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In the mobile app: the Inspections tab → the car button at the top right.

Route planning lays out your day’s driving: from your company address to each confirmed inspection in time order and back. It works out the driving time and distance between stops with live traffic, so you can see if your schedule works before you leave.

Plan a route

1

Pick a day

Choose Today, Tomorrow or any day in the next week.The Select Date screen: Select a date for route planning, Choose from the next 7 days to plan your inspection route, with rows Today Oct 24, 2026, Tomorrow Oct 25, Monday Oct 26, Tuesday Oct 27, Wednesday Oct 28 and Thursday Oct 29
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Check your stops

Plan Your Route lists your stops: Base (your company address) first, then each of your confirmed inspections and inspection events that day in time order, then Base again.Plan Your Route: Base at 300 E Monroe St, Springfield, IL, 62701, then Jordan Taylor 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM at 1420 Maple Avenue, Springfield, IL 62704, then Grace Turner 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM at 67 Spruce Avenue, Riverton, IL 62561, then Base again. Each stop has up and down arrows, a red delete button and a pencil on its address; a car icon sits between stops and a navigation button is at the top rightFor each stop you can:
  • move it with the up and down arrows;
  • remove it with the red trash button (“Remove … from your route?”);
  • tap its arrival or departure time to change it;
  • tap the pencil to change the address, for example to start from home instead of the office.
3

Add a stop if you need one

Tap Add Stop at the bottom for a stop that isn’t an inspection, such as lunch or picking up equipment. It’s called Custom Stop 1; give it an address and times.The bottom of Plan Your Route: the Grace Turner stop, the Base stop, and a blue dashed Add Stop button
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Tap the navigation button at the top right

Hive calculates the driving times and shows the Route Summary.

The Route Summary

Route Summary: Departure 8:00 AM, Return 3:44 PM, Total Driving 42 min, Total Distance 25.2 mi. Route Details, 3 stops, Saturday, Oct 24: Base to Jordan Taylor 10 min, 3.4 mi, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM; Jordan Taylor to Grace Turner 18 min, 13.9 mi, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM; Grace Turner to Base 14 min, 7.8 mi, 3:30 PM - 3:44 PM; and a green Back Home card, Arrival 3:44 PM
  • Departure and Return: when to leave and when you’ll be back.
  • Total Driving and Total Distance for the whole day. Distance is in miles, or kilometres if your company uses metric units.
  • Route Details: each leg, with its driving time, distance and the time window.
  • Back Home: when you get back to your base.
  • The map at the bottom shows the route and every stop. Tap Open in Maps to start turn-by-turn directions in your maps app, with all the stops.
The Route Details list with three legs and the Back Home card, Arrival 3:44 PM, 300 E Monroe St, Springfield, IL, 62701, and the top of the route map below Tap the back arrow to change your stops and calculate again.

Good to know

  • Only your inspections. The route uses the confirmed inspections and events you’re assigned to, even if you can see the whole team’s.
  • Your base is the company address. Set it on the dashboard in Profile Settings, under the company’s street address. Without one, the app says “Organization Address Required: Please set your organization address in settings to use route planning.”
  • Not enough time? If a stop’s times don’t leave room for the whole inspection, the app warns you (“Duration Warning”) and offers to adjust the arrival time.
  • Nothing is saved or sent. The route is just for you. It doesn’t change your schedule or tell anyone.
  • Needs signal, to calculate driving times.
For the miles each inspector actually drove, for expenses, see the dashboard’s Mileage tracker.

Common questions

The route only includes Confirmed inspections assigned to you on that day. Check its status and who’s assigned, or add it with Add Stop.
Yes. Tap the pencil on the first Base stop and type your home address. It’s only changed for this route.

Where to go next

Last modified on October 25, 2026