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What does driving between stops cost you?

Every minute a crew spends driving between stops is paid time and fuel that no customer is paying for. Enter your numbers to see what it adds up to each week, month and year.

Also used for the drive out from the yard and back.

Wage plus payroll costs.

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Fuel, tyres and maintenance. Fuel alone is your fuel price divided by your miles per gallon.

$3,698 a month

$44,373 a year · $853 a week

26.7 hours and 667 miles of driving each week

  • Wages while driving: $2,542 a month
  • Vehicle costs: $1,156 a month

That's about $370 a month back.

How much you can cut depends on how your routes are planned today. This is an estimate, not a promise.

Routova's Team plan covers up to 3 crews for $99 a month (US dollars). At these numbers it would pay for itself about 4 times over.

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Each afternoon Routova builds tomorrow's route for every driver, groups stops by area and puts them in order by real road drive times. Route optimization is on every plan.

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How this calculator works

It multiplies the drives each vehicle makes in a day (one to each stop, plus the drive back to the yard) by your average drive time, then by your vehicles and workdays. Driving hours are costed at your hourly rate for everyone in the vehicle, and the distance at your cost per mile or kilometre. A month is 52 weeks divided by 12.

Where drive time comes from

Most of it isn't the customer on the far side of town. It's the small backtracks: a stop added at the end of the day because a customer called late, a route kept in the order accounts were signed, two trucks crossing the same neighbourhood. Each one is a few minutes, every day, for every vehicle.

Ways to cut it

  • Keep each area on its own day, so a truck isn't crossing town for one stop.
  • Put each day's stops in driving order before the truck leaves, using real road times rather than straight lines.
  • Give each crew its own start point, so the first and last drives count from where the truck actually parks.
  • Move a single visit without moving the whole schedule, so one rain day doesn't scramble next week's routes.

Questions

Does it count the drive from the yard?
Yes. Each vehicle makes one drive to each stop plus one back to the yard, all at your average drive time. If your yard is far from your service area, raise the average to match.
Why count wages and not just fuel?
Because crews are paid while they drive. The calculator shows both amounts separately so you can see which is larger for you.
How much can route optimization save?
It depends on how routes are planned today. Routes kept in sign-up order or built from memory usually have more to gain than routes already planned area by area. Try a few percentages on the slider to see the range.
Is this calculator free?
Yes. No sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser.