Convoy management
Convoy management and field security operations
A convoy is more than a group of vehicles: it has a route, an escort, a cargo, a set of checks and a reporting obligation. Sonalit treats it as one object from planning through arrival, so the control room and the officers on the road are never working from different versions of the same journey.
Convoy planning
Plan the convoy before it leaves
Vehicles, drivers, cargo and the officers responsible are attached to the convoy up front, and the intended route is recorded so any deviation later has something to be measured against.
- Convoy records built from vehicles, drivers and cargo
- Convoy field officer (CFO) assignment per convoy
- Planned route and corridor recorded at creation
- Route risk assessed before dispatch
- Truck and escort composition managed per journey
- Client and cargo owner context attached to the convoy
Convoy monitoring
Watch the corridor, not just the dot
Convoy positions are evaluated against the corridor they are supposed to be in and the risk profile of the ground they are covering, so operators are alerted to the situation rather than left to interpret a map.
Corridor evaluation
The convoy's position is continuously evaluated against its planned corridor, turning a route departure into an alert instead of a discovery.
Route risk ranking
Routes are scored against known risk along the way, giving planners a basis for choosing one corridor over another.
Geofence rules
Zones that matter — depots, checkpoints, restricted ground — raise events when a convoy enters or leaves them.
Seal integrity
Seal checks are recorded against the convoy, so a break in cargo integrity is a timestamped, attributable event.
Panic escalation
A panic signal from the field escalates immediately into the operator's queue with the convoy and location attached.
Live convoy view
Operators see the convoy, its vehicles and its recent events together rather than assembling the picture from separate screens.
Field coordination
Built for the officer on the road, too
Convoy field officers work from a mobile surface designed for their job — not a shrunken operator dashboard. What they submit from the road becomes the operational record the control room reads.
- A dedicated convoy companion application for field officers
- Checks and status updates submitted from the journey itself
- Photo evidence captured against the convoy it belongs to
- Two-way messaging between field officers and operators
- Incident reporting from the field into the operations queue
- Offline-tolerant capture for stretches with poor coverage
Operational reporting
A convoy report that writes itself
Daily and per-convoy reports are assembled from what was actually recorded during the journey — positions, checks, photos, alerts and incidents — so reporting is a by-product of running the operation rather than a separate task.
The same vehicles are usually managed day to day through fleet management, and convoy alerts land in the same queue described under security operations.
Run convoys with the corridor under continuous watch
If your organisation already runs convoys on Sonalit, sign in to the operations platform. If you are evaluating it, tell us about the corridors you move and we will follow up.