Frequently asked questions

Fort Route is a truck GPS app that plans the legal trip: a route that fits your truck and an arrival time that fits your hours of service. It routes for your height, width, length, weight, axles and hazmat class, then places your 30-minute break and 10-hour reset at real truck stops and rest areas along the way. The arrival time it shows already includes those stops. See how it works for a full trip, step by step.

Fort Route is for US truck drivers, owner-operators and company drivers alike. It's built for drivers who plan each day around the hours clock and where a truck can park. Small-fleet owners can try it for their drivers, but Fort Route has no dispatch or fleet-tracking features. There are pages for owner-operators, company drivers, small fleets and new drivers.

No, Fort Route plans routes on US roads only. Its hours-of-service planner uses the FMCSA rules for property-carrying drivers. Canada and Mexico routing are not available, and Canada routing is on the roadmap for later.

Request an invite on the beta page, and we'll send your invite code by email. When it arrives, open the link in the email, or go to app.fortroute.com and enter the code (it looks like TGPS-XXXX-XXXX) on the first screen. We review requests and send invites in batches, so your code may take some time to arrive. After you enter it, the app asks for your truck's size so routes fit your rig.

The beta lets you use Fort Route now, while the waitlist tells you when it opens to more drivers. Beta drivers use the web app on real trips and tell us what works and what doesn't, which shapes what we build next. Join the waitlist if you'd rather wait for a wider release than test a beta. Both are free.

Yes, the beta runs as a web app at app.fortroute.com in the browser on both Android phones and iPhones. You can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app. We also have an Android test app for beta testing, and App Store and Google Play apps are planned but not available yet. While you navigate, keep Fort Route open on screen; it keeps the screen on for you.

No, Fort Route is a planning aid, and your ELD record is the legal record of your hours. You type your current clocks into Fort Route, and it uses them to plan your breaks and resets and to show how much drive time you have left. If the two ever differ, go by your ELD.

Not yet: Fort Route doesn't connect to any ELD today. You enter your break, drive, shift and cycle clocks from your ELD, and Fort Route counts down from there; the shift window runs on the wall clock, while drive time counts only when the truck is moving. ELD clock sync with any vendor that offers an API is on the roadmap.

Not yet: arrival times come from the route and your hours of service, not from current traffic. Fort Route does show live road work from 17 state and city DOT feeds, and when you're parked you can check 12,999 live DOT traffic cameras for conditions on your route. Live traffic is on the roadmap.

Not yet: Fort Route needs a data connection, and offline maps are not available. Routes are planned on Fort Route's own server, so a new route or a reroute needs signal. During navigation, your position arrow keeps moving through tunnels and short dead zones for up to 2 minutes.

No, Fort Route has no real-time parking sensors or parking predictions. It shows where truck parking is, including official truck-space counts for rest areas from the USDOT truck parking survey, and drivers can mark a lot as plenty, some or full when they see it. During the beta, those reports stay on the phone that made them; shared reports are next on the roadmap.

Fort Route uses named public and open sources, listed on the data sources page. Places come from OpenStreetMap, truck-stop chains' public store locators, Overture Maps and the USDOT truck parking survey, and all 53,582 were checked against current sources in November 2026. Road work comes from state and city DOT feeds, and diesel averages come from the US Energy Information Administration. We don't copy place data from other map apps.

Fort Route collects the data it needs to plan your trips and run the beta; the privacy policy has the full details. When you request an invite, we use your email address to send your code. To plan a route, the app sends your start, stops, destination and truck size to Fort Route's own routing server. Receipt photos are read and stored on your phone, and so are scanned documents and your truck picture.

Tell us through the contact page, with the place name and where it is (city, plus highway or exit). We check reports against current sources and correct the place data. In the app, you can also add a weigh station's posted hours and confirm a place's amenities yourself.

Fort Route is free during the beta and for the first year after launch. You don't need a credit card to join the beta or the waitlist. The pricing page has the details.

No, you won't be charged automatically: Fort Route doesn't ask for a credit card, so there's no card on file. Check the pricing page for current terms.