What Are the Top Route Tracking Software Solutions for 2025?

If you’re reading this, you most likely already know that you need to upgrade your route tracking software—or deploy a route tracking solution for the first time. Getting to that point is half the battle. But from here, the tricky part is wading through a sea of different routing software options to find the one that works best for your business.

The huge volume of digital ink that’s been spilled on this topic to this point is sort of a mixed blessing in this regard. Sure, reviews and information are out there about the top route tracking software options, but it can be tough to map what’s out there onto your actual routing priorities. 

Luckily, we’re here to help. In this post, we’ll go over the most important requirements for selecting a route tracking solution that will actually yield ROI. We’ll also give a rundown of the top 5 options in the space, as well as a look at how route optimization fits into your larger logistics ops picture. 

Key Takeaways:

• The best route tracking software solutions help reduce logistics costs and improve performance by offering AI-powered ETAs, speed and scalability, and total integration into your larger logistics ops. 
• Some of the top route tracking software solutions to consider are DispatchTrack, Locus, Loginext, and Shipsy—but your exact needs will vary based on your use case. 
• Once you’ve found a few routing software options, it can be helpful to see a live demo and get a rundown of how the software will integrate within your larger tech stack. 

What to Look for in a Route Tracking Solution

Routes are at the heart of delivery and logistics success. They functionally have to bridge the gap between planning and execution, which means that your routing capabilities need to be fully integrated into your logistics process and capable of rapidly turning complex requirements into achievable, cost-effective routes.

This is a tall order, which is why it’s critical to leverage one of the top route tracking software options on the market. 

How do you know whether you’re looking at one of the top solutions? Here are a few key things to look for:

Route tracking capabilities embedded in larger delivery management workflows: 

It might seem like a sensible idea to get a separate solution to specifically handle the routing portion of your logistics, but routing touches so many other aspects of the delivery management process that it’s actually extremely valuable to have it housed within your main solution. This way, your route tracking can inform your larger delivery tracking, your customer communications, and even your delivery documentation. 

AI-powered ETA generation: 

This goes for both generating delivery ETAs during the route planning and optimization phase as well as constantly updating ETAs on your routes in real time as they unfold. (In the former segment, the ability to generate precise, accurate ETAs also goes a long way towards ensuring maximum capacity utilization.) Bonus points if you can configure alerts to automatically go out when a stop on a route slips out of the time window promised to customers.

Speed and scalability:

The ability to generate routes quickly is more than just a parlor trick. It’s the difference between a 2 pm order cutoff time for the next day and a 5 pm order cutoff time for the next day. It’s the difference between being able to generate a new route when you get a slew of cancellations or having to just eat the dead space in your trucks. In short, speed gives you flexibility, which can help you stay efficient even as conditions change. This should work no matter the scale, so you don’t get bogged down as you add trucks. 

4 Route Tracking Solutions to Consider

If you’re in the market for route tracking software, it can be difficult to wade through all the options unaided. Software review sites can help, as can checking with your network, but for a quick rundown of some of the top options to consider in this area, we’ve got a solid starting point with these four route tracking software solutions:

DispatchTrack

DispatchTrack is the global leader in delivery management software, helping 2,500+ companies around the globe promise, deliver, and delight their customers more than 1,000,000 a day. 

A huge part of that comes down to our route optimization capabilities. We leverage AI and machine learning to turn complex sets of parameters into efficient routes with accurate ETAs—meaning that our customers are able to achieve 98% on time delivery rates while cutting their time spent routing by 50-75% or more. 

DispatchTrack was recognized by Gartner® in their 2024 Market Guide for Last-Mile Delivery, and has been shortlisted or named a category leader by Software Advice, GetApp, and Capterra. 

One of the most powerful ways that our solution drives value for customers is by integrating route optimization within your larger last mile delivery and logistics process. We offer route optimization as one component of a last mile management system that includes driver tracking, customer experience management, documentation, and more—in addition to integrating seamlessly into your larger logistics technology stack, including first and middle mile activities. 

The result is a route tracking solution that’s ideal for businesses that grapple with complex, big and bulky deliveries like building supplies, food and beverage, and appliances—as well as the 3PLs that work with them. 

2. Locus

One of the names that you are likely to come across frequently when looking for this type of software is Locus. They have the most ratings on Gartner Peer Insights’ routing section, with a respectable 4.2 average rating. 

Per their website: “Locus’ Route Planning System leverages advanced algorithms to plan ideal routes for scheduled, dynamic, and recurring fulfillment models on a unified platform. It helps businesses manage vehicle journeys and schedules while improving driver performance and distribution operations, to deliver more on a single route.”

The solution’s emphasis is largely on task management and SLA compliance, which can be extremely valuable to businesses for whom those areas are a top challenge. If you’re looking for a route tracking solution with this kind of focus, Locus can be a great pick. 

3. LogiNext

In their own words: “LogiNext's software as a service (SaaS) product caters for various sectors including Courier, Express and Parcel, Quick Service Restaurant chains, Retail & eCommerce, and Transportation. The company has achieved a global presence, working with numerous organisations across over 50 nations.”

Their Peer Review ratings are comparable to Locus—in both quantity and quality. But the key difference here is in the focus. LogiNext has staked out the parcel and courier area as their main focus, and their solution is designed around the problems that are unique to those use cases. 

This includes features like schedule planning and live tracking, and less ubiquitous items like gamification for drivers via their driver mobile app. They represent a strong option in the parcel and courier space. 

4. Shipsy

Shipsy bills itself as: “Intelligent Delivery Planning To Boost Customer Experience,” and that’s what they aim to provide for their target markets: quick service restaurants; courier, express, and parcel; retail; manufacturing; logistics; and freight forwarders.

Users on review sites have mentioned the convenience of their real-time routing capabilities and other features. Like LogiNext, it could be a good option if you’re in one of their core use cases, less so if you need more complicated routing capabilities such as calendar based routing, routing by skill level, etc. 

Conclusion: You’ve Got to See It to Believe It

Route optimization doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It can impact your logistics ops both upstream and downstream by integrating live data into ETA predictions, efficiency enhancements, and more. Simply put, it’s the cornerstone of more effective logistics across the board—which means choosing a powerful solution that’s tailored to your needs is key. 

At the end of the day, there’s a limit to how much review sites and software buying guides can tell you. If you’re in the market to level up your route optimization and route tracking capabilities, once you’ve whittled down your list to a core handful of options there’s really no substitute for seeing the software in action. 

If we’ve piqued your curiosity about DispatchTrack’s route optimization solution, we’d love to show it off for you. Book a demo and we’ll reach out and find some time to walk through how our solution can level up your routing capabilities and reduce your logistics costs.