Route efficiency simulator
How many more stops could the same trucks make?
Route order decides how much of a driver's day goes to servicing units and how much goes to driving between them. Set your fleet, choose how much improvement you want to assume, and see the weekly capacity that comes back. Nothing here is a promise. It is arithmetic on your own numbers.
Your fleet today
Start from a profile that looks like you, then adjust anything.
Service days per week
How much improvement to assume
Applied to each driver's daily stop count and rounded to whole stops.
What a service stop is worth to you after fuel, labor, and disposal. Use your own margin if you know it.
Added capacity
+50
more stops per week from the trucks you already run
20 stops per driver per day, up from 18.
Weekly stops today
5 drivers × 18 stops × 5 days
450
Weekly stops, optimized
5 drivers × 20 stops × 5 days
500
Revenue capacity per week
50 added stops × $15 each
$750
Per month
4.33 weeks
$3,248
Per year
52 weeks
$39,000
Assumes every recovered minute is refilled with a billable stop. Real capacity depends on demand in your service area and how tightly your routes already cluster.
How the estimate works
Three inputs and one assumption.
Your weekly capacity is drivers times stops per driver per day times service days. The simulator applies the improvement you chose to the daily stop count, rounds to a whole stop, and multiplies back out. Rounding is deliberate: a driver completes 18 stops or 19, never 18.4. It also means a small improvement on a short route can round to zero, which is the honest answer.
Revenue capacity is the added stops multiplied by the net value you entered. That value is yours to set. It is not a PortaPro figure, and the simulator does not try to guess your margin.
Conservative
8% more stops per driver
Routes are already grouped by area and drivers know their territories. The gain comes from sequencing within the day and fewer backtracks.
Standard
12% more stops per driver
Stops are assigned by hand from a list or a whiteboard, and the order is up to the driver. This is the most common starting point.
Dense routes
15% more stops per driver
Many stops per square mile, several trucks in overlapping areas, and mid-day dump runs. Assignment across trucks matters as much as sequence.
Where the minutes come from
The improvement has to come from somewhere real.
PortaPro plans the day with a Vehicle Routing Problem solver, not a list sort. It assigns stops to trucks and sequences them across tank capacity, disposal-site hours, service windows, and the equipment each truck can carry at the same time. The dispatcher publishes the plan and pushes it to drivers. That is the mechanism behind the percentage you picked above.
Read how the engine models a pump routeWhat the simulator leaves out
It only counts stops.
A shorter route also burns less fuel, ends the day earlier, and makes a service window easier to hit. None of that is in the number above. Neither is the time your office spends building routes by hand. The simulator answers one question, how many more stops the same trucks could make, and leaves the rest for a conversation with your own numbers in front of you.
If you want the full picture, the ROI calculator adds software consolidation, billing cycles, and payment fees on top, with every assumption sourced.
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