Grounds ToolkitRoutes and Capacity
How Much Work Can This Crew or Route Handle Each Week?
Enter workdays, hours per day, and average time per stop. Add current committed hours to see utilization and how much room is actually left.
Want to learn more?
- GuideThe Property Profitability GuideA price that clears your margin can still break your week. This guide walks through both halves of the take-on decision, cost and capacity, with a worked example of each outcome.
- GuideThe Drive-Time and Route Density GuideWindshield time is invisible on a schedule and expensive in practice. This guide measures exactly how much of a full week is drive time, and what a tighter route buys back.
How this is calculated
Available weekly hours is workdays times hours per day. Weekly stop capacity divides that by hours per stop (service plus drive time), rounded down. If current committed hours are entered, utilization is committed hours divided by available hours, and remaining capacity is what's left.
Worked example
5 workdays at 8 hours is 40 available hours. At 1.25 hours per stop, that's 32 properties of weekly capacity. If 30 hours are already committed, utilization is 75%, with 10 hours of remaining capacity.
Guide: The Property Profitability Guide, why a good price can still break a full week.
Guide: The Drive-Time and Route Density Guide, the drive-time half of every stop this capacity figure counts.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as committed hours?
Total service and drive time for all the properties already on the route or schedule for the week, in hours.
What happens if utilization is over 100%?
It means more work is committed than the crew has available hours for, based on the inputs entered. The calculator flags this directly rather than showing a number that implies everything fits.
How is this different from Properties per Day?
The Properties per Day calculator looks at one day in isolation. This multiplies that out across a full work week and, optionally, compares it against work already committed.