Pest control companies continue to face pressure to maintain profitable margins. Though their digital-first focus is growing, too many companies still neglect solutions delivering greater operational efficiency and more happy customers.
FieldRoutes’ State of the Pest Industry Report, a survey of 1,025 companies, found that nearly half, 48 percent, don’t use software to route technicians.
Bob McElhannon, a FieldRoutes senior account executive, believes all companies, with perhaps the exception of one-person operators, should use routing software.
“Some companies think, ‘Now I’ve got to hire somebody to do that,'” he says. “Not if the software will do it for you.”
FieldRoutes software will do it for you. Among its vital features and capabilities:
- Handling thousands of stops in a single batch.
- Accounting for driving directions, conditions and road speeds.
- Maximizing time windows including preferred days, times and technicians.
- Viewing technician start locations, breaks and final destinations.
- Integrating existing appointments and due dates.
- Optimizing routes based on product volume and property size.
- Supporting commercial vehicle, hazmat and special vehicle routing.
- Adhering to same-side-of-street and bridge height restrictions.
And there’s not just one way to route. Try six: Intelligent Routing, Manual Route Assignment, Fill Routes, Optimize All Routes, Auto-Scheduled Routes and Recommended Routes.
“There are a lot of ways to get the route density and efficiency,” says Kirk Slack, owner of Dang Pest Control in Tyler, Texas.
“A game-changer for us,” adds Melanie Espinola, operations manager of General Environmental Services in Malden, Mass.
Need better routes? Tighter routes? Smarter routes?
For the best routes, choose FieldRoutes.
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