Routing tactics can help any transportation office standardize the process of volume increases and how to manage them. This process will provide meaningful work to drivers and give your customers standardized delivery schedules that the warehouse can load to. Allow you to schedule effectively loads that drivers want to pull.
Routing Tactics
The layover-load split: This is a tactic where you have a load on a trailer that has a two-day delivery route. The load will not fit on the truck, so you break it at the layover. The primary driver can come back from his first day and then dispatch out on the second day after returning home for his break, or you can, if in a remote area, shuttle the layover to him or have a second driver just deliver the route on the next day. There are multiple things you can do in this scenario. If you shuttle the second day to the primary driver, the shuttle driver, after swapping trailers, can go and get a backhaul or inbound load before returning to the DC or facility.
The route-building split: For this tactic, you take an overly large route and break part of it off, leaving the primary driver or drivers a full trailer and creating a second load with a later dispatch time. You could then build a route with stops from other trucks that are over capacity, and this would minimize the impact on the warehouse.
The stop-moving dynamic: In this tactic, you would take an overly large truck and move selected stops off the truck to a truck that has the capacity and can deliver within the approximate pre-planned delivery time. If the delivery time varied, you would put together a call sheet on all the stops that had variations, call them one by one, and give them their new ETA.