What Paper Dockets Could Be Costing Your Tipper Office
The cost of a paper docket is not the price of the docket book. For a tipper business, the more useful question is how much office work happens after the driver has completed the load.
Do not start with a made-up euro figure
A saved administrative hour does not automatically become a cash saving, and replacing paper does not automatically create another truck load. Start by measuring the work that actually exists in your business.
Run a one-week paper-docket audit
For one normal working week, record:
- how many delivery dockets the office handles;
- minutes spent sorting or entering them;
- how often a missing or unclear record has to be investigated;
- time spent matching photographs, signatures or weighbridge information;
- time spent retrieving an older delivery for a customer or accounts query.
That gives you a baseline you can compare with a different process later.
Moyglare gives the workload some scale
Brendan Norris of Moyglare Sand & Gravel describes doing 7–10 loads on a typical day — around 50–60 dockets over a week under the paper process. In the office, Suzie Norris describes the business having worked manually for 24 years and previously entering delivery details including dates, docket numbers and sites.
The important point is not to assume another operator has the same workload. It is to see which of those handling steps exist in your own office and measure them.
See the Moyglare driver and office perspectives →
Then compare the digital process
With Tipper360, selected delivery information is recorded during the job and the completed record becomes available to the office after synchronisation. Supporting photographs, signatures and notes can stay with the relevant job where required.
Run the same measurement again. The defensible result is the difference in handling and retrieval time in your own operation — not a generic savings percentage.