Cycles & Routes (4)

One change the new technology brought about was the reduction in the importance of the route sequence. This is the order in which the meters are read, and was optimised so as to reduce the time the meter reader spent crossing roads and so on. With drive-by reads, both sides of a street, together in some cases with side lanes, can all be read in one pass. Trash trucks also do not need sequences within routes, usually picking up from both sides of the street at a single pass.