How do you figure out how long the deliveries are going to take.

There is a small formula to follow when figuring out how long a delivery will take and how to string together a run.

Run time = leave time + (travel time + drop time) + (travel time + drop time) + (travel time + drop time) + (return time + unload time)

Leave Time: is the time it takes you to get out of the building and on your way. It is roughly 15 minutes. This will include the added traffic that you will usually encounter in the morning.

Travel Time: is the amount of time it takes to get there. It takes a truck a little bit longer than a car. The best way to calculate how long it takes a truck is to determine how long it takes for a car to arrive then round up to the next 15 minutes. So if it takes a car 20 minutes to get there it will take a truck 30 minutes. If it normally takes a car 15 minutes or even 30 or 45 minutes just add 15 minutes for a truck.

When stringing a route together if the route takes the truck through an area of the city where there isn’t a drop add 15 minutes for travel. An example would be traveling from downtown to transcona. Since the route takes the truck through an area without a drop you would add travel time of 15 minutes. If the route is created to where the truck is flowing from one area of the city to the next, without having to “travel” through an area where there is no drop. Then there is no “travel time”.

Drop Time: is the average amount of time that it takes to dock and unload at the customer. This will be displayed at the top of the post on this site.

When designing a route you want to think in circles or semicircles. You want the route to flow from one area to another. There are obvious challenges to this, no drop from one area to the next, traffic flow and even specific times a delivery has to be at a drop. Your optimal delivery route would start you at the warehouse and end you inside the warehouses area. Good luck.

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