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Title: multi address route planner
Post by: richyp on September 27, 2017, 12:01:40 am
can anyone recommend a good route planner to do up to 40 addresses. thanks in advance.

richy
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Forum Admin on September 27, 2017, 09:41:09 am
Hi Richy,

We used "Speedy Route" recently and it was great taking into account the Travelling Salesman theory etc. We paid £12 for a week and cancelled after that as we had what we needed.

I'm sure there are others out there but from experience this worked well.
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Crystal-clear on September 27, 2017, 09:44:15 am
Hi Richy,

We used "Speedy Route" recently and it was great taking into account the Travelling Salesman theory etc. We paid £12 for a week and cancelled after that as we had what we needed.

I'm sure there are others out there but from experience this worked well.
Oh this is actually really good to know I always thought it would be good to find such an app where you place jobs in and do a search to find which are actually the nearest to each other
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: JandS on September 27, 2017, 10:17:35 am
I find Google maps with local knowledge thrown in works best.... ;D
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Lee Pryor on September 27, 2017, 03:08:54 pm
I route a thousand at a time in less than 5 minutes using Route4me
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: *Hector* on September 27, 2017, 04:18:35 pm
Optimap on line is what I used when I was a Yodel courier...

you put in all the postcodes or addresses or both, and then it sorts it into the shortest route... you can even upload it to Garmin or satnav...

http://www.gebweb.net/optimap/

best of all.... I t is FREE!!!!!
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: richyp on September 27, 2017, 08:08:43 pm
hi lee, how much is this software and is it easy to use?
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Lee Pryor on September 27, 2017, 10:57:10 pm
Its american so I pay about 40$ a month, but it gets a lot of use. I havnt found another that can cope with so many at a time.

Its pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: richyp on September 28, 2017, 08:55:17 pm
Hi lee can you drop addresses from cleaner planner into this software ?
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Plankton on September 28, 2017, 09:04:07 pm
Optimap on line is what I used when I was a Yodel courier...

you put in all the postcodes or addresses or both, and then it sorts it into the shortest route... you can even upload it to Garmin or satnav...

http://www.gebweb.net/optimap/

best of all.... I t is FREE!!!!!
That could be handy as if you have an idea of how long each job takes you can add that to your shown travel time to give you a view of the total  hours.
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Lee Pryor on September 28, 2017, 10:14:39 pm
Hi lee can you drop addresses from cleaner planner into this software ?

Thats what we do.

Tried that optimap. Gave it 250 jobs, folded half way through haha. Route4me does over 1000 for us in no time.
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: richyp on September 28, 2017, 10:43:42 pm
route4me 999 per month on website?
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Lee Pryor on September 28, 2017, 11:07:05 pm
route4me 999 per month on website?

I pay about 40$ a month
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Michael Peterson on September 29, 2017, 02:49:22 pm
Lee is right here route for me it the best by a million miles , trial it free for a week and organise your round , I've 700 customers and did it all in a morning for free easily, if I were the size of lee , (window cleaning round ,  not thingy size or I would be larger) I would defiantly be using it he way he does
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Shrek on October 01, 2017, 12:07:27 pm
Optimap on line is what I used when I was a Yodel courier...

you put in all the postcodes or addresses or both, and then it sorts it into the shortest route... you can even upload it to Garmin or satnav...

http://www.gebweb.net/optimap/

best of all.... I t is FREE!!!!!

Do you know how many addresses you can enter at a time?
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Shrek on October 01, 2017, 12:08:03 pm
route4me 999 per month on website?

I pay about 40$ a month

How do you get the 40$ option?
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: richyp on October 05, 2017, 07:39:22 pm
I can't find a 40 dollar option either and fiddledo around with trial and haven't a clue how to use it but it's something I need because I am peed off with doing the routes in my head.

R
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Delta on October 06, 2017, 07:19:45 pm
You just need to copy and paste the csv files. Call them for the low monthly offer.
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: Delta on October 08, 2017, 07:15:02 am
Update.
Straight from the horses mouth.....

"Thank you for contacting Route4Me Support. We're happy to help. Unfortunately, we no longer offer the Professional Plan at $49 a month, it has been retired and is no longer offered. The plan was retired in May of 2016. We do have our updated Professional Plan at $99 a month. If you are interested, we can get you set up. When would you like to start?"
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: *Hector* on October 08, 2017, 07:18:17 am
Optimap on line is what I used when I was a Yodel courier...

you put in all the postcodes or addresses or both, and then it sorts it into the shortest route... you can even upload it to Garmin or satnav...

http://www.gebweb.net/optimap/

best of all.... I t is FREE!!!!!

Do you know how many addresses you can enter at a time?

No idea, when I was a Yodel courier, I used to put up to 60 a day in. I don't expect that many on here have a window round of more than that, and as you do regular rounds, you can spend some time putting each day rounds in, and then save them, so that next time it takes just seconds to get each round up....
Title: Re: multi address route planner
Post by: TLC on October 11, 2017, 11:06:06 pm
Hi

If I sign up to rout4me can I use it on multiple devices simultaneously? Or would I need more accounts? Or is literally for sorting rounds and isn’t great for on the road with live changes?

Thanks in advance

Tim