Crew Dispatch & Scheduling for Trades: Keep Jobs Moving When Plans Change

Outdoor contracting isn't linear. Weather shifts. Customers reschedule. Crews finish early.

You don't need a perfect calendar — you need a system.

The dispatch truth

Every day you are solving 3 problems:

1. What are we doing today?
2. Where are we going next?
3. What could blow this up? (weather + access + materials)

The simplest dispatch sheet that works

For each job:

• Address
• Scope summary (bullets)
• Start time / window
• Crew assigned
• Special instructions
• Deposit status / approval status

If any of those are missing, you get callbacks, confusion, and delays.

Weather is a scheduling variable (treat it like one)

If you do sealcoating/asphalt:

• Weather isn't a notification — it's a go/no-go decision
• Use alerts + radar to verify the jobsite conditions

BidBlitz includes weather alerts and a radar view so you can see what's hitting the address.

Next step

If you're quoting fast but still losing weeks to chaos, dispatch is the next lever.

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