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title: Adding Pickups to Route Plans
description: How to add pickups to route plans. How to create your routing schedules.
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# Adding Pickups to Route Plans

### Table of Contents

1. [Edit Route Plan Page](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/adding-pickups-to-route-plans#edit)
2. [Assigning Unassigned Pickups](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/adding-pickups-to-route-plans#assigning)

 

Find your route or create one, and then click "Edit Route Plan" to get started.

![](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Aug-08-2025-09-18-22-0744-PM.png?width=670&height=331&name=image-png-Aug-08-2025-09-18-22-0744-PM.png)

 

### Edit Route Page

See below for detailed explanations of each numbered section. 

![](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-56-35-3420-PM.png?width=2736&height=1376&name=image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-56-35-3420-PM.png)

#### **Section 1**

 You will find your current schedule in the **Assigned Stops** section. Each row represents a pickup and contains all relevant information pertaining to that stop: 

1. **No**.: The stop's position in the schedule. 
2. **Freq**.: The pickup frequency. 
3. **Schedule**: When assigning pickups to a route plan, they are auto-assigned to schedules based on the service start date. 
   
   *Note: You can change the schedule by hovering over the schedule number. *  
     1. **Weekly** stops run every week and are on all four schedules
     2. **Biweekly** stops run every other week and will run on Schedules 1 and 3 or Schedules 2 and 4
     3. **Every 4 week** stops are only on one of the four schedules
     4. **Monthly** stops are on only one of the four schedules
4. **Next Run Date**: The next service date of the pickup. 
5. **Customer**
6. **Location**
7. **Product**
8. **Qty.**

 

#### **Section 2**

 Stops that have not yet been assigned to route plans are in the **Unassigned Pickups** section. 

1. **Service**: Commercial or Residential
2. **Order**: The [routing setup order](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/routing-setup-orders?hsLang=en) number
3. **Customer**
4. **Location**
5. **Freq.**: The pickup frequency. 
6. **Unassigned (#)**: The number of pickups that have yet to be assigned to a route plan.
7. **Preferred Days**: Customer's preferred pickup days. 
8. **Product**
9. **Qty.**
10. **Stream**
11. **Serviced on this Route**: Whether or not the pickup is already assigned to this route plan. 
12. **Service Start**: You can now edit the Service Start Date of an unassigned pickup **as long as** no pickups have been routed AND nothing has ever been dispatched for the service. 

 

#### **Section 3**

- The search bar can be used to find the unassigned pickup you are looking for. You can search by customer name, location name, location address, or order number.
- In addition, the column headers with ![](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-20-32-3218-PM.png?width=19&height=17&name=image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-20-32-3218-PM.png) means you can click and add a filter.

#### **Section 4**

- The pen tool ![](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-25-33-0509-PM.png?width=25&height=23&name=image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-25-33-0509-PM.png) allows you to circle pickups and add them to the schedule.
- The **Optimize** button helps you [optimize your route](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/route-plan-optimization?hsLang=en) based on distance. 
- Click the legend in the bottom right to see more information about the symbols you see on the map.
- Click the calendar icon![](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-51-03-2431-PM.png?width=21&height=19&name=image-png-Aug-11-2025-02-51-03-2431-PM.png) to reference the system schedules.
- Lastly, remember to click **Save **to save your route plan. 

 

### Assigning Unassigned Pickups

There are three different ways you can assign unassigned pickups:

1. Click to select a row, then drag and drop to rearrange the sequence.
   
   ![rearranging pickups1](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/rearranging%20pickups1.gif?width=670&height=301&name=rearranging%20pickups1.gif)
2. Use Shift or Ctrl / Cmd key to select multiple rows.
   
   ![rearranging pickups2](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/rearranging%20pickups2.gif?width=670&height=301&name=rearranging%20pickups2.gif)
3. Edit a stop directly by clicking the stop number and typing the desired number.
   
   ![rearranging pickups3](https://knowledgebase.curbwaste.com/hs-fs/hubfs/rearranging%20pickups3.gif?width=670&height=301&name=rearranging%20pickups3.gif)

 

 

 

*Updated: 8/11/25*

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