in closed beta, and drivers are using it on real loads. They report parking and scale status from the road and tell us where the app or the data is wrong. That feedback shapes what we fix and build next.

Our principles

Legal first

Every plan starts from your truck's limits and your hours. A route your truck isn't allowed on, or an arrival time your clock can't make, is not a plan.

Honest data

We name our sources and label estimates as estimates. If we don't know whether a lot has space or a scale is open, the app doesn't pretend to.

Respect the driver's time

Fort Route aims for a clear answer in a few taps, with one obvious next step. While the truck is moving, the app locks typed search and the planning screens until you're parked.

Earn trust with specifics

We'd rather show a real screen and a real number than make a promise. That's why we cite real counts, like 12,999 live DOT cameras and 17 road-work feeds, and say "not yet" where a feature isn't built.

Independent

Fort Route is independent and isn't affiliated with any ELD or fleet vendor. The planner works the same whichever ELD your truck runs: you enter your clocks, and Fort Route plans from them. ELD clock sync is on the roadmap for any vendor that offers an API.

What's next

The roadmap shows what's in the beta today and what we plan to build, starting with App Store and Google Play apps and background GPS. Plans can change, and we don't promise dates.

Contact

To ask about the beta or tell us about a place we have wrong, use the contact page.