Density is the whole game. The cluster map sheet: grow by streets, not scattered wins. When you cut one street well, you pick up its neighbors cheaply, and soon the whole street is a single stop that happens to have six driveways.
| Cluster | Streets in it | Service day | Lawns on it |
|---|---|---|---|
Drive-time reference, schematic from the course: a loose eight-stop day burns over an hour and a half driving; a tight loop burns about twenty minutes. Same lawns, same mowing, same you. Density pays twice: extra stops per day, and neighbors joining a route that visibly serves their street.
| Customer | Street | Cluster | Service day | Drive minutes from cluster core | Notes (gate code, dogs, access) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rule: every new lawn should sit inside or directly beside your existing cluster.
Prospect address: Quoted price: $
☐ It sits inside or directly beside the cluster. Accept at normal pricing.
☐ It does not. Drive minutes from the cluster core: Then either re-price with the drive included or decline. Declining is usually right: the lawn fifteen minutes away at $75 fails the test the adjacent lawn at $50 passes, because the far lawn quietly taxes every other stop on its day.
The sentence that protects the route:
"I'm not taking work outside my area this season."
| Service day | Same-day announcement sent (weather moves) | Completion text sent: "Done today, back ." | Look-back done at curb |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | |
| ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |