See what a route really makes per month, per pool and per tech-hour, after chemicals, labor, driving and overhead.
Density. Every minute a tech spends driving is a minute nobody pays for. Cutting the average drive between stops from 15 to 8 minutes on a 60-pool weekly route gives back roughly 30 tech-hours a month.
Price versus cost per pool. A route average can look healthy while a handful of pools lose money every visit. Try lowering the average price or raising the chemical cost above and watch how fast the margin goes.
Chemicals. Chemicals are often the second-largest cost after labor, and the one most likely to leak: doses not logged, chemicals left at a customer's pool, product that never makes it back on the truck. Our guide on cutting chemical costs covers how to find it.
It depends almost entirely on route density and pricing. The same 60 pools can be very profitable when they are close together and priced from cost, and barely break even when they are spread out with long drives between stops.
Compare it with what that hour costs you. If a route makes less per tech-hour than you would pay to replace the tech, the route is carrying the business instead of feeding it.
Work out the cost of each pool, not just the route average. Pools with long drives, heavy chemical use or slow service hide inside a healthy-looking route total. RouteSplash ranks every pool by profit each month using real visit, drive and chemical data.
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