Practical playbooks to optimize routes, dispatch operations, and last-mile delivery.
Eight delivery route planning tools compared for fleets of 5 to 25 vans in Spain: time windows, offline driver app, proof of delivery, API, Spanish-language support and published pricing, with sources.
Every "what time is my order arriving?" that lands on your sales rep's phone is a visit they don't make. In HORECA distribution, keeping customers informed about deliveries by phone costs hours, sales and customers. And almost all of it can be automated.
By Routal Team
Every November it's the same scene: Black Friday arrives, there aren't enough vans, and the ones left go at whatever price the owner names. You almost always need less extra capacity than you think, if you do the maths with stops per route, time windows and shifts. And if you start now, not in peak week.
By Routal Team
Since 5 October 2026 Spain's transport control document is only valid in electronic form, with no grace period. What inspectors ask for, what it costs not to carry it, who is exempt and what to do if you're not set up yet.
Google Maps, Shopify, WooCommerce and Business Central all have one, and a new version of the standard shipped in July 2026. What an MCP is, what you can ask it, what it doesn’t do, and how to connect one.
If your drivers bring the delivery notes back at the end of the day, every dispute takes days to settle. Here is how to roll out proof of delivery on the driver's phone, which evidence to ask each type of customer for, and how to see what was delivered without calling anyone.
Each vehicle's performance and route history now live in Fleet, you can top up your messaging balance from the module, and Connectors brings every integration together, Claude MCP included. It's already live in your project.
By Joao Lucio
Diesel is the number you check every week because it changes every week. Meanwhile, the cost of an hour of driver time and of putting a van on the road have been climbing for years. And in urban delivery you pay almost all of that whether you make 40 deliveries or 80. That's where the saving the pump receipt never shows you is hiding.
By Xavier Ruiz
On 5 October 2026 Spain's transport control document stops being valid on paper. It is called the DeCA, its technical rules are already published, and it affects every public road freight service you run in Spain. Here is what changes, who is responsible for what, and a checklist to get there without a scramble.
By Xavier Ruiz
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