Plow and salt routes, ready before the first flake.
Build your storm routes in the fall, when there's time to think. When the snow starts, drivers open their route on their phones and go.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
The short answer
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Lite Route Planner plans snow removal routes: import your properties, split them into priority lots, driveways and salting runs, and optimize each route in one click. Drivers open their route on their phones with nothing to install and mark each property Visited, so every storm leaves a visit history with times. It's free for up to 50 addresses, and Business includes unlimited drivers with no per-truck fees.
A storm is three or four routes, not one
Priority commercial lots
Clinics, restaurants and stores that must be open by 6 a.m. They go first and get their own route.
Residential driveways
Dozens of short stops, usually after the commercial lots are clear. Order matters most here.
Salt and ice melt
A separate run with the spreader truck, often a second pass after plowing.
Sidewalk crews
Walks and entrances, on foot or in a pickup, following the plow route.
The property list behind a plow route
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
| 1 | Property | Address | City | Priority | Service | Trigger (in) | Contract | Truck | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Lakeside Family Clinic | 7600 France Ave S | Edina, MN | 1 | Plow and salt | 1 | Seasonal | Truck 1 | Open by 6 a.m. |
| 3 | Cedar Ridge Plaza | 9801 Normandale Blvd | Bloomington, MN | 1 | Plow, salt, walks | 2 | Per push | Truck 1 | Pile snow in NE corner |
| 4 | St. Paul's Lutheran | 6201 W 98th St | Bloomington, MN | 1 | Plow and salt | 1 | Seasonal | Truck 1 | Sundays by 7 a.m. |
| 5 | Jim and Karen Holt | 6912 Gleason Rd | Edina, MN | 2 | Driveway | 2 | Seasonal | Truck 2 | Stakes on curb side |
| 6 | Martha Ellison | 10220 Bush Lake Rd | Bloomington, MN | 2 | Driveway and walk | 2 | Per push | Truck 2 | Do the front walk too |
Priority and Trigger come in as numbers, Truck and Contract as text. Color the map by Priority before the season and check that each truck's properties sit together.
Build storm routes before the season
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Import every property
Once, in the fall. Properties, notes and history stay saved all winter.
- 2
Color by priority and truck
See which truck has which lots, and whether any Priority 1 lot sits far from the rest.
- 3
Lasso each truck's routes
Draw a loop around a truck's Priority 1 lots and save it as a route. Do the same for its driveways and the salt run. More on splitting stops into routes.
- 4
Optimize from the yard
Start each route at your yard or shop and press Optimize. Drag any lot that has to be first to the top.
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When it snows, assign and go
Assign each route to a driver. They open it on their phone and mark each property as they finish. Here's how drivers get their route.
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After the storm, complete the routes
The visits stay in each property's history. Before the next storm, filter by Truck and lasso again.
The driver app
Drivers open the route in the truck and go
No app to install and no password: drivers sign in with a code from their email. Each property opens in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze with one tap, and they mark it Visited, or Attempted with a note like "car in driveway." The office sees progress within seconds. Business includes unlimited drivers, so seasonal help costs nothing extra.
After the storm: who got plowed, and when
Every visit is saved with its time and the driver's note, and it stays in the property's history after the route is completed. When a customer calls to say nobody came, open their stop and see when it was marked. If a driver forgot to mark one, record the visit from the planner with the time it happened.
For per-push billing, export each completed route to Excel or CSV with the status of every stop, and color the map by times visited to see roughly how many pushes each property has had.
Know the limits before the first storm. Lite needs a data connection; there's no offline mode. The optimizer orders by distance, not priority, so priority lots get their own route or a drag to the top. There's no live GPS: you see progress as drivers mark stops. And it doesn't watch the weather or start routes at a trigger depth.