Field notes from the rounds
Field notes
Short pieces from the kerb and the cabinet: how to read a kilometre log, why a hill round is not a coastal round, and what to photocopy before you visit the bureau.
These entries are written for dispatchers and owners who still keep paper on the dash. They are not lectures on “the future of logistics.” If a note helps you prepare a sample week for a route study, it has done its job.
What to photocopy before you climb to Level 6
A short packing list for a first visit to the Marjanishvili bureau: the week, the vans, the streets you already refuse, and the name of the person who can answer the same day.
A pile of waybills is not yet a route sheet
Waybills prove a crate moved. A route sheet tells a driver the order of doors. Mixing the two is how two vans climb the same stair.
A Batumi string is not a Tbilisi hill round with salt air
Coastal clocks, summer crowds, and a different kind of gate: why we refuse to copy a Saburtalo plate onto the Black Sea road.
How to read a kilometre log before anyone draws a map
A log is a stack of numbers. The useful questions are which gaps are waits, which are hills, and which are simply a missing street name.
Rustaveli is not Sololaki, and the clock proves it
A boulevard drop and a stair-street drop can share a postcode and still refuse the same van. Here is how we separate them on a plate.