ROUTE DENSITY
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Route density is how many paying stops a crew completes for each hour it spends on the road. A lawn care or snow company builds it by marketing street by street instead of town by town: asking the neighbours of existing customers first, limiting the service area on the website and the quote form, and turning down or pricing up jobs that sit far from current routes. Denser routes mean less unpaid drive time, so the same crew and truck finish more jobs in a day.
Route density measures how close together your stops are. Drive time between properties is paid in wages and fuel but billed to nobody, so two companies charging the same price per lawn can earn very different amounts per hour depending on how tightly their stops are grouped. Density matters even more in snow, where every site has to be cleared inside the same few hours.
Track two numbers per crew per day: stops completed and total hours from leaving the yard to returning. Stops per hour, or revenue per crew hour, shows density directly. Then mark your customers on a map: clusters show where to sell more, and lone pins show the stops that cost you the most to reach.
Sell to the neighbours first. They already see your truck every week and the result next door. Leave a door hanger or card at the nearest houses on each visit, put a yard sign up with the customer's permission, ask happy customers for a Google review and a referral, and name the neighbourhoods and towns you serve on your website and Google Business Profile.
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Yes, or price them to cover the drive. A job twenty minutes from your nearest stop adds a forty-minute round trip of crew time on every visit, every week of the season. Set a clear service area, publish it, and either decline requests outside it, put them on a waitlist until you have enough stops nearby, or quote a higher price that pays for the travel.
Your intake decides which jobs reach the calendar. Ask for the property address on the quote form so you can see route fit before quoting, list only the towns you route to, and give each of those towns its own page. With the Tlezz AI booking assistant you set the filters, minimum job value, service area and services you do not offer, and it declines or waitlists anything outside them.
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Sell winter service to your summer customers and summer service to your winter customers before selling either to strangers. The properties are already on your map, the customer already knows you and the work keeps a crew busy year-round. Start the snow conversation in August, before contracts are signed elsewhere.
There is no single benchmark, because lot sizes, services and travel distances differ by market. Track your own stops per crew hour and revenue per crew hour, and aim to improve them each season by adding stops inside existing clusters.
A modest neighbour offer can work because the stop adds almost no drive time. Work out what the saved travel is worth to you first and keep the offer below it.
Give notice before the season, explain that you are tightening your service area and, where you can, refer them to a company closer to them. Replace the stop with one inside a cluster before you let it go.
Yes. You set the filters, including minimum job value, service area and services you do not offer, and the AI booking assistant declines or waitlists anything outside them.
Full Route ($2,997 setup plus $597/month) and Market Dominator ($4,500 setup plus $997/month) include service-area pages for every town you cover.
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