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At ROC, We Find the Most Efficient Routes for Waste Collection Companies

No Paper Maps Needed! High-Tech, Software-Driven Route Planning by Route Optimization Consultants

Operate a Fleet of Garbage Trucks? We Optimize Routes and Improve Waste Collection Operations

Cut right to the chase with Route Optimization Consultants. You provide us with the area your garbage trucks have to cover and the time windows they have to cover it in, and we produce a mathematically sound, software-powered, highly efficient route planning solution that’ll have your trucks maximizing their time out in the field!

You already know the positive impact that driving more efficient routes can mean for your solid waste collection company’s bottom line.

At ROC, we leverage the computing power of state-of-the-art waste management routing software to optimize routes for garbage trucks. No longer is a waste management company doomed to using old-fashioned paper maps to devise a routing plan. We use sophisticated applications such as EasyRoute, FleetRoute, RouteSmart, and other fleet management software to create routes that increase waste-collection efficiency while making your drivers even more productive during their working hours.

The mission of Route Optimization Consultants is to ensure our waste-collection clients send their garbage trucks out on optimal routes . . . so they can provide better service to their own customers.

Your Full-Service Solid Waste Collection Fleet Management System

We Make It Easy To Drive More Efficient Waste Collection Routes

You have dozens of garbage trucks that need to cover a wide range of residential areas – different neighborhoods depending on the day. You know your route productivity could be improved, but the arduous nature of route planning and implementation makes it virtually impossible to change things for the better.

That’s where Route Optimization Consultants comes in. We configure the fleet routing software, collect and input the real-time data, run the program, and work directly with the waste collection company and its drivers to implement the optimized routes the software comes up with.

We become part of your team to make sure each garbage truck is driving the most efficient route so you serve customers better, collect and dispose of more solid waste more quickly, and exceed customer expectations.

Solid Waste Collection Fleet Management Software Is Exceedingly Complex

Route Planning Is Difficult and So Is the Route Planning Software

Garbage truck routing isn’t easy. If it were, there wouldn’t need to be entire software packages devoted to determining the best routes for a fleet of garbage trucks to run.

But there are such garbage route software packages, and with good reason: Finding the best collection routes for your garbage trucks is an inherently complex problem to solve – so any software capable of determining the most efficient routes must likewise be highly complex.

What’s so complicated about garbage truck route planning software? If you’re in the solid waste collection business, you can probably guess: Variables. There are a lot of variables involved in waste collection operations – number of trucks in the fleet, vehicle types, time windows, fuel consumption, operational costs, etc. – so the solution to maximum route productivity requires inputting accurate real-time data.

With reliable data, the software is a powerful tool for producing useful data insights, cost savings, and greater operational efficiency for companies in the garbage collection business.

Team Up With ROC and Fix Your Vehicle Routing Optimization Problem

Route Optimization Consultants Has Devised Waste Collection Routes for a Wide Variety of Clients

We know the garbage collection business fairly well. We should, because Route Optimization Consultants has been in the garbage truck route optimization business for long enough to create routes for literally dozens of waste management providers and thousands of their vehicles.

The total cost reduction from Route Optimization Consultants‘ many route planning projects reaches well into tens of millions of dollars. That’s a lot of cost savings for waste collection businesses – whether that’s a city beholden to its taxpaying public, or a commercial waste collection company serving its business customers.

It’s simple to understand why efficient routes are so cost-effective. Whether your service areas are rural with collection points spread expansively out, or you serve high-density major areas with collection points clustered close together, more efficient waste collection routes means less fuel consumption, therefore lower fuel cost. It also means lower maintenance costs, because theoretically each vehicle is in operation as little as possible (preventing unnecessary miles, wear-and-tear, and work for your drivers). It furthermore means your waste collection vehicles can meet tight yet realistic schedules.

And it means better service and exceeding customer expectations.

Full-Service Route Optimizers for Garbage Collection Vehicles

We Work With Your Team, Or We Can Do the Route Optimization for You

However much assistance your waste collection fleet needs to drive optimized routes and provide better service, that’s how much Route Optimization Consultants can help. That is, our experts can work side-by-side with your route planners and vehicle drivers to devise route planning with realistic schedules . . . or you can just leave the entire problem to us, and let us produce the best waste collection route your fleet could feasibly run in its service area.

No matter what level of service you need, ROC is there to provide it. We’re there to help you manage the implementation of new routes, making sure your drivers are all on the same page. In addition, we’re there to assist you in using the advanced waste management routing software, making sure you get the most out of that extremely complex, but just as valuable, tool.

Route Optimization Consultants is a turn-key garbage truck routing solution for waste collection businesses.

Which Route Planning Software To Use? The Choice Is Yours

As Our Client, You Decide the Vehicle Routing Software That Works Best for Your Waste Management Company

There are several feature-rich fleet management software applications available on the market that will provide excellent routes for waste collection. At Route Optimization Consultants, we frequently work with some of the leading software packages in the vehicle-routing space, including RouteSmart, EasyRoute, and FleetRoute. Each of these – as we’ve learned over the years – has its pros and cons.

But fear not – you’re not flying solo when choosing which routing software to use. The experts at ROC are readily accessible to you, giving useful advice as to which of those software programs would be recommended for your specific situation.

Sometimes, we have reason to suggest using multiple software applications, depending upon the phase of the garbage truck routing project.

Our route productivity consultancy firm is entirely vendor-neutral. Yes, we advise and recommend, but ultimately we defer to the client’s preference in routing software – because we want you to be as comfortable as possible about the waste collection route solution we help put into daily operation.

ROC Makes Waste Collection Under Tight Schedules Possible!

We Consider Everything, from Fuel Usage to Winter Maintenance

Computers can solve complex problems faster and more precisely than humans can. Don’t worry; they’re not rising up against us any time soon – we humans still have a pretty good grip on controlling cybertechnology. But it’s true that computational power increases steadily over time, and nowadays computers (of some form or another) are able to perform seemingly countless calculations per second, outputting a stream of correct answers.

We put this power to work for you.

Imagine focusing the immense capacity of modern computer tech on a problem such as routing garbage trucks. You know how many variables there are to manage – different waste-collection vehicle types in the fleet, varying driver skills and experience levels, fuel consumption, strict travel-time windows and limited working hours. An exceedingly difficult, arduous, mathematically rigorous and challenging task for us mere mortals . . . but just another series of ones and zeroes for the software to intrepret.

There’s one major advantage of employing such software for enhanced route productivity: You, as the waste collection operations company, get to set priorities. Whatever parameters are most important to your business, Route Optimization Consultants makes sure our route planning services conform to your business goals.

Work with ROC and harness the power of tested, proven, top-recommended routing software for more efficient waste collection routes.

The Basics of Garbage Truck Fleet Routing Design

Strict Time Windows, Service Boundaries, the Number and Sequence of Collection Points, and More

No two routing scenarios are exactly alike. Every situation is unique, so every route planning problem demands an equally unique route planning solution.

The design of a fleet management routing scheme requires three essential components: Schedule, Sequence, and Boundary.

These terms are fairly self-explanatory. A route’s schedule is the timeframe during which the waste collection fleet must visit and collect all pick-up points. A route’s sequence is simply the order in which stops along the route are visited. The boundary of a route is the geographic extent that your routing plan has to cover.

For waste collection businesses, each of these three parameters is important for accurate vehicle-route productivity – and rarely are they the same from one business to another.

That’s why it pays to work with a nimble, versatile, experienced firm like Route Optimization Consultants. We know what’s important to solid waste collection businesses in general – but we also listen to each client to understand what’s most important to how they do business.

Customization is key. When your company’s objective function is to provide superior waste collection services by ensuring your fleet of vehicles is driving the most efficient routes, a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all solution will not suffice. It takes customized solutions (and powerful software) to calculate the optimal waste collection route that’ll have the greatest impact on the efficient operations of your business.

Waste Collection Requires High-Density Routing Services

There’s Also Paired Routing and Point-to-Point Routing Techniques Which Might Apply

Let’s get a little bit into the weeds here, so to speak. An algorithm is a set of processes designed to solve a problem. Waste management routing software uses different kinds of algorithms to solve different vehicle routing problems.

Typically, solid waste collection routes require “high-density” routing. That refers to routes that operate on a regular, fixed schedule and within a contiguous, defined boundary. Within those parameters, the software can determine the collection sequence that results in optimal routes.

Generally, there are two other categories of software-driven route planning: “Point-to-point” and “paired.” Point-to-point routing could be useful for designing a commercial waste collection route wherein the sequence is set, but the boundary may vary. And paired routing is applicable for trash-truck drivers who need to make multiple trips to the disposal site during their route.

When you need to manage and improve the routes of trash collection vehicles and drivers, the smart decision is to let the routing software do all the hard work.

Get a Free Initial Consultation with Route Optimization Consultants

Contact ROC by Phone, Web, or Email for Proven Fleet Management Services

Make the next right move toward more efficient routes and an improved bottom line. Make an appointment with the experts of Route Optimization Consultants.

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Place all those old, out-of-date, inefficient paper maps in the recycling bin. Let the power of waste collection vehicle routing software – combined with the experience and expertise of Route Optimization Consultants – come up with the most efficient fleet management solutions possible.