CHALLENGE
RFK Racing’s Show Car division has a routing problem that standard navigation tools can’t solve
CHALLENGE
RFK Racing’s Show Car division has a routing problem that standard navigation tools can’t solve
Every week, the RFK Racing Show Car division’s destinations change.
A dealership in one city, a corporate sponsor's headquarters in another, a multi-block fan festival the week after that. But whether Moore is pulling the 28-foot single-car trailer or the 43-foot two-car hauler, he's working with length, width and weight a passenger-car driver doesn't carry.
A consumer GPS app won't warn a driver about a narrow street, a low-clearance bridge or a restricted-weight road until he's already on it.
Then there are the variables no app knows about until they happen.

I need a two-lane road to make a right or left hand turn. Come to find out, they got a street closed off because they got a water main break or something. So now I have to go to Plan B.

Mint Moore III, Owner, Hauler Driver for Ford Performance, & RFK Racing
That's the job. Pre-plan the route, know the truck, know the city. Then be ready for anything to change on the way in.
Moore does the homework before every trip, pulling satellite views and dropping reference points into his navigation system, but the homework only holds until the first unexpected closure. After that, the work becomes real-time. The driver has to keep moving, keep traffic flowing behind him and make decisions before he can see all of the consequences. That’s where Trimble CoPilot comes in.