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How to Optimise Your Commercial Van Routes for Time and Cost Saving

Vanaways
Vanaways
9th Jun 2023
How to Optimise Your Commercial Van Routes for Time and Cost Saving

As a business owner, optimising your delivery routes is a smart way to help you cut down on wasted time and extra costs. Route optimisation software could be the answer. Keep reading to find a breakdown of what route optimisation is and how it could help your fleet day to day.

What Is Route Optimisation Software?

Route optimisation is the process of finding the most effective and efficient route, including a range of relevant factors, such as:

  • The number of turns and junctions
  • Right hand turns
  • Traffic analysis on the day
  • The best driver to complete the delivery

By optimising your routes, you can have more accurate ETA’s and work towards better customer satisfaction, as they won’t be waiting around for their delivery all day.

Some of the other benefits of routing software include:

  • Lower fuel costs
  • Better customer satisfaction
  • Reduced vehicle maintenance
  • Faster delivery

These are all ways to improve how your business operates while maintaining, and improving your customer service.

Features Of Optimising Routes

These are some examples of the ways in which route software will help your business to streamline and become more efficient:

Deliver Heavier Items First

The weight of your vehicle will impact the efficiency and fuel consumption. So, delivering your heaviest items first can help your vehicles to run better, and reduce your maintenance costs.

Route optimisation software will help you to plan the most effective routes to facilitate this.

Combination Deliveries & Collections

If you assign collections and deliveries to one driver it could help you to improve efficiency and your turnaround times.

Route planning software can help you massively with this. It can be difficult to plan this out manually, which is why route optimisation is a great tool.

Maximise Vehicle Loads

It may seem obvious, but maximising on your vehicle’s loads and using up every bit of space will help with efficiency too.

Routing software can help you to plan the most efficient routes based on the weight of the vehicle and the goods inside.

Live Updates

This is useful for both customers and employees. By keeping track of live journeys you are able to create visibility with your team and your clients. You can have visible access to the routes your employees are taking and trust that they are the most efficient.

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Routing software can be extremely useful to businesses and help you to save time and money. If you’re interested in finding out more, feel free to contact us today. Our team will be happy to speak to you and answer any questions. Alternatively, head to our website to check out our range of products and services.

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