Hi All,
Completed my 1st shift today on multidrop!! Loved every minute of it.
I was wondering though what people’s thoughts were on the way you organise your drops?
Do people prefer to do the more local ones 1st and work out outwards as it were then leave the longer drive bk at the end of the day.
Or do you start with the furthest away and work back towards the yard?
Or is there a happy medium, a ‘circle’ type route the best?
Cheers
TT
I like to do the furthest then work my way back, but you can have timed deliveries on board, so you have to work around those, sometimes you might have to go miles past one place then come back to it later. We get Manifests to work with, most of the time they are in some sort of order, so just use that & blame it on the office when it all goes Pete Tong. [emoji6]
No hard and fast rules, starting at the furthest away might suit you best given no timed slots, but if there are surprise collections afterwards at max radius you might have shot yourself in the foot.
Juddian:
No hard and fast rules, starting at the furthest away might suit you best given no timed slots, but if there are surprise collections afterwards at max radius you might have shot yourself in the foot.
We had a chap like that when I did MD . He’d gone to his 1st drop then had a collection of 10 boxes him thinking easy day got there to find 10 boxes the size of IBC’s 
worked out to be a very long day for him that day
I go with what order they are on run sheets unless its a really stupid run.
I spend extra time sorting them into a half decent run as Lord know what fairy tree our planner banged his head falling out of.
I use an app on phone to put all runs in, tell it to ‘optimise’ then then look at any timed I have and adjust to suit.
Once you get to know any frequents drops its gets far easier to put into a run order
dcgpx:
I spend extra time sorting them into a half decent run as Lord know what fairy tree our planner banged his head falling out of.I use an app on phone to put all runs in, tell it to ‘optimise’ then then look at any timed I have and adjust to suit.
Once you get to know any frequents drops its gets far easier to put into a run order
You mind naming that app pls, dcgpx?
Going to watch this post over the next couple of weeks as it is going to be personally quite useful.
I had a little search around and found amoungst other suggestions, the following:
Also mentioned was Autoroute, but I believe that was discontinued at the end of 2014.
Currently following that up, but it seems Bing Maps has replaced it - although I know nothing of its functionality as yet.
Cheers,
Jon
Not a special app or anything. I use Co-Pilot GPS maps. I like the fact it shows all stops as flags so I can get a good visualisation of general days layout and how much zig zagging I might be able to avoid !!