Smart Refueling On Routes – Find & Add Fuel Stations To Routes

Route4Me’s last mile driver app automatically lets field employees know when they need to refuel on routes. The app tracks fuel levels against the remaining route distance and recommends refueling based on your company’s Fueling Strategy. It shows nearby gas stations on the map with fuel prices, detour distance, and time impact. Drivers pick a station, and the app inserts it as a Destination and recalculates directions to minimize added time and mileage. This means fewer delays, fuel purchases that follow your company’s Fueling Strategy instead of guesswork, and routes that stay optimized after refueling.

 

Based on your company’s Fueling Strategy, the app automatically notifies you when you need to refuel. Tap “Show Gas Stations” to see nearby fueling stations with their respective fuel prices and time impact.

You can tap a gas station on the map to see more details like its closing time, route detour distance, typical wait time, and more.

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Once you’ve picked the station that matches your needs, tap “Add to Route“. The app adds it as a new Destination and recalculates navigation directions to minimize the added time and distance.

Adding a fueling station increases the route’s total duration to account for both the detour and the time spent refueling. After refueling, you can continue to navigate and complete the route as usual.

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About author: Kristian Andreev

Kristian AndreevKristian is a Technical Writer at Route4Me. With over a decade of experience in writing and localization, he's an expert at communicating complex technical data in a clear, concise, and user-friendly way. Passionate about bridging the gap between engineers and users, he specializes in creating documentation to streamline onboarding, enhance product usability, and support global teams on the path to success.

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Route4Me has over 40,000 customers globally. Route4Me's Android and iPhone mobile apps have been downloaded over 2 million times since 2009. Extremely easy-to-use, Route4Me's apps create optimized routes, synchronize routes to mobile devices, enable communication with drivers and customers, offer turn-by-turn directions, delivery confirmation, and more. Behind the scenes, Route4Me's operational optimization platform combines high-performance algorithms with data science, machine learning, and big data to plan, optimize, and analyze routes of almost any size in real-time.