Vehicles

Introduction

This page is where company vehicles can be created and/or managed. Vehicles are what transport the fuels from terminals to customers, or even ~~transferred~~transfer to other vehicles if need be. Vehicle's contain fuel containers and depending on the type of fuel, can carry multiple types of fuel at once. To reach the Vehicles page, click on the Admin dropdown and click on Settings, once on the Settings page, click on Vehicles to open the page.

Vehicles

As stated above, Vehicles are used to tranport fuel onin containers from Terminals to customers. Vehicles will appear on this page as line items with the following columns

Name - The name of the vehicle
Containers - Shows how many containers are on the vehicle and by clicking on Manage Containers allows the containers to be edited
Status - Shows if the vehicle is active or inactvie
Actions - Actions that can be taken on the vehicle such as editing or deleting

Creating Vehicles

Creating a vehicle is easy and can be done simply by clicking on the Add Vehicle button. After clicking on the button, the Add Truck popup will appear and the Name of the truck needs to be filled out. After giving the vehicle a name, clicking on Create will create the vehicle and containers can be added next. Clicking on cancel will close the window and delete the name added. After creating a vehicle, containers will need to be added and is done by clicking on Manage Containers on the vehicle line item under containers. The Manage Fuel Containers popup will appear and the following fields need to be filled out

Container Name - The Name assigned to the container be created
Compatable Fuels - The fuels that can be carried in the container. Multiple Fuels can be added to the container only if the fuels are compatible
Capacity Volume - The amount that the container can hold

After filling out the information, clicking on Create Container will add the container to the vehicle. Multiple containers can be added to a vehicle and can be done simply by clicking on Manage Containers again and adding the second containers information and clicking Creat Container. Clicking on Manage Containers also shows existing conatiners and they appear as

Container ID - The container ID assigned by the system
Name - The name of the Container
Capacity - The amount of fuel the container can carry
Fuels - Shows compatible fuels that can be loaded on the container
Edit - Allows a container to be edited
Trash Can - Delete an existing container

With all of that, a vehicle is now fully created in the system and is now ready for deployment.

Editing and Vehicle and Container

A Vehicles name can be edited ~~simmply~~simply by clicking on the edit button under the actions section of the a vehicle listed. Here the name of a Vehicle can be changed and clicking on update will update the name. Editing a container is easy as well and is done by clicking on Manage Containers. After the Manage Fuel Containers popup appears, simply click on the edit button next to the container that needs to be edited. The information of the container will generate below Edit Container and any information that needs to be edited can be changed here. Once all information has been edited, click on Update Container to update any information that was changed on the container