Pest Route Planner Calculator

This calculator treats a technician's day as a fixed budget of minutes and works out how many service stops fit inside it. Time Per Stop is simply average service time plus average drive time to the next stop, and Maximum Stops divides the full work day (in minutes) by that combined figure, rounding down since a technician can't start a stop they won't finish. That gives you a capacity ceiling independent of how many stops you actually plan to run. Separately, the calculator takes your Planned Stops count and multiplies it out to get Total Service Time and Total Drive Time in hours, then compares that combined total against the full work day to produce a Utilization percentage — essentially, what share of the technician's paid day is actually billable service-and-travel time versus slack.

A utilization figure well under 100% suggests room to add more stops before hitting the day's real capacity; one pushing close to or over 100% signals an overbooked route where something (traffic, service overruns) will likely bump a stop to the next day. The model is intentionally simple: it assumes uniform service and drive times across all stops, which real routes rarely have — a first-time inspection takes longer than a routine monthly recheck, and drive time between suburban stops differs wildly from dense urban routes. Use this as a quick capacity check when building a route template, not as a stop-by-stop dispatch tool; real routing software that accounts for actual addresses, traffic patterns, and per-stop service variability will give a tighter answer for day-to-day scheduling.