Vehicle types & the services they run

Type sets the class of work

A vehicle's type is its broad role — a big-lot tractor, a loader, a compact sidewalk machine. The type shapes what kind of properties make sense for it: you don't want a full-size machine claiming a tight residential walk it can't fit down.

Services decide what it's sent out for

Every vehicle runs a set of service plans — plowing, salting, sidewalk clearing, whatever your plans are. This is what the swarm uses to match a machine to a property's work: a stop only ever goes to a vehicle assigned to that stop's service plan. There are no tags to invent and keep consistent — you just check the plans a machine can do.

Set them up

1. Open the vehicle.
2. Set its Type to the class of machine.
3. Under Work this vehicle does, check every service plan it can be sent out for — a vehicle that both plows and salts gets both checked.
4. Save.

Why this matters for dispatch

The service assignment is a hard gate: a sidewalk-only unit you've assigned to just the sidewalk plan will never be handed a lot-plow job. It cuts the other way too — a service plan with no vehicles assigned has nobody to claim its stops. Snowmass would rather show you that gap than quietly send the wrong machine, so if a plan's work isn't moving, check that at least one vehicle runs it.

Keep assignments honest

• Check only what a machine can actually finish. An over-assigned vehicle grabs work it can't do, which forces a manual re-assign mid-storm.
• Assign every plan to someone. Before a storm, make sure each service plan you sell has at least one vehicle that runs it.
• Update after upgrades — a machine that just got a salt spreader should have the salting plan checked, or the swarm keeps routing salting work around it.