Benefits of Dedicated Beverage Trucks

Running dedicated beverage routes for your Antares vending business, is a concept that should be welcomed because of the numerous benefits that come with it.

If you could only run a route with beverages, your Antares business would be able to function more efficiently. Here are some of the benefits.

Less loading

A well designed beverage truck, with outside, roll up doors on the sides can be loaded by the pallet with a forklift truck. This would take less time than if you were loading the beverages into a cramped, mixed- product route vehicle. You can save a lot of time using this system.

Makes training easier

New beverage route people will only have to learn how to fill one type of Antares vending machine. The new mixed product route people will have one less type of machine to learn. This will reduce the amount of time it will take to train a new route person for your Antares vending business. Reducing the number of machines a new driver must learn will have a positive impact on trainee turnover.

Specialization builds efficiency

When an employee handles only one product, he will learn how to handle that product with very few wasted motions. He will be able to pick orders much faster as well as feel the Antares vending machines much faster.

Improved employee satisfaction

Whenever you improve the quality of the workplace and the work, you wind up with happier employees. A route person enters the cargo area at least 20 times per day. The cargo area of a mixed product route vehicle is not a comfortable place to enter. Providing beverage specific vehicles will improve the working conditions.

Consider impact on female applicants

Women are reticent about applying for vending route jobs because they feel it involves too much lifting. If beverage cases were removed from the equation and provided with their dedicated trucks, then women will be inclined to apply for the job in your Antares business.

While all the reasons to run dedicated beverage routes mentioned above are compelling, it seems that the most compelling reason is the fact that doing so will allow Antares operators to improve the productivity of their beverage routes and their mixed product routes.