Even distributors who make the same deliveries to the same customers every week know that no two delivery runs are really the same—order volumes change, new customers enter the mix...
If there’s one thing that sums up the feeling of tighter competition in the delivery industry right now, it might be this: “[m]ore trucking companies exited the market than entered...
When you picture a dispatcher hard at work, what comes to mind? Is it someone behind a desk strewn with slips of paper, picking up a landline phone to call a driver and find out wh...
If you’re reading this, you most likely already know that you need to upgrade your route tracking software—or deploy a route tracking solution for the first time. Getting to that p...
Last mile distribution remains one of the thorniest problems in logistics. Whether you’re trying to get pallets of lumber to busy job sites or delivering cases of beer to big box g...
The larger your business, the more complicated your delivery territories are likely to be—which is saying something, because even if you're just running a few trucks you can easily...
The thing about driver schedules is that the number of permutations scales exponentially with orders—with 2 stops there’s 2 options, with 4 stops there’s 24 options, and by the tim...
Dispatching drivers and technicians by hand is woefully inefficient. Not only does manual dispatching mean that your team spends inordinate amounts of time printing and handing out...
You’re looking for a route optimizer—and you don’t want one of the free, lightweight solutions that come up when you first Google the topic. After all, you’re running a decent numb...
When it comes to getting your last mile logistics processes to run smoothly, it’s hard to overstate the importance of a solid route planner app. Here, we’re not talking about the a...
Finding the right route optimization software for last mile delivery should be a lot easier than it is. Sure, you can get Google to AI-generate an overview for you—and there is val...