Mapping work
Operations mapping study
This is the study we recommend when a company can no longer tell, from the wall map, why one yard starves while another overflows. We rebuild a chosen period from paper records and gate notes, then draw it.
The operations mapping study is our flagship because most arguments in a Georgian haulage office are arguments about a picture nobody has drawn. People remember the Tbilisi–Poti run as a straight westbound line. In the books it is a chain of waits: the bonded queue, the weighbridge, the hour when the pass is slow, the return with an empty that was supposed to pick wine in Kakheti and did not.
We take one company, one agreed period — often eight to twelve weeks, or a named harvest or peak — and reconstruct the movements. Origin–destination pairs come off the waybills. Dwell times come from yard books and from standing at the gate. The map is not a decoration. It is a claim: these were the corridors, these were the hours, this is where trailers slept.
The sitting at the end is part of the work. We hang the plates, walk the room through the bunches and the quiet yards, and leave the paper with you. If you later want a corridor study or a catchment drawing that zooms into one plate, that is a separate commission, priced on its own.
On the table
- A briefing at Level 12, 25 Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, Tbilisi 0186, or at your main yard
- Collection and reading of waybills, CMR copies, yard books, and a typical week's dispatch list
- Two or more gate visits during loading hours
- Draft sheets for your mark-up
- Final atlas plates (paper and a print-ready file)
- A sitting to read the sheets: pinch points, idle time, and catchments that do not match the advertised radius
Not in this study
- Live vehicle tracking hardware or licences
- Warehouse software, scanners, or radio installs
- Legal opinions on customs or cabotage
- Driver training or a rewritten tariff
- Ongoing weekly redraws (those are a separate retainer, if we agree one later)
How a study proceeds
- You write with the yards, the season, and what you already suspect. We reply within three working days with a yes, a no, or a narrower suggestion.
- We meet, agree the period to reconstruct, and list the records we need copied.
- Field days: gate counts, a walk of the yard, notes on where trailers actually wait.
- Draft plates go back to you. You correct place-names, ghost runs, and anything we misread.
- Final sheets and the reading. You keep the paper. We keep a file copy under the study name.
What we ask you to prepare
Set aside a contact who can release dispatch sheets without a week of internal letters. We need at least one intact week of movements, better a month, and permission to stand at the gate. If customs copies cannot leave the bonded store, we will work from what the store will show on site.
Limits we name in advance
We map what the records and the gate will support. A study cannot invent missing weeks, and we will not draw a 'desired' network that the trucks do not run. Winter closures, protest days, and port strikes belong on the sheet if they fell inside the period — we do not smooth them out.