Resources
Insights for waste operators.
Field-tested guidance on the metrics, data, and AI that move the numbers — written by the people who built it inside the industry, not theorized from the outside.
The library
Guides, organized by what you’re solving
We publish in clusters — a comprehensive guide to each core topic, surrounded by focused articles that answer one operator question well. New pieces are added regularly; filter by category to find what fits.
Flagship guide
Route Profitability in Waste Operations: How to Measure It (and Why Your ERP Doesn’t)
The anchor guide to the flagship KPI: what route profitability really is, how to calculate it, why TRUX, Navusoft, and Routeware don’t show it natively, and how operators act on it once they can see it.
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How to Calculate Route Profitability
The formula, what counts as a route’s true cost, and a worked example on labeled sample data.
Read →Lifts Per Hour, Explained
What route density really tells you, a healthy benchmark, and why density isn’t the same as profit.
Read →Why Your ERP Doesn’t Show Route Profitability
What TRUX, Navusoft, and Routeware are built for, where the inputs actually live, and what it takes to bridge them.
Read →The Hidden Costs That Make a Route Unprofitable
Labor, fuel, disposal, and asset costs — and how they disappear inside blended averages.
Read →Route Profitability vs. Route Efficiency
Why an efficient route can still lose money — and which one to optimize, when.
Read →5 Signs Your Most ‘Efficient’ Route Is Losing Money
The five tells, each paired with the single data point that reveals it.
Read →Why Fixing Waste ERP Reporting Starts With a Roadmap, Not a Tool
Most operators ask which tool to buy. The better first move is a roadmap — the target-state architecture and the order to build it.
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