How to read a day’s delay minutes without drowning in the sheet
Planners already know the round ran late. The useful question is which hour ate the minutes, and whether those minutes sat at the gate or at the fifth drop.
Glenmore · United Kingdom
Charts for the rounds you already run.
We walk an ordinary yard day, then draw delay minutes, missed windows, and mileage so a planner can change a gate time or split a round without guessing.
Request a route review
How a review proceeds
Two weeks of finished sheets, two days on the yard, then a briefing the depot manager can keep.
Content Routehub is asked in when a retailer is already quoting late windows and the sheet still looks tidy. We do not replace the planner. We draw the day so the argument moves from weather stories to named hours and named roads.
The flagship piece of work is a route performance review for one UK depot. Supporting notes exist for fortnights, for a cluster of awkward drops, and for winter sheets that still carry July minutes.
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Intake
You name the depot, the contract, and a fortnight you can share. We say whether a review will hold.
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Yard days
We stand at the bay, ride two ordinary rounds, and write actual times beside the planned ones.
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Charts and a note
Delay minutes by hour, missed windows, mileage against the sheet. A briefing on site, a printed pack left behind.
Related work
Other notes we prepare for the same yards
Fortnightly round notes
Every two weeks we redraw delay minutes and missed windows for the same depot, so a planner can see whether a changed start time actually moved the afternoon bunching.
Multi-depot comparison
Side-by-side charts for two or three yards serving the same retailer, so a regional manager can see whether late windows sit in the town, the loading bay, or the sheet itself.
Missed-window inquiry
A focused look at one cluster of late deliveries — a retail park, a pedestrianised high street, or a hospital site — rather than a whole-depot review.
Winter timetable check
A pre-November pass over planned minutes for rounds that lose light, gain school traffic, or pick up parcel volume before Christmas.
From a Lincolnshire grocery yard
They sat in bay three at 05:40 and wrote down the actual time the first grocery van moved, which was eleven minutes after the sheet. That single line ended a month of arguing with the retailer about ‘traffic on the A-road’.
Field notes
Reading sheets, market towns, and hidden miles
Why the last mile bunches after four in a market town
School traffic, a closing high street, and a retailer who will not take a delivery after 16:30 land on the same hour. The sheet usually pretends they do not.
What to leave on the desk before a yard day
A useful visit is an ordinary Tuesday. Polished rounds and extra loaders make a pretty morning and a useless chart.
Write from the depot
Send the town, the vehicle count, and a fortnight you can share.
We reply within two working days with whether a review, an inquiry, or a winter check is the right piece of work — or with a clear no if the sheets will not support a chart.
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