It’s time to stop using Google Maps and Waze for last mile route plans.
Sure, you can use Google Maps to route multiple stops—but their system notoriously lacks a dedicated truck route finder. You can jerry-rig a solution to last mile routing using their system, but what’s the point of doing that when there are so many purpose-built route planning and optimization options out there for last mile delivery management?
Fleet management is all about making sure you have the right assets—in the right condition—to ensure successful last mile deliveries. When it comes to food distribution, this can be particularly challenging. Maximizing delivery capacity and tracking deliveries that are underway have historically been pain points for businesses in this industry, and there’s been a dearth of effective solutions that can solve these challenges in a practical way.
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Looking for Roadnet training? We’re not surprised, Roadnet’s routing and other functionality is notoriously complicated—most users need binders full of information to do what they need to do. In spite of this fact, the actual training and support offered by Roadnet (aka Solera/Omnitracs) are fairly limited.
When it comes to food distribution, visibility has long been the holy grail—in the sense that it was incredibly elusive. With limited technological support, it’s difficult to see what capacity you have available, how planning updates will impact your routes, or how profitable your stops are—to say nothing of what the status of any given driver or delivery is.
Updated 2/23/2026.
Ensuring efficient, reliable delivery routes is a major pain point in last mile logistics, but dynamic route optimization can help alleviate it in a hurry. In this post, we’ll dig into how dynamic routing improves route performance, improves ETA accuracy, and ultimately saves money.
It’s a cliche at this point to say that the last mile of the supply chain is often the most expensive—but it’s true. Studies show that it can account for about 40-50% of total logistics costs, and anecdotally we’re pretty sure that it accounts for more than half the total frustration, lost sleep, and pulled out hair in the supply chain.
Over the past decade-plus, DispatchTrack has made its name across multiple industries by solving difficult problems in last mile logistics. We were pioneers in raising the global standard for delivery experience, and we’ve worked hard to offer best-in-class route optimization to ensure that businesses across the board can reduce miles driven, make life easier for your teams, and deliver on-time, every time.
A product’s journey from the warehouse to the customer’s door (i.e. the last mile) is one of the most challenging parts of the fulfillment process. And to make matters even worse, the ultimate arbiter of success isn’t your on-time performance or your cost-per-mile—it’s how happy the customer is at the end of the journey.
Routing isn’t the hardest part of being a successful food distributor—but it probably comes pretty close. Route engineers agonize over how best to make sure that each customer gets what they need, when they need it, week in and week out.