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Which route planning software do you guys use?

I've been browsing some on the internet and from what I can tell, they're real complicated.

I just want something I can punch in the addresses and have the thing draw me a line to all the interconnecting stops on a map. From that point, I could print it out on a printer.
 
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Why you don't have any business!!!! Get accounts first so you at least have something to do instead of foruming
 
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hal said:
Why you don't have any business!!!! Get accounts first so you at least have something to do instead of foruming
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Thursday I went driving around all over town trying to find houses with weeds. When I do find a house, the people either don't answer the door, answer the door and say they're fine, or they say they already have a lawn service. So basically burning up gas driving around town for nothing.

Friday I spent the whole day trying various carburetors on my push mower trying to get it to run. After about the 4th carburetor, I gave up and went on eBay to order a new carb. I consider myself an expert mechanic, but can't for the life of me come up with a reason why the things aren't delivering fuel.

Today I decided to stay home and come up with a plan instead driving around burning up gasoline. The car only gets 20 miles to the gallon on average. I was thinking if I could locate all these houses with weeds on Google Maps Street View and then come up with a route interconnecting all the houses, maybe I'd gave some gasoline.
 
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Merkava_4 said:
was thinking if I could locate all these houses with weeds on Google Maps Street View and then come up with a route
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You originally said everything was dried up or dying weeds

One of your pictures has green grass

Is there more of those?

A neighborhood or area nearby you that people have green lawns and can afford to pay you to cut them?
 
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hort101 said:
You originally said everything was dried up or dying weeds

One of your pictures has green grass

Is there more of those?

A neighborhood or area nearby you that people have green lawns and can afford to pay you to cut them?
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I had no idea how well people take care of their yards before I started this venture. Most of the houses in the entire town have perfectly manicured yards no matter what the income level is for that neighborhood. I'm actually very perplexed by the whole situation. On YouTube, there's houses all over the place with weeds. I was really expecting to find more houses with weeds than I'm finding. Google Maps helps a little bit, but those pictures are two to three years old. All Google does is give me a basic idea of where there COULD be houses with weeds. What I need is a drone that can fly around giving me real time images back to my computer screen in real time. That would be sweet.
 
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Dude, you need to see a therapist, one that is either covered under Medicaid, or your insurance, and have them cut your CC up, and learn to control your spending.

Secondly, go to your local library, check out some books on weeds, weed ID, controlling etc.

Additionally, Purdue and MSU extensions both put out some quality turf management info sheets on their site, they post these FREE.

Finally, you should be able to plan your route with the amount of clients you have.

Final final, don’t try to keep up with the Jones’,
Debt is bad!
 
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Merkava_4 said:
I had no idea how well people take care of their yards before I started this venture. Most of the houses in the entire town have perfectly manicured yards no matter what the income level is for that neighborhood. I'm actually very perplexed by the whole situation. On YouTube, there's houses all over the place with weeds. I was really expecting to find more houses with weeds than I'm finding. Google Maps helps a little bit, but those pictures are two to three years old. All Google does is give me a basic idea of where there COULD be houses with weeds. What I need is a drone that can fly around giving me real time images back to my computer screen in real time. That would be sweet.
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Google maps, Google Earth and whatnot aren't updated on a daily basis.

If you looked at the earth view of my house you'd see my Camaro in the driveway and that hasn't been in that spot for at least 10 years.

The street view shows the Fiero my son sold 15 years ago.
 
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Well right there, no EXPERT would have been thought 4 cabs......just saying
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Well, it was more like four installations with two different carbs. I'm going to be studying the carb in depth. I found a real good video that
dieselss said:
Well right there, no EXPERT would have been thought 4 cabs......just saying
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Well, it was more like four installations with two different carbs.

I'm going to be studying the carb more in depth.

I found a real good video that explains the science behind the Briggs & Stratton Pulsa-Prime:

 
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Merkava_4 said:
Well, it was more like four installations with two different carbs. I'm going to be studying the carb in depth. I found a real good video that


Well, it was more like four installations with two different carbs.

I'm going to be studying the carb more in depth.

I found a real good video that explains the science behind the Briggs & Stratton Pulsa-Prime:

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FFS, a carburetor is about the most simple device out there...... it doesn't know or care how big the engine is, it merely meters fuel based on airflow demand.

My advice is to get your head out of your ass and get yourself a simple job with an hourly wage to get your head above water.
 
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Troll......
 
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