Orbit Cockpit
It's Time to Deliver.
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
To use Orbit Cockpit as a driver app, your organisation must have an account with Orbit.
Orbit Cockpit offers accurate navigation via your preferred navigation app, such as Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze. Keep track of your schedule with tour information accurate to the second. Effortlessly capture proof of delivery (e.g. photos, signatures, documents).
Orbit – It's time to deliver.
more - Complete Signing Summaries: The signing summary and the delivery receipt now cover every load of a shipment, including loads left behind during loading, so a partial delivery is recorded as partial instead of failed. NVEs can also come from the booked load, not only from what the driver scanned.
- Identify Results Load Reliably: Scanning a label that matches a load already on the device no longer leaves the Identify card stuck on its loading placeholder. The matched load now appears straight away.
1.14.3 Aug 20
- ePOD at Pickup and Delivery: At a pickup or a delivery, the shipper or recipient now signs on the driver's phone themselves: a summary of the shipment's loads, a signature or a documented refusal, and photos where your configuration requires them. Available once ePOD is activated for your organization, and in production only after the Lightyear Layover platform release reaches production. Learn more: https://support.orbit.do/article/documented-signatures-and-delivery-receipts
- No Skipping a Required Proof: The missing-proof warning has lost its Skip button. Where a stop requires a photo or a signature, the only way on is to record it, and the stop will not finish without it.
- Confirm Before Marking Unscanned Loads: With the load scanner on, marking all of a stop's loads successful now asks first, naming how many are still unscanned. Confirming goes ahead as before; with nothing unscanned, the tap stays a single tap.
- Email Keyboard on iOS Sign-In: Signing in and resetting a password now open the iOS email keyboard, with autocorrect and capitalization off, so an address is submitted exactly as the driver typed it.
- Long Tour Names Stay Readable: A long tour name no longer pushes the distance over the status icon in the tour list or on an Identify result, and comment timestamps count up properly instead of sticking at "in 0 seconds".
1.14.2 Aug 17
- Clearer Loading Scan: Loading headers now name the sender as well as the recipient, tapping a load opens a detail sheet with its full address and load data, one action fails a whole shipment's loads at once, and a matched scan marks the load instantly — no confirm tap.
- Scan Before Proof at Delivery Stops: Arriving at a delivery stop now opens the scanner straight away, and the required signature or photo is requested right after scanning. Drivers no longer dismiss a proof prompt to reach the scanner, and never leave a stop without its proof.
- Scans Survive Leaving a Tour: In-progress load marks, including failure reasons, now survive leaving and re-entering a tour instead of resetting to zero. A failed or offline submission keeps them for a retry.
- Login in the Driver's Language: Sign-in, password recovery and their error messages now follow the device language from the very first screen instead of defaulting to English, and reset to it after each sign-out on shared devices.
- Confirm Carrier Terms Before Accepting: Offers that carry terms statements now show a confirmation checkbox for each one. Accept and bid stay disabled until every statement is confirmed, while declining remains available at any time.
- Related Comments on a Tour: Drivers now see carrier-visible comments from a tour's shipments and orders in the same feed, each marked with a chip naming its source. Comments pulled in this way are read-only.
1.14.1 Aug 6
- Identify Any Package Barcode: Identify now reads any label on the package: a shipper's NVE/SSCC, a load reference, or a code stored on the load. Scan it and Identify shows the load and its tour, with no Orbit QR code needed.
- Tour Comments: Drivers read and post comments on a tour, with a rich editor, emoji reactions, and threaded replies. The whole conversation stays on the tour instead of across calls and messages. It goes live once Comments reaches the platform in the upcoming release.
- Fair Start on Offers: Every carrier gets an equal shot at a new offer. While the fair-start window is open, a live countdown shows when Accept and Bid unlock, so nobody can grab the job first. Carriers can still decline at any time. It becomes available once Fair Start is enabled across the platform in the upcoming release.
- Reliable Background GPS on Android: The app keeps sending location even after Android suspends or kills it in the background, so location tracking no longer cuts out between stops on long tours. Drivers who grant location access no longer land on the system settings screen by mistake.
- Per-Recipient Proof at Combined Stops: At a combined dropoff, drivers capture one proof per recipient, each tagged with its company name. Before, a single proof covered the whole stop.
- Localized Combined-Stop Labels: Combined-stop labels now appear in the driver's own language instead of English, and show whether the stop is a combined pickup or dropoff.
1.14.0 Jul 18
- Significant Performance Improvements: The app is significantly faster and smoother throughout — tour lists, tour details, the inbox, and live updates all respond noticeably quicker, even with hundreds of tours. Startup is more reliable too: a proper loading screen replaces the blank splash, and a recovery screen with retry appears if data can't be loaded.
- Geo-Stamped Proof Capture: Signatures and photos captured in Cockpit now automatically record the driver's GPS location and accuracy when available, without ever blocking or delaying capture.
- Waste Data Visibility: AVV/EWC code, hazardous classification, and Basel code now appear for each load, alongside a warning when the assigned carrier lacks the required waste-transport qualification.
- German Translation Fixes: German-speaking drivers now see accurate German labels for tour and delivery statuses, including starting and stopping a tour, instead of English text that previously appeared by mistake.
1.13.1 Jul 8
- Dangerous Goods Visibility: Dangerous-goods (ADR) status and points now appear for each load and for the whole tour, with a clear "Full ADR required" flag for the strictest category and an alert when details are incomplete so drivers can flag it with dispatch.
- Smarter Tour Change Banners: Drivers now see a tour-change banner only for running tours they are personally assigned to, so they no longer get alerts about other drivers' tours from the same carrier.
- Smoother Tours List: The tours list and 3D load plan now render more smoothly.
1.13.0 Jun 2
- Always Open Driving Directions: Tapping "Open in Maps" from a stop now always launches driving directions, so drivers no longer have to switch from walking or transit mode manually.
- Improved Scrolling in the Load Scanner: The load scanner now scrolls smoothly through the full list of loads at a stop, even when many loads are assigned.
- More Resilient Barcode Matching: The load scanner now matches barcodes that include extra prefix data, so common label formats are recognized without drivers having to retype codes by hand.
1.12.7 May 7
- Signature with Signer Name: Drivers can now capture a signature alongside the signer's name as proof of delivery, with an optional comment for added context and clearer accountability at handover.
- Load Scanner Stability Improvements: Multiple fixes to the load scanner make scanning more reliable, including smoother list scrolling, more robust scan handling, and better navigation when jumping to a tour from a scanned code.
1.12.2 Apr 28
- Per-Shipment Contacts on Shared Stops: When multiple shipments share a stop, drivers now see the correct contact and loading point for each shipment individually, instead of just the first one, ensuring accurate handovers.
- Smarter Failed Pickup Handling: When all loads at a pickup fail, the corresponding drop-off is automatically removed so drivers skip empty stops. Failed loads now display clear status indicators throughout the tour.
- Improved Barcode Scanning Bounding Box: The scanner's focus box now precisely matches the visible camera view, with a small tolerance zone so barcodes scanned just outside the drawn target still register reliably.
- Accurate Time-at-Stop Counter: The elapsed time counter on a stop now updates continuously instead of freezing on its first value, giving drivers a correct view of time spent at each location.
1.12.1 Apr 23
- Proof Upload After Arrival: Proof capture buttons are now disabled until the driver marks a stop as arrived, preventing premature proof submissions and ensuring accurate documentation.
- Tap Load for Details: Drivers can now tap any load in the Stop View to see its full details, including the pickup and delivery stops it travels through.
1.12.0 Apr 17
Improvements and bug fixes
1.11.5 Apr 11
Improvements and bug fixes
1.11.4 Apr 10
Improvements and bug fixes
1.11.3 Mar 25
Improvements and bug fixes
1.11.2 Mar 3
Orbit Identify, Load Status Tracking with Scanner and Stop Reordering
1.11.1 Feb 11
Minor bug fixes and general improvements
1.11.0 Jan 28
Minor bug fixes and general improvements
1.10.2 Jan 13
Minor bug fixes and general improvements
1.10.1 11/26/2025
Minor bug fixes and general improvements.
1.10.0 11/24/2025
Small bug fixes and general improvements
1.9.2 11/12/2025
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements.
1.9.1 10/20/2025
Dieses Update erhöht die Geschwindigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit der App. Zudem verbessert es die Darstellung von Extras und Angeboten.
1.9.0 08/06/2025
Dieses Update verbessert die Darstellung von Extras.
1.8.5 04/17/2025
Dieses Update verbessert die Darstellung von Angebotsbedingungen.
1.8.4 02/18/2025
- Filteroptionen für Angebote: Schneller Wechsel zwischen allen verfügbaren Angeboten und einer übersichtlichen Liste der teilgenommenen Angebote.
- Kompaktansicht: Eine neue, platzsparende Listenansicht zeigt mehr Angebote gleichzeitig an – einfaches Umschalten zur klassischen Kartenansicht möglich.
- Benachrichtigungen: Verbesserte Zuverlässigkeit für Benachrichtigungen und Echtzeit-Updates.
1.8.3 02/07/2025
- Complete Signing Summaries: The signing summary and the delivery receipt now cover every load of a shipment, including loads left behind during loading, so a partial delivery is recorded as partial instead of failed. NVEs can also come from the booked load, not only from what the driver scanned.
- Identify Results Load Reliably: Scanning a label that matches a load already on the device no longer leaves the Identify card stuck on its loading placeholder. The matched load now appears straight away.
more Version 1.14.3 Aug 20
Data Linked to You The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location Contact Info User Content Identifiers Usage Data Data Not Linked to You The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity: