Built for tankers that live at the rack
Fuel and propane are short-turn, high-frequency work. A refined fuel driver may run four or five loads a day between the same racks and a few dozen stations; a propane transport driver may run from a terminal to bulk plants across three counties. The money is in how tightly those turns chain together, and how little time is lost waiting at the rack.
What makes fuel and propane dispatch hard
- Rack congestion. The same rack takes ten minutes at 3am and fifty at 7am. A plan that uses an average loses the morning.
- Delivery windows. Retail stations, commercial accounts and bulk plants each have their own receiving hours.
- Runouts and urgency. A station about to run dry jumps the queue, and every other load moves around it.
- Hazmat and tanker endorsements. Every load needs a qualified driver; some customers name the drivers allowed on site.
- Seasonal peaks. Propane in a cold snap and fuel at harvest double the board overnight.
How Nivio plans fuel and propane loads
Nivio's Proprietary Algorithm plans the whole fleet at once. It reads every driver's hours of service, plans rack and terminal congestion as time of day rather than an average, holds every load inside its delivery window, and puts urgent and aged loads first. It chains each drop near the next pickup to cut deadhead miles, and matches hazmat, tanker and customer-approved drivers before it matches lanes. Your dispatcher reviews the plan on a map, locks or swaps what they know better, and releases it in under 30 minutes.
That is route optimization built for bulk work: single pickup to single drop, load to load, across the whole fleet at once. It is not multi-stop delivery routing, and it doesn't need to be.
$1.48M annual impact on a 120-truck fuel fleet in fuel and maintenance — 52.79% loaded mile, up from 46.92%.
A companion to your fuel delivery dispatch software
Nivio Dispatch isn't fuel delivery dispatch software or propane delivery software, and it doesn't replace either. Those systems take orders, send loads and record deliveries. Nivio is the dispatch planning layer on top: it decides the best plan for them to run.
Loads and drivers come in from the spreadsheet you already keep, by hand, or from your TMS over the API. Driver clocks and positions can come from Samsara, Geotab or Motive; McLeod and TMW connect on request. When the plan is approved it goes back out as an export or as assignments pushed to your TMS, so drivers are dispatched from the system they always were.
Start with one day
No integration is needed to see the number. Send one day of your loads and drivers on our template; we solve the same day and hand back the comparison: total miles, deadhead, loaded percentage and what the gap is worth over a year. After that, the first 14 days are free on your own loads and drivers. For the planning method behind it, see How to Dispatch Trucks.
See your fleet's plan in under 30 minutes
Send us one day of your loads and drivers. We solve the same day and show you the gap against the plan your team ran.
See how Nivio Dispatch works →Questions
Is Nivio fuel delivery dispatch software?
No. Nivio Dispatch is dispatch planning software. It works alongside the fuel delivery dispatch software, propane delivery software or TMS you already run: it builds tomorrow's plan, and the plan goes back to your system for dispatch.
Does Nivio plan around rack congestion?
Yes. Location congestion is planned by time of day, so a rack that backs up at 7am is treated as a slower stop at 7am, not as an average stop.
Can Nivio handle runouts and urgent loads?
Yes. Loads can be marked urgent, priority or aged, and they are placed first; anything you have already promised can be locked while the rest of the plan re-solves around it.