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Fix Your Waste Collection Routes with RouteSmart Solutions

RouteSmart brings decades of experience to optimizing waste collection routes for commercial, residential, and roll-off services. This is your guide to solving the most common routing challenges.

We tackle common challenges like safety, efficiency, and customer service. Explore answers to key routing questions below.

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01Efficiency

RouteSmart Online optimizes routes to ensure efficient planning, execution, and scalability.

“We have multiple trucks servicing the same streets.”

Balance your routes to keep trucks within their geographic territory. RouteSmart Online helps you minimize emissions, increase lifts per hour, and evenly distribute work across your fleet.

“Some of my drivers finish in a few hours, while others are always working overtime.”

RouteSmart Online factors in real-world operational complexities such as service-side restrictions, lift times, traffic flows, and stop weights to distribute workloads more evenly.

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02Drivers

Get drivers up and running on optimized routes through real-world modeling scenarios.

“I want to place anyone in a truck and have them drive efficiently from day one.”

RouteSmart Online stores routing scenarios for the life of your subscription. Route plans can be sent to your CRM system or SmartSuite Mobile for turn-by-turn instructions.

“We need to create a database of our operations instead of relying on driver memory.”

RouteSmart Online builds optimized, clear, and executable routes, incorporating your drivers’ expertise into a standardized routing system to improve efficiency and continuity.

03Growth

RouteSmart Online delivers clear, actionable insight to determine routes’ profitability.

“We need to merge new service areas with our current routes.”

RouteSmart Online seamlessly absorbs new service areas into existing routes through daily routing adjustments or large-scale optimization for major service changes.

“We can’t tell if adding a new route is financially viable.”

RouteSmart Online’s ‘What-If Scenarios’ model various operational changes—adding stops to existing routes, adjusting service days, or acquiring new vehicles—to evaluate profitability.

04Safety

Rely on proven, safety-first technology to keep business moving.

“Other routing solutions don’t handle right-side service effectively.”

RouteSmart has specialized in right-side service routing for over 40 years, adapting routes for all vehicle types and configurations.

“Our drivers face challenges with one-way streets, turn restrictions, and traffic congestion.”

RouteSmart Online integrates real-time street data from HERE Technologies to provide turn-by-turn guidance, optimize traffic patterns, and enforce safety restrictions.

05Modernization

Customize and optimize routes for unique, real-world conditions.

“How can we implement efficient, computer-generated route plans?”

RouteSmart Online customizes route plans, optimizing service days, fleet configurations, and budget considerations to kickstart your efficiency efforts.

“We need a routing solution designed specifically for waste collection.”

RouteSmart Online optimizes routing for garbage trucks, considering factors like U-turn avoidance, lift times, side-loader and rear/front-loader sequencing, and disposal site optimization.

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06Customer Service

Deliver personalized, time-sensitive customer experiences with RouteSmart Online.

“We need to optimize routes that serve customers on different days.”

RouteSmart Online optimizes multi-day service schedules, balancing workloads to maximize fleet efficiency.

“We need to meet specific customer service time windows while maintaining efficiency.”

RouteSmart Online factors in customer time windows while continuing to minimize miles and optimize driver productivity.

07Resources

Franklin Case Study

Franklin, Tennessee, adopted RouteSmart and RouteSmart Navigator, cutting annual operating costs by 37% through reduced mileage, truck use, and labor.

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Burnaby Case Study

The City worked with RouteSmart to implement major operational changes, shifting waste collection from weekly to biweekly and reducing crew workweeks from five to four days.

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Acadiana Case Study

Acadiana Waste Services improved efficiency and scaled with RouteSmart Online, replacing manual planning to integrate 63,000 new customers while reducing driver hours and enhancing safety and satisfaction.

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Recology Case Study

Recology used RouteSmart to optimize its San Francisco routes while transitioning to dual-use garbage/recycling trucks and a separate organics waste vehicle.

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It’s time to get started and fix the collection chaos.

Our industry pros have years of experience working with the most successful waste haulers in the U.S. and around the world. Let us help you fix the route collection chaos.

Jessica Cearfoss

Senior Business Development Manager

jcearfoss@routesmart.com

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Danielle Baci

Senior Client Success Manager

dbaci@routesmart.com

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