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 – use the Zoom In
button on the tool 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.
