(This feature requires a CoPilot add-on license for weather.)

The Weather screen allows you to set the minimum weather-related Road Risk at which CoPilot issues weather alerts to drivers or to back-office personnel assigning routes to drivers. CoPilot ignores weather events below that level. 

Road Risk and Weather Alerts

The Road Risk Index evaluates and quantifies road safety risks for trucks due to weather conditions.  It is trained on machine-learning models built with historical weather, road conditions, topology, traffic patterns, and incident data, among many other things. 

The default value for Road Risk Threshold is 4. When you change the Road Risk Threshold setting, it influences the frequency at which you receive weather alerts—a higher number than 4 means alerts will only be sent with more severe weather. The reverse is also true. 

Change the Road Risk Threshold

To change the setting:

1. Move the slider to select a Minimum Road Risk Threshold. (4 is the default)
2. The message below the slider bar confirms your change.
3. Select Save in the upper, right-hand corner of the screen to finish.

Change Weather Alert Overrides

The Road Risk Threshold is the risk level at which CoPilot or the back office receives a risk summary as well as any alerts for specific weather risks. These specific risks include: Tipping Risk, Wind Speed, Wind Gusts, Temperature, and Visibility. 

However, your fleet may want to be alerted more frequently if it is particularly sensitive to any one or more of those specific risks. Weather Alert Overrides allow you to set levels for when to receive these other alerts—independent of the overall Road Risk. (For example, if you haul a lot of reefers and temperature is especially important to you, then this might be a good option to override.)

To change an Override setting:

1. Click the switch to turn on the override.
2. Move the slider bar to select the value for your alert. 
3. The message below the Minimum Road Risk Threshold slider bar confirms your change.
4. Select Save in the upper, right-hand corner of the screen to finish.