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Fix inefficient routes before they cost you
The optimizer is right below — drop your stops on the map and it builds a tighter route, so crews spend less time driving and more time cleaning. The guide behind it covers routing for density and profit, not just distance.
- routeMap stops, build a tighter route
- local_gas_stationCut windshield time & fuel
- more_timeFit more jobs in the same day
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🚐 Route Optimizer
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Windshield time is the cost nobody puts on the invoice
Every minute a crew spends driving between stops is a minute you pay for and can’t bill. Scattered accounts and routes planned by habit quietly bleed hours and fuel — and cap how many jobs a day a crew can actually do. It rarely shows up as a line item, which is exactly why it goes unfixed.
This page gives you both halves: a free route optimizer that maps your stops and builds a tighter sequence — less backtracking, less drive time — and a short guide to routing crews for density and profit, so more of the day is billable.
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The guide to routing crews for profit
Good routing isn’t just the shortest path between today’s stops — it’s building an account base and a daily order that keeps crews cleaning, not driving. Here’s how.
Route for density, not just distance
- Sequence to cut backtracking. The optimizer orders your stops so a crew isn’t crossing town twice — the single biggest daily time saver.
- Cluster your accounts. The real win is winning work near work you already have; a tight geographic cluster is far more profitable than the same revenue spread across the map.
- Respect the windows. A perfect distance route is useless if it hits an office before it’s empty — sequence around access times, then optimize.
Routing that sticks
- Plan the route, don’t wing it. "We know the way" is how crews drift into 30 wasted minutes a day.
- Count the time you save. Even 45 minutes a day per crew is a job you could add or an hour you stop paying for nothing.
- Feed it into pricing. When you know a new prospect sits inside an existing route, you can bid sharper and still make more.
- Re-optimize when the account base changes. A route that was tight a year ago isn’t after you’ve won and lost a few stops.
Do this, not that
check_circleDo
- checkSequence stops to cut backtracking
- checkCluster accounts by geography
- checkRoute around access windows
- checkCount and reclaim the time saved
- checkRe-optimize as accounts change
cancelDon't
- closePlan routes by habit
- closeChase accounts scattered across the region
- closeIgnore access windows
- closeTreat drive time as free
- closeRun last year’s route forever
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Habit routes vs. an optimized run
Same stops, same crew — one drives by memory, the other by a sequenced route. Here’s roughly what the reclaimed time is worth.
movingRoutes by habit
"We know the way."
- removeBacktracking across town
- removeWasted fuel and drive time
- removeFewer jobs fit in a day
- removeDrive time treated as free
routeAn optimized route
"Sequenced — 48 minutes back."
- checkStops ordered to cut backtracking
- checkLess fuel, less windshield time
- checkRoom to add a stop, not a shift
- checkDrive time counted and cut
Reclaimed drive time is billable time — on a crew cost this size, the windshield hours a tighter route gives back are worth roughly a year in added capacity and saved fuel.
Plan the route — then prove the crew ran it
A tighter route only pays if crews actually follow it. Swept’s location-verified clock-ins show where and when your teams really were, so the efficient route you planned is the route that got run — and the time you saved is time you actually reclaim.
What janitorial teams run in Swept
- check_circleTime tracking with location-verified clock-ins
- check_circleInspections with photo proof for clients
- check_circleScheduling and team messaging in one place
- check_circleJob costing that protects your margins
Frequently asked questions
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Related resources
Efficient routes are one lever on a profitable crew — these help you price, schedule, and grow it.
Prospecting Tool
Find new accounts near your existing routes so density works for you.
Open toolarrow_forward CalculatorJob Costing Calculator
Price drive time and labor into every bid so the route actually pays.
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Track prospects to signed so you can grow the book without losing the thread.
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