You’re probably familiar with Route Planning, which lets you add one address after another into Google Maps or into your favorite navigation system.
With Route Planning, you visit the addresses in the sequence you requested. It’s that simple!
However, when you need to visit more than 10 locations per route, you need Route Optimization to re-sequence the stops on your route so that you visit them without zig-zagging all over town.
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Routing, Mapping, Navigation: What It Really Takes To Optimize Your Routes
Route Optimization
2. You’re probably familiar with Route Planning, which
lets you add one address after another into Google
Maps or into your favorite navigation system.
With Route Planning, you visit the addresses in the
sequence you requested. It’s that simple!
However, when you need to visit more than 10
locations per route, you need Route Optimization to
re-sequence the stops on your route so that you visit
them without zig-zagging all over town.
You need route optimization because it is very
difficult for a person to visualize and sequence the
order in which addresses should be visited, especially
when there are dozens of addresses in an unfamiliar
part of town.
More stops, means more
possibilities- a real brain teaser!
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3. ● Route Optimization is used to determine the optimal sequence in which people will visit different
locations for highest efficiency
● The primary goal is to minimize time and money spent on transportation costs: time, fuel, and vehicle
repairs
● Savvy business owners use Route Optimization to slash up to 39% off fuel costs (shorter routes), reduce
drive time (payroll savings), and service vehicles less often (fewer miles)
● There are millions of small businesses in the US, and many of them have employees or subcontractors who
need to visit customer locations: pickups, dropoffs, service calls
● Because they are driving to multiple locations for business purposes, it obviously means some portion of
their time is spent driving around…
● Route Optimization basically reduces your business transportation costs
Why Do Businesses Even Bother With
Route Optimization?
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4. ● Then there are hidden optimization nuances that
sophisticated route planning software
automatically considers for you:
⚬ Incorporating time of day and time of year
road-traffic patterns,
⚬ Impact of road closures and construction,
⚬ Different service times for different work types
(pickup, drop off, service)
● As you can see, planning routes manually when
hundreds of customer locations are involved is
extremely time consuming, challenging, and
inaccurate when done by a human being.
Manual Planning is Time-
Consuming & Ineffective
● Determining the sequence in which your drivers
should visit customer locations is extremely
complicated
● The more drivers and customers you have, the
more combinations exist in which you might visit
them.
● Do you go from the office to customer 1? Then 2,
then 3, then 7, back to 4, 5, and 6?
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5. Having Trouble
with Route
Planning?
Route planning fundamentals are
usually the same whether you have
1 driver or 5,000 drivers
It might be because Route
optimization is not your main area
of expertise
Route planning is extremely time
consuming and frustrating without
automatic software
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6. Do you find yourself saying YES
to any of the questions below?
● Do you cringe at the mere thought of having
to plan routes for yourself and your drivers?
● Do you try to find any excuse to avoid
planning driving routes?
● Do you go blank when it comes time to plan
routes at the very last minute or when your
customer list changes?
● Do you suffer from migraine headaches
trying to plan routes?
● Do you ever worry if your employees are
doing a good job at a customer's location?
● Do you feel frustrated when driving routes
change and you have to waste time
explaining all the changes to new drivers?
● Are you ever concerned that your
employees are underperforming because
they despise you for giving them really
terrible driving routes?
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7. What took you many hours…
now takes less than 10 minutes
High-Quality Route Optimization
software tests billions of scenarios
in less than a minute to plan your
optimized route!
Ask yourself: How long would
that have taken me to do?
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8. Uses Real Roads, NOT As-The-Crow-Flies
Professional route planning software will know the
exact driving distance between all the points. It will
not tell you to swim across lakes, rivers, or hop over
backyard fences.
The following features are critical to
succeed with Route Optimization
Automated Route Planning
Whether you’ve got 5 stops or 25, great route
planning software will calculate routes for all your
drivers in seconds.
Easy Address Importing & Selection
Take your client list and keep it in one place. When
you need a driver to visit that address, it will be put
into the correct route for the best driver.
Arranges Stops in the Perfect Sequence
For minimizing your driver's time on the road, a key
factor is having an optimized sequence of stops. It
prevents your drivers from zig–zagging all over
town.
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9. Important
Things To Keep
In Mind
Does It Require You To Purchase New Equipment?
● If you have to shell out thousands of dollars for new equipment, make sure it's
worth it to your business. Some route planning software runs through a website
or as a mobile phone app…significantly reducing your costs of purchase.
Does It Come With a Free Trial and Free Setup?
● Setting up an account can be a lot of work, so you want to be sure that you
either get a free trial or the account is setup for you, ready to be used.
Is the Pricing Digestible or is it Outrageous?
● Many route optimization companies charge extra by the vehicle or driver
instead of a fixed monthly cost.
Does the route planner software have ways to track your drivers?
● A great route planning system should also be a tool for improving driver
efficiency and accountability. Having the ability to track every driving expense
automatically should be a key component of any route planner.
Is the Route Planning Software Simple to Use?
● Make sure that you or your employees have the capacity to use the software to
it’s fullest potential.
● The software should be very user friendly, hiding all the complex math
equations totally out of sight
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10. Does the route planner software have ways to track
my drivers?
● A great route planning system should also be a tool for
improving driver efficiency and accountability. Having
the ability to track every driving expense automatically
should be a key component of any route planner.
Is the Route Planning Software Simple to Use?
● Make sure that you or your employees have the
capacity to use the software to it’s fullest potential.
● The software should be very user friendly, hiding all the
complex math equations totally out of sight
Considerations When Purchasing
Route Optimization Tools
Does It Require Me To Purchase New Equipment?
● If you have to shell out thousands of dollars for new
equipment, make sure it's worth it to your business.
Some route planning software runs through a website
or as a mobile phone app…significantly reducing your
costs of purchase.
Does It Come With a Free Trial and Free Setup?
● Setting up an account can be a lot of work, so you want
to be sure that you either get a free trial or the account
is setup for you, ready to be used.
Is the Pricing Digestible or is it Outrageous?
● Many route optimization companies charge extra by
the vehicle or driver instead of a fixed monthly cost.
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11. Results You Should Expect
With Route Optimization
Route optimization software should give
you at least these top benefits:
● A substantial reduction in the time it takes you to
plan a route
● Reduce the amount of time drivers spend on the
road
● Allow you to add constraints to your routes, such
as specific time windows or vehicle capacities
● Lets you make changes to routes and see which
drivers are actually doing their job
● Real time tracking, so you can see where your
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12. Route4Me makes sharing and changing routes totally
effortless because your employees smartphone is always up
to date with the latest route information.
● No more printed paper manifests or manually loading
routes into a GPS system.
● Plan routes in seconds and automatically share them to
drivers.
● The best part about Route4Me is how easy it is to use.
● You don’t need specialized skills or a dedicated computer
to manage Route4Me
● The work can be done on your mobile phone and web-
browser.
● All changes made on your laptop are instantly and
automatically synchronized to the driver's smartphone.
More stops, means more
possibilities- a real brain
teaser!
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To Meet Your Needs
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