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This document describes a number of related activities you can do with Fleet
Engine to manage shipments.
Reroute a shipment
Once a shipment task has been created, its planned location can't be changed. To
reroute a shipment, close the shipment task without setting an outcome, and then
create a new task with the updated planned location and include the same
tracking ID used on the closed task. After creating the new task, assign the
task to the same vehicle. For more information, see Close a task and
Update delivery vehicle tasks.
When a shipment task is completed, the task state and outcome are recorded
in the task. However, you may want to update other meta information
specific to the shipment. To store other meta information that you can
reference outside the Fleet Engine service, use the tracking_id associated
with the task as a key in an external table.
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Last updated 2025-02-20 UTC.
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