Creating the Route Costing File

Route Costing Logs are created during the Route List generation. A log for each day, and route is created with the date specified on the Route List selection screen.

When running a Route List-

• Click on the box to the left of ‘Print route cover sheets’ to print a cover sheet for the driver to fill out.

• Click on the box to the Left of ‘Create route costing file’, this will put a Ö in the box so the file will be created.

• In the  ‘Create cost file for date’ box, enter the date for the Day & Route you are running.

For example: today is Friday September 10^th and I want to run my Route Lists for all my Commercial Monday Routes. I select the company 01, Route type = COMM, the frequency and action codes I want to include. I select Monday only by placing a Ö in the Monday box. I click on the Print Route Cover Sheets box and Create Route Cost file and I date it September 13. 2004 since that is Monday’s date.

• If running route lists for more than one day AND you want to have a Route Costing file for each, enter the date for the first day of the group of routes. The system will then create files with the appropriate date for that day of the week.

Route Cover Sheet

Once the Route Lists are generated, they will print by day then by route. Each route will have a Cover sheet that looks something like this (in 8 ½  x 11 form):

The Driver should fill out all information except for the “Sch Stops” and “Sch Lifts” (scheduled stops and scheduled lifts) since these will be automatically calculated by the route list. The cover sheets look exactly like the Route Costing Log entry screens for ease of data entry.