How WideLoad builds a run

1. It starts with your permit

Drop an NHVR permit PDF into WideLoad and it's read right on your phone by the app's built-in PDF reader. The file is never uploaded — there is no WideLoad server to upload it to. The app extracts the authorised road list: every street, in order, with the locality sections the permit groups them under.

2. Every road, found in the official record

A road name on paper isn't a point on a map. WideLoad locates each road through the Queensland Government's official address and place database, backed by OpenStreetMap for anything the state service can't resolve. Then it goes a step further: each road is matched against the Queensland road register — the state's authoritative record of every named road centreline — and the pin is placed at the junction where the run enters that road, not at some arbitrary point along it. On an outback road 60 kilometres long, that difference is the whole job.

3. Planning A to B? The route is built around your load

For A-to-B planning, WideLoad sends your load's height and width to a truck-aware routing engine built on OpenStreetMap's road network. The engine plans the way a heavy-haulage driver would: it treats your dimensions and a long, heavy vehicle profile as hard constraints, prefers highways, and penalises roads a large combination shouldn't be on. The result is always presented as a proposed route — a starting point for your own checks, never an approval.

4. The clearance scan

The proposed route is then audited against OpenStreetMap's signed clearance data — the height and width limits posted on real bridges, tunnels and underpasses that mappers have recorded across Australia. Anything within 0.3 metres of your height or 0.2 metres of your width is flagged as an advisory hazard, and WideLoad can re-plan around a confirmed obstruction and check again.

Two things this is not: it is not a guarantee, and it is not a clearance. Signed-limit data is community-recorded and can be missing or out of date. An absent hazard flag is not evidence of clearance.

5. State heavy-vehicle overlays

For Queensland, WideLoad draws the Department of Transport and Main Roads heavy-vehicle network — Critical and Major routes — directly on the planning map, live from the state's own spatial services. Queensland has the deepest coverage today; other states' overlays are on the roadmap.

6. The Google Maps handoff

When it's time to drive, WideLoad hands Google Maps pure coordinates — the exact pinned points, not re-typed street names — so nothing drifts in translation. Google Maps caps how many waypoints one trip can hold, so WideLoad splits long runs into legs automatically and opens them one tap at a time from Drive mode.

7. Share it, export it, keep it

Every run can be shared as a link or QR code with the transport team, exported as GPX or KML for other tools, and saved on your device. A share link contains the route's names and coordinates, and the app warns you before creating one: share it only with the intended transport team.

8. Reference library and Ask AI

The built-in reference library links the official national and state documents that govern pilot and escort work, each with a recorded last-reviewed date — links are checked, not assumed current. Ask AI can send your run summary — load dimensions, origin and destination, pinned-street count and your question — to an AI assistant, and always shows you exactly what will be shared before anything leaves the app. AI answers are a starting point only: official documents, permits, notices, conditions and lawful directions take precedence.