Built for the oilfield's spread-out map
Crude oil trucking and water hauling run across wide, rural maps: leases and pads spread over a basin, gathering points and disposal sites in between, and long empty legs if the day isn't chained well. A good oilfield plan keeps each truck working inside one part of the field instead of crossing it.
What makes oilfield dispatch hard
- Spread-out pickups. Lease tanks and pads are far apart, so the order of pickups decides the empty miles.
- Site requirements. H2S training, TWIC and customer-approved driver lists narrow who can take each load.
- Equipment. Vacuum trucks, crude tankers and frac water trucks aren't interchangeable.
- Disposal and delivery hours. Saltwater disposal sites and crude terminals have receiving windows and lines.
- Recurring hauls. Tanks that need pulling on a set frequency compete with one-off loads for the same drivers.
How Nivio plans crude and water loads
Nivio's Proprietary Algorithm matches qualification tags such as H2S and TWIC and truck requirements such as vacuum before it matches lanes, so no load goes to a driver or truck that can't take it. It chains pickups and drops across the basin to cut deadhead miles, schedules recurring hauls on their own frequency, keeps every driver inside their hours of service and every stop inside its window. The dispatcher reviews the plan on a map, locks what's promised, 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.
$599K annual impact on a 75-truck sand fleet — 47.84% loaded mile, up from 43.25%. $1.48M on a 120-truck fuel fleet — 52.79%, up from 46.92%.
A companion to your oilfield trucking software
Nivio Dispatch isn't oilfield dispatch software, water hauling software or a ticketing system, and it doesn't replace them. Those systems record runs, tickets and invoices. 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 deadhead side of the oilfield, see How to Reduce Deadhead Miles.
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 oilfield dispatch software?
No. Nivio Dispatch is dispatch planning software. It sits on top of the oilfield trucking software, water hauling software or TMS you already run, builds tomorrow's plan, and sends it back to your system for dispatch.
Can Nivio match H2S and TWIC requirements?
Yes. Requirements are tags on the load, and a load is only assigned to a driver who holds every required tag. Truck requirements, such as a vacuum truck, work the same way.
Does Nivio handle recurring tank pickups?
Yes. Auto hauls, loads a fleet picks up on a set frequency, are planned on their own schedule alongside one-off loads.