Every afternoon, from 3 to 7, your dispatcher hand-builds tomorrow's dispatch board — matching every available driver to every load, around hours of service, time windows, and customer rules. Nivio Dispatch does it in under 30 minutes. Same drivers, same loads, a better plan, built on top of the dispatch software or TMS you already run. The first optimization algorithm built for bulk trucking dispatch.
Simulated solve. Drivers, loads and lanes are representative bulk operations; the figures are modelled from the algorithm against real fleet data, not customer results.
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Your dispatcher knows the drivers and lanes better than any software will. What nobody can do in an afternoon is check every constraint, requirement and mileage pairing for 200 loads against 70 clocks on one dispatch board — which is why fleets planning by hand lose 60 to 70% of their miles to deadhead.
Here is one afternoon shrunk to five drivers and fifteen loads — — ways to run it — so build the board yourself, then hand the same fifteen to Nivio. Give each driver three loads, and keep every one of them inside their clock.
Run the same 5 drivers and 15 loads
939 hours per dispatcher · 2.7 full-time years
261 weekdays and 104 weekend days, with half the desk covering Saturdays and Sundays — 313 planning days a year each. A full-time year is 2,080 hours.
The afternoon load plan isn't one decision — it's hundreds of rules held in one person's head. Here's what the Proprietary Algorithm weighs on every load — hours of service, time windows, equipment, commodity and route — so the plan that comes back is one you can actually run.
Tell it what "best" means — most revenue, lowest cost, most paid miles, least deadhead — and every assignment is built to that target. It packs the most loads onto each driver, keeps trucks earning instead of idling, and spreads work evenly so no one runs ragged while another sits half-empty. Every plan is scored, so you can see why this match beat the alternative.
You set the objective; the algorithm solves to it.
Who's on today, who's already rolling, how many hours each one has left, who's due home, and who's been run hard three days running. The algorithm reads every driver's real clock and home-time before it assigns a single load — so the plan it hands back is one your drivers can actually run, not one you have to unwind by 4pm.
No driver gets a load they can't legally finish.
Hazmat, tanker, TWIC, the customer's approved-driver list, who's checked out on which product. A crude load doesn't go to a driver without the endorsement; a food-grade load doesn't go to a truck that just ran chemicals. The algorithm matches qualification to commodity before it ever matches truck to lane.
Every assignment clears the endorsement and the customer rule.
Origins, destinations, racks, terminals, and the empty miles between them. The algorithm chains loads so a driver finishes one near the pickup of the next, turning deadhead into paid freight. Fewer empty miles, more loads per shift, the same trucks earning more.
Empty miles become paid miles.
Appointment times, rack and terminal hours, detention, load and unload times — and the 14-hour, 30-minute, and 70-hour HOS limits sitting on top of all of it. The algorithm sequences the day so loads land inside their windows and no driver runs out of clock mid-route.
HOS-legal and on-window, enforced at plan time.
Urgent, priority, aged, pre-loaded, locked, self-managed. The exceptions your dispatcher keeps on a sticky note are inputs here: an aged load climbs the order before the customer calls, an auto haul recurs on its own frequency, and a load you've already committed to a driver stays there while everything else re-solves around it.
The exceptions are in the math, not on a sticky note.
Nivio Dispatch is a cloud application your dispatcher signs into — a dispatch planning board they build the shift on, a companion to the trucking dispatch software or TMS you already run, not a black box that mails them a file. Loads and drivers come in, the optimized plan comes back on a map, and every load on it can still be locked, moved or run a second way before a single driver is dispatched.
The algorithm does the arithmetic nobody can do by hand. The dispatcher keeps the judgement no algorithm has.
Illustrative — the planning screen, simplified.
Every one of these is a decision your dispatcher makes and the software respects. Nivio never sends a load anywhere your dispatcher didn’t approve.
Loads and drivers import from the Excel file you already keep, or come straight out of your TMS or dispatch software over the API. When the plan is set it leaves the same way — an export, or assignments pushed back to the TMS, so drivers are dispatched from the system they were always dispatched from.
Plan by operating area, by commodity — fuel, crude, water, frac sand, aggregate, chemicals, dry bulk — by day crew and night crew, however the business is actually split. You set the shape of the shift; the algorithm optimizes inside your structure rather than around it.
Every driver’s route drawn end to end, load to load. A dispatcher reads a shift the way they read a road, so a pairing that looks wrong can be checked on the screen instead of taken on faith.
Lock a load to the driver it has to go to. Swap another between drivers because you know something the data doesn’t — a customer, a truck, a driver who needs to be home tonight. Nivio re-solves around every call you make.
Solve for the fewest deadhead miles, then again for the most loads per driver, and set the two boards side by side. You are not guessing which objective was the right one — you are reading the difference.
Loaded-mile percentage, deadhead miles, fleet utilization and revenue per truck — for the shift you just built and every shift behind it. What used to be an argument at month end is a number on the screen.
You already pay for deadhead miles. It never shows up as its own line — it is spread across the fuel bill and the maintenance schedule, so it gets paid every month without anyone deciding to.
Nivio takes the empty miles out of the plan and the cost leaves with them — diesel that isn’t burned, tread and brakes that aren’t replaced.
Set your own fleet below. Every dollar here is cost you stop paying, not revenue we’re promising you’ll win.
The default sits at 6% on purpose — low enough that your own deadhead audit should beat it. Move it to whatever your numbers support.
What this deliberately leaves out: revenue from freed capacity, driver-hours recovered, reduced overtime, and anything to do with EBITDA. Those are real and they are usually larger than the number above — but they depend on whether you can sell the freed capacity, and that isn’t ours to promise. Everything here is cost you stop paying.
Nivio’s algorithm is available as a direct API call. Optimized boards are requested and returned inside the TMS or dispatch software your dispatchers already work in.
// a load, as the API actually takes it { "id": 151355, "commodity": "CHEMICALS", "revenue": 412.00, "revenueType": "FIXED", "urgencyLevel": "HIGH", // HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW "autoHaul": true, // → marked high-urgency "daysSinceCalledIn": 3, // older ⇒ earlier in the shift "pickup": { "name": "Northern Refinery", "availableFrom": "06:00", "availableTo": "18:00", "onSiteTime": "PT45M", "driverSkills": ["H2S"], "truckRequirements": ["VACUUM"], "dryHaul": true }, "stops": [{ "name": "WASH RACK", "onSiteTime": "PT30M" }] } // GET /solver/{jobId}/explain { "hardConstraints": [], "mediumConstraints": [{ "constraintName": "Minimize Unassigned Loads", "constraintWeight": -1, "violations": [{ "description": "Total of 2 Loads left unassigned.", "scoreImpact": -2 }] }], "softConstraints": [{ "constraintName": "Driver Shift Duration Balance", "constraintWeight": -1000 }] }
Send us one day of your actual dispatch — the loads and the drivers, on a template we give you. We solve the same day and hand back the comparison: total miles, deadhead, loaded percentage, and what the gap is worth over a year.
No integration to see it. Loads and drivers come in by spreadsheet or by hand. Connecting your TMS and ELD is there when you want it, never a condition of getting the numbers. Priced per driver, per day — $2.00 to $3.00 by fleet size and term, no overages — and you only pay for drivers Nivio actually plans.
Your first 14 days are free. Tell us what you want to see and we set the account up on your own loads and drivers. Nothing to cancel — billing starts only when you say so.