Sample Route Survey

In this example scenario, a carrier is planning an oversize move: a piece of processing equipment loaded to a travel height of 5.28 m (17'4") on a 68 km corridor between a fabrication yard and a project site. The desktop data is ambiguous — one bridge on the corridor is listed with a posted clearance close to the travel height, and two sets of overhead utility lines have no reliable published height at all. A wrong guess means a strike, a rejected permit, or an expensive last-minute reroute. The team runs a MeasurePRO route reconnaissance pass to replace the guesswork with measured fact.

The surveyor drives the corridor with the vehicle-mounted SolTec LiDAR system. MeasurePRO continuously records overhead clearances — bridges, wires, signals, sign structures — along with GPS position, at normal traffic speed. Every measurement is paired with synchronized camera capture.

Before leaving the route, the surveyor reviews each logged obstruction: the measured clearance, its GPS location on the map, and the camera frame captured at the same moment. Questionable readings can be re-measured on the spot instead of requiring a second trip. In this scenario, the questionable bridge measures 5.41 m at its lowest beam — 13 cm above the travel height — while the first wire crossing comes back at 5.19 m: lower than the load. The surveyor logs the wire as a constraint POI with its exact GPS position and the synchronized camera frame, and records the field verdict on the spot: the bridge passes, the wire crossing needs the utility contacted or a local detour.

Every reading has proof

Measurements and camera evidence are synchronized, so each clearance value in the survey can be traced back to what the sensor actually saw — a defensible record rather than a bare number.

Back online, the survey syncs to the RoadScope platform. There the full route profile can be inspected: the lowest clearances along the corridor, where they occur, and how they compare against the height of a planned load. Pinch points stand out immediately instead of hiding in a spreadsheet. Here the imported survey shows the corridor profile against the 5.28 m travel height: the bridge clears with margin, the 5.19 m wire crossing is flagged as the controlling constraint, and the second wire crossing measures 5.87 m — a non-issue that no longer needs to be treated as an unknown. Analysis, comparison, and reporting happen in RoadScope; MeasurePRO's job was to bring back the verified field data.

The decision is now defensible: move approved on this corridor, conditional on resolving one identified wire crossing at a known GPS location — with the measurement, the photo, and the LiDAR profile to back it up. The finished survey becomes a route report ready to support permit and abnormal-load applications, route planning decisions, and clearance disputes, and the data can be exported (CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, KML) for use in your own systems.