The Location Radius tool can help you with rate
determination and pre-operations planning. We’ll just take a quick
look at it.
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Highlight Manchester, IA on the stop list for
the route you just ran.
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Click on the Location Radius tab in the Route
1 entry window. You’ll see that Manchester has automatically
been entered as the city for this search. (You could have typed
a city, ZIP code, or any other type of PC*MILER place name in
the City field.)
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Enter “15” as the number of miles for a
radius around Manchester, then click Find. A list of all cities
within 15 miles of Manchester will pop up.
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Select the first six locations from the pick
list: click the first location (Manchester), hold the Shift key
down, then click the sixth location – the six closest places
should now be highlighted.
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Click the Plot Points button.
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Click on the minimized RouteMap window and
select Restore from the pop-up menu to open the map. You’ll see
the six locations you plotted represented on the map by small
red squares. (To see the city names for these locations, you
need to zoom in to Detail Level 11 – click and drag a box around
the locations north of Manchester several times and notice the
detail level change in the RouteMap window title bar.)
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Now instead of cities, let’s find all ZIP
codes within 15 miles of Manchester: click Close in the pick
list window, then Clear in the route entry window to clear the
map.
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Next, in the route entry window uncheck
Cities and check Postal Codes.
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Click Find to generate a list of ZIP codes in
a 15-mile radius:
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You could select and plot these points as we
did in Steps 4-5, or Save them in a text file. Or you could use
the Add Stop(s) button to add the selected places as stops in
the active route window. These stops would replace Manchester,
the highlighted stop. For this Tour, though, we’ll just click
Close to close the Location Radius pick list. The points you
plotted will remain on the map.
