Cut Costs by Avoiding Toll Roads & Highways: Smarter Route Planning

Every dollar matters when running a business, even more when it’s a dedicated delivery business. Taking toll roads and long highways can seem small at first, but they pile up quickly and eat into the profits. The good news? You can cut these costs without slowing down deliveries. Smarter route planning can you in avoiding toll roads, reduce fuel use, and keep your business running efficiently.

Let’s break down how much toll roads cost you and how to plan better routes that save money while keeping deliveries on time.

The costs of toll roads & highways

When doing deliveries, there’s a very high chance drivers will need to take a toll road. Toll fees are an obvious expense. But the real cost goes beyond just the price at the toll booth.

Toll fees can add up quickly. If drivers pass through many toll roads on a daily basis, costs can skyrocket. The total can be shocking if you multiply these costs by weeks and months. On the other hand, highways aren’t always efficient. They might look faster, but they’re indirect routes, burning extra fuel and taking much more time. Not to mention the fuel costs rising, since stop-and-go traffic, toll roads, and long detours affect the bottom line. Budgeting gets harder, making it difficult to predict delivery costs.

Avoiding toll roads isn’t just about saving a couple of dollars here and there. It’s about keeping your entire business and delivery operation profitable.

Why avoiding toll roads is a smart move

Avoiding toll roads doesn’t mean compromising on efficiency. It’s often the opposite: it improves your operations.

Many non-toll routes are just as fast, if not faster when you plan properly. It lowers your expenses while maintaining the same delivery times. Saving on tolls and fuel gives you better profit margins, which can be reinvested in the business to be more efficient, and satisfy the customers at even higher standards – without increasing your prices. And since we’re talking about pricing, you become more competitive. With lower costs, even small businesses can keep pricing attractive without hurting the revenue. And lastly, you get more route flexibility. Skipping tolls allows you to adjust deliveries to match the drivers’ schedule and customers’ preferences.

The key is to avoid toll roads strategically, without wasting time on detours.

How route optimization helps you skip tolls

By choosing to use a route optimization tool, you don’t just find the shortest path, but you find the smartest one.

You can finally consider a wealth of parameters, such as customer delivery interval, traffic patterns, and driver’s safety, to go beyond the classic distance metric. You can prioritize cost-effective routes, to skip tolls without making trips longer. Planning routes that match time windows, and drivers’ schedules and avoiding unnecessary detours will not take a large portion of your time, but rather minutes. And a great software platform will help you adjust the route in real time.

Trying to avoid toll roads manually is super time-consuming and difficult. A good route planning tool does it automatically, saving you time, money, and headaches.

Using Logistia Route Planner for smarter routes

At Logistia Route Planner we make avoiding tolls simple.

By enabling the avoid tolls feature, you don’t need to check maps manually and the optimization find the best mix of speed and cost savings. You get real-time tracking to monitor the drivers and make any adjustments necessary and have the answer at a glance for your customers’ “Where is the driver?” question. With an easy-to-use interface, you can set up smart routes in minutes, without hassle.

Check your route settings and enable the avoid tolls feature. Plan your day effectively and adjust as needed. With Logistia Route Planner you can plan your day in minutes, or even plan your routes days in advance. If you’re looking to cut delivery costs without cutting on efficiency, Logistia Route Planner is the perfect choice.

Real-world savings: This business reduced important costs

One furniture shop in Denmark saved thousands by enabling avoid avoid-tolls feature while optimizing routes with Logistia Route Planner. Before using our smart route platform, they were not only spending hundreds per month on toll fees, but they also did the routes manually just to avoid them. Since switching to Logistia Route Planner, they cut toll costs (even ferry costs), reduced fuel expenses by 20%, and kept the delivery times the same or even faster, without sacrificing customer satisfaction.

The result? Higher profits without compromising service, and a more relaxed staff.

Conclusion

Avoiding toll roads isn’t about taking longer routes. You can spend less while keeping the deliveries equally efficient. By using smarter route planning, with Logistia Route Planner, you can reduce delivery costs without delays, improve profit margins without raising prices and stay competitive with efficient operations.

With Logistia Route Planner, skipping toll roads is easy. Start using smarter routes today and cut unnecessary costs for good.