Tomorrow · Already planned
Same eight stops.
A shorter line home.
This is Stringline's finished work, drawn live from the sample morning below: the gray line drives the stops in the order the orders came in, the blue line is the same morning planned. You do not need to touch the demo to read the answer. The four stations above let you redo it yourself.
What the driver gets at 6:58 AM
Saved line · Bakery, 2 vans, Chicago41 miles a week back.
Same 30-odd drops. The second van now leaves at 8 instead of 6:30 twice a week, which is the part the drivers mention.
Saved line · Florist, 1 van, AustinZero missed windows in May.
Weddings at 11 stop being luck. The window jumped the line and the miles still came down.
Saved line · Pet food, 4 vans, ColumbusHome 52 minutes earlier.
Per van, per day, averaged over a spring. Nobody's kid got collected late in April. That is the review, really.
Step 1 of 4 · Stops
Every order is a station.
Put them on the line.
This is a sample morning in Chicago: eight drops that arrived in the order customers happened to call. Drop any that can wait until tomorrow, or tap the map to add the one that just came in. Nothing is planned yet. That is step 3.
With a name typed, the next map tap drops it. One box, no window. Real Stringline would read the address for you.
Step 2 of 4 · Driver and van
One driver, one van, one honest day.
A plan that needs a twelve-hour day is not a plan, it is a resignation letter. Set the limits first and the route respects them, or tells you plainly that it cannot.
Start of shift, from the depot
Longest day you will ask for
Van capacity: 30 boxes
Lunch
Step 3 of 4 · The plan
Same stops. A shorter line.
The gray line drives the stops in the order the orders came in, which is how most small fleets still run. The blue line is the same morning reordered. The difference is the product.
On, stops with a morning window jump the line even when the miles grow a little. Try it off and watch one turn red.
Step 4 of 4 · Send it
The plan leaves as texts.
The driver gets the line, in order, with the gate codes and the dog warnings attached. Every customer gets a window they can watch narrow, the way they already watch a pizza cross town. Sample texts, from your plan above:
Run your first real morning free
This demo form sends nothing. It shows what the first plan would say back to you.