Move Truck Drop

Newspaper distribution patterns will change over time; for example, routes are often shifted to different trucks, and trucks themselves are split, combined or renamed. The Move Truck Drop utility can be useful when making distribution changes; the utility moves all of the drops of one truck to a different truck. For example, say two trucks, 22a and 22d, dropped the following routes:

Now let’s say the trucks need to be combined. All of truck 22a’s routes are moved to truck 22d using Move Truck Drop, which will result in one truck:

Use the following procedure to move all of the drops of one truck to another truck.

• Select Utilities | Tools | Move Truck Drop to display the Move Truck Drop screen.

  
• Select Add and complete the following fields.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  TRUCK SEQUENCE	setup	Enter the truck sequence within which you are moving drops.
  OLD TRUCK	setup	Enter the ID of the truck that you are moving drops from.
  NEW TRUCK	setup	Enter the ID of the truck that you are moving drops to.
  EFFECTIVE DATE	date	Enter the date on which the drops should effectively move from the old to the new truck. This will be the end date of the drops on the old truck and the start date of the drops on the new truck.

• Select Continue to move the drops. Note that all drops, including routes, relay trucks, and throwoffs will be moved. The drops will have the same drop order on the new truck as they did on the old truck. When complete, a processing report will appear, listing the number of drops that were moved.