Built by people who read permits
for a living.
Pinned Route started with a hard truth: pilot car drivers almost never get time to plot a route by hand. Trucking companies are rolling before you're set up, and figuring it out on the fly — with an oversize load already behind you — isn't an inconvenience. It's dangerous.
Why we built this
Oversize and commercial permits carry everything a driver needs — route, coordinates, restrictions — but none of it talks to a GPS. In theory, someone could sit down and enter it by hand. In practice, nobody does, because nobody has that kind of time. Trucking companies rush the load out, and pilot drivers are expected to already know where they're going. Trying to work that out on the fly, mid-drive, with a load that can weigh half a million pounds behind you, is a real hazard — not a paperwork issue.
Pinned Route reads the permit and builds the route before you're moving. Nothing left to work out once the wheels turn.
What we believe
- There's no safe time to do this by hand. If a driver has to work out a route once the load is already moving, that's a hazard we should be designing away, not a training issue.
- Your route is yours. We don't need to keep a copy of where you've been to do our job.
- Software for drivers should work like the road does — fast, direct, no detours.
Where we are now
Pinned Route is in beta with a group of commercial drivers who scan real permits and give us real feedback. Extracted routes are matched to road networks automatically, but we still ask every driver to verify against their official permit before travel — a habit worth keeping no matter how good the software gets.
What's next
Wider permit format support, faster extraction, and continued work on keeping route data off any server it doesn't need to touch. If you're a commercial driver interested in trying it, we'd like to hear from you.
A dedication
This is built in memory of Kaleb — the kind of person who loved simple things and was good at appreciating them: hunting, fishing, time with people he cared about. He was lost in an accident involving a semi trailer.
Distracted driving already takes too many lives — texting alone has proven that. It's not acceptable that in 2026, drivers are still forced to work out a route by hand while a load is already moving, eyes and attention pulled from the road at the exact moment it matters most. That's why Pinned Route exists. If it saves even one life, it's doing something that matters more than the business ever will.
Try it on your next permit
We're onboarding commercial drivers into the beta now.