Find out how much of your day is drive time, how much it costs you, and how many more jobs you could fit with tighter routes. No email required.
Route density measures how tightly clustered your client stops are. High density means short drives between jobs — more time working, less time burning fuel. Low density means you're spending a big slice of your workday behind the wheel instead of swinging a trimmer. Most operators don't track this, so drive time silently eats 30–40% of their day. This calculator makes it visible.
Total stops per week / route
Rough radius from your farthest client
Door-to-door transit, not including parking
Time on-site per stop
Actual working hours, not commute
Used for extra revenue estimate
Route Density Score
Poor
You're losing significant time and money to drive time every day.
10
12 min drive + 35 min job = 47 min per stop
2.0 hrs
25% of your workday spent driving
$10.00
At $0.20/mile, 25 mph avg speed
11
If drive time reduced 35% via route optimization
+1
Jobs freed up with tighter routing
$275
1 extra jobs × $55 × 5 days
Estimates assume constant job duration and no idle time. Fuel estimate uses $0.20/mile at 25 mph average between stops. Revenue estimate assumes 5 workdays per week.
When you price a lawn job, you're pricing the mowing, the edging, the cleanup. You're probably not pricing the 10 minutes it takes to get there, or the 8 minutes to get to the next stop. But those minutes add up fast. A crew running 8 jobs with 12-minute drives burns through 96 minutes of drive time per day — that's nearly two full jobs worth of time, every single day.
The problem compounds with geography. If your clients are scattered across a wide area — maybe you added whoever called, regardless of location — you end up criss-crossing the same neighborhoods repeatedly. Every time you drive past an area you were just in, that's a gap that could have been a client.
The fix has two levers: sequencing (running stops in the most efficient order) and geography (replacing far-out clients with nearby ones). Most operators can fix sequencing with a routing tool. Fixing geography takes longer — it means either landing new clients in tight areas, or trading clients with other operators who have the inverse problem.
Route density is how tightly clustered your client stops are relative to your service area. A dense route has clients close together — short drive times between stops. A sparse route has clients spread out, meaning you burn more time (and fuel) driving than actually working. Most lawn care operators don't measure this, which is why drive time silently eats 30–40% of the workday.
For a solo operator running 8 jobs a day with 12-minute average drive times, cutting drive time by 35% (from AI optimization or swapping out-of-the-way clients) typically frees up 45–60 minutes per day. That's 1–2 extra jobs daily — or the same number of jobs finished faster. At $50 per job over 5 days, that's $250–$500 more revenue per week with no added costs.
Two ways. First, Mowzey's AI route optimizer sequences your existing clients in the most efficient order, reducing backtracking and overlap. Second, the client exchange lets you list geographically inconvenient clients for sale and buy clients near your existing stops from other operators. Swapping one far-out client for two nearby ones can tighten your route permanently — not just for a day.
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