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Search a Location Radius
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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Now instead of cities, let’s find all ZIP codes within 15
miles of Manchester: click Close in the pick list window.
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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 Plot Points to plot these points
on the map, or Save to save them in a text file. Or you could select
Add Stop(s) 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.
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