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Case Study - Mill Valley Refuse Service,
Inc.
Saved 14% in efficiency, reduced operating costs
by $375,000, and resulted in a reduction in the number
of vehicles from 22 to 19.
"MVRS had some
unique problems. In each instance, the FleetRoute
technology and its implementation assistance resolved
the issues in a timely manner. The results speak for
themselves."
Jim
Iavarone
Partner
Mill Valley Refuse Service, Inc.
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FleetRoute route optimization
software was used to reroute the 48,000 collection stops serviced
by Mill Valley Refuse Service, Inc. (MVRS) in Marin County,
California. MVRS is contracted to collect refuse, recyclable
materials and yard waste from eight municipalities on a weekly
basis. The area is challenging to collect because of the suburban
mountainous terrain with street size restrictions. This requires
small, medium and large trucks where the small trucks dump
into the large ones several times per day. The trucks have
both one- and two-person crews. The collection service levels
and set-outs vary and include residential and commercial,
curbside and backyard pickups. The routes contain many corner
lots and uphill/downhill stops. There were many customers
whose service addresses are not the same as their house addresses
due to the hilly terrain. This required the development of
easy data editing capabilities to override standard address
matching techniques.
This rerouting was done as
a service bureau project, managed by the lead developer of
FleetRoute, Dr. Paul Patterson. MVRS bought the FleetRoute
license and makes modifications to the original routes. The
resulting routes saved 14 percent in efficiency, reduced operating
costs by $375,000, and resulted in a reduction in the number
of vehicles from 22 to 19. This avoided a rate increase to
the municipalities.
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