When scheduling a route, various types of vehicles may be required. Some vehicles may have some driving restrictions. Heavy trucks, for instance, are prohibited to drive in certain urban areas.

Some roads may have restrictions, including speed limitations, weight and space restrictions, and clearance constrains. In order to ensure optimal route planning you can use the Vehicle types option.

We have revamped the vehicle types form and you can enable dynamic breaks

The **Vehicle type ** option is optional. If you need to set up the Vehicle type option in MaxOptra, please, contact the MaxOptra Support Team.

2. Fill the basic information:

3. Select the Routing mode; e.g. “Car” or “Truck”. For example, if your vehicle type is “Truck”, you should fill in the fields with the vehicle characteristics, e.g. weight, height, width, length, and axle load. For “Car” such characteristics are not required.

4. Enable dynamic breaks function to work with a specific vehicle type.

When vehicle types are created, you may apply them to your fleet of vehicles, if you need to. To apply the vehicle type to the vehicle, select the Vehicle type field in the Vehicle form and click Update defaults to save the new changes.

MaxOptra will select the optimal route which will vary according to the characteristics of the vehicle - the figures below will show how the different routes if the vehicle is a car (1) or a truck (2).

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For the "Truck", the route will be planned with consideration to all driving restrictions for trucks.

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Certain vehicles should be restricted from entering low emission zones and alsso urban areas For this purpose MaxOptra provides a special setting in the Vehicle Type form, called Avoid low Emission Zone & Avoid urban areas

Tick this checkbox if you want to restrict vehicles of this type to enter the ULEZ. Now you can apply this vehicle type to your vehicles.

Note: This option may not be available for your account, so please contact the MaxOptra Support Team for clarification