Hi, I'm Pete the Courier Driver, and this video is how to add multiple stops at Google Maps.
So it can be done. Normally, what you do is you would put your thing in the search bar at the top.
You click search from current location, and away it would go. So just to talk you through it. What
you've got to do, is go to the search bar at the top. Put in your first drop, your first location,
and then input that. And then press the directions button to get it up and running.
Then once you've got that up and going, on your first upload, normally what we do with Google
Maps. In the top right hand corner, there are three dots. If you tap on the three dots, you'll
get a drop down menu. And on the drop down menu it will say "Add a Stop". So obviously what you
do is you click on the "Add a Stop" bit. Then you can add up to ten stops and all in order, stop,
and where you go. It's an okay way of doing it. There are disadvantages with it.
First of all, you can only do ten stops. Now there is a way to do more than ten stops. You can go to
Google, and you can use My Maps. The thing about My Maps is it's painful, it's difficult to input,
you only get a print out, it could take like hours. If you've got say 100 stops,
it could take you 8 hours to put them in. And more than anything else, it won't optimize your stops.
And this is what we're all about. We're all about optimizing your stops.
So say, for example, you're doing it through Google and you want to optimize the stops.
There isn't actually a way of doing it, but what you can do,
put your ten stops in like I said before, put your first stop in as normal. Get the directions,
go to the three little dots, go to the drop down menu, go to "Add Stop",
add all your stops in. And then when you've added them, next to them, you'll see like a little equal
sign. And what you can do is then you can have a look on the map or have a look at the stops.
Try and use common sense or have a look at the post code, see which ones are near to each other,
and move the equal signs up and down into an order. So it might say from where you are to
where you're going and the places in between. And that's the best and only way to do it in Google.
It's not brilliant because even though it looks on a map, like two places are close together,
sometimes they're not. Because sometimes it would be much quicker to do the motorway
and go around the other way and then do that on the way back.
Sometimes two postcodes might be next to each other, but they could be opposite end to the
county and it doesn't work. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't work. This is why I don't use it.
This is why I use this thing that we go on on that we use Circuit.
Circuit is fantastic because it will integrate with Google Maps. It doesn't just do it right with
Google Maps. It integrates with Waze, it integrates with airport maps. It integrates
with here we go. It integrates with TomTom. It does the trucks out there, and all that kind of
stuff. And what that will do is it will make it much easier... For start it makes it much easier
to get stops in because you could talk to the phone rather than actually turning around and
actually manually put them in with the post code and stuff like that.
And then once you've got them all in and you get them in a lot quicker,
you can either put them in by hand or you can talk to the phone. Once you've got them all in, when
you're putting the stuff in as well, it will find a package for you.
So when you're putting it in, you can put a locator rod way in the back of the van or
the van of the truck, the actual packages. So when you get there,
not only are you saving time getting to the stop quicker, but when you actually get in
the back and you're actually around, moving around under 200 parses trying to work out where it is,
it will actually find it for you. And once you put all your stops in,
you click the "Optimize" button. This is something that Google and all the other mob don't do.
You click the "Optimize" button and what that will do is it will work out the best and quickest way
for you to go all the way around and do the stops, which is why I use it.
On top of which, bearing in mind the fact that Google Maps only that you do ten stops,
if you want Circuit, you could have up to ten stops on Circuit for free.
So it's not different. You just download the app, but don't take my word for it; try it.
Because you can download and you can use it for a trial period for free. And if you like it,
there is a subscription. What's the downside? Of course there's always a downside. There is
a subscription. You have to pay for it. But I think it's about $20 in the States.
I'm not sure but I think about 20 quid here. But when you actually break it down,
it's like the price of half a cup of coffee a day. So if you're going to use it all the time
and you bang on the monthly drop, I highly recommend you get it.
But like I say, don't take my word for it. Try it yourself. Let me know how it goes. Like I said,
my name Pete the Courier Driver. Hope this helps. There will be plenty more videos of
the similar [inaudible 00:05:14] and I've got my own channel over on YouTube as well,
which is Pete the Courier Driver. And as we say, take care, take money.