Propane Delivery Route Planning Software
Propane delivery runs cover vast territories with tight margins. Drivant optimizes your fill routes so drivers make more deliveries per load, burn less fuel getting there, and never leave a customer running on empty.
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Propane delivery routing is uniquely difficult
Long rural distances, seasonal demand swings, and hazmat constraints make manual route planning a losing game.
Sprawling Rural Territories
Customers are spread across counties. One poorly sequenced route can add 50 or more miles of unnecessary driving, burning through fuel and driver hours.
Seasonal Demand Surges
Winter heating season doubles or triples your delivery volume overnight. Manually planning routes for peak demand buries dispatchers in spreadsheets.
Hazmat Routing Restrictions
Propane trucks cannot take every road. Tunnels, certain bridges, and residential zones are off-limits for hazmat vehicles, but standard routing software ignores these constraints.
Driver & Truck Coordination
Matching available drivers to trucks, balancing load capacities, and getting manifests out before the first driver leaves the yard is a daily scramble.
Built for propane and fuel delivery operations
Import your delivery list, set priorities and territories, and let Drivant build the most efficient fill routes for every truck.
Import Delivery Lists
Drop in Excel or CSV files from your tank monitoring system, ERP, or dispatch software. Drivant auto-detects addresses, customer names, tank sizes, and delivery priorities. No reformatting needed.
Optimize Across Rural Territories
The optimizer finds the shortest path through all delivery points regardless of how spread out they are. Cluster nearby customers together and minimize empty miles between fills.
Truck-Aware Routing
HERE truck routing on Pro plans accounts for vehicle weight, height, and hazmat restrictions. Your propane trucks get routes that avoid prohibited roads, tunnels, and low-clearance bridges.
Export Driver Manifests
Generate print-ready manifests with stop sequence, addresses, delivery notes, tank details, and ETAs. Export to Excel, CSV, or GPX for GPS navigation devices.
A typical day with Drivant
It is 5:30 AM at your propane yard. The overnight tank monitoring report flagged 38 customers below 30 percent. Your dispatcher exports the list as a CSV, drops it into Drivant, and clicks "Build Routes." In under a minute, the optimizer clusters those 38 deliveries across your three bobtail trucks by geographic zone, accounts for each truck's maximum load, and sequences every stop to minimize backtracking on rural county roads.
By 6:15 AM each driver has a printed manifest with turn-by-turn stop order, customer names, tank sizes, estimated gallons, and projected arrival times. Driver one heads north through the hill country, driver two covers the eastern valley, and driver three runs the western corridor. No two trucks cross paths. No customer gets skipped.
At 10:00 AM a will-call request comes in for an emergency fill twenty miles outside your usual territory. Your dispatcher adds the address to driver two's route, re-optimizes, and texts the updated manifest. The new stop slots in between two existing deliveries without blowing the afternoon schedule. By 4:00 PM all three trucks are back at the yard, every flagged tank is filled, and tomorrow's monitoring report is already waiting in the export queue.
One platform, every fuel delivery type
Whether you deliver propane, heating oil, or bulk gas, Drivant handles the routing.
Residential Propane
Route drivers through residential customers for scheduled tank fills, will-call deliveries, and automatic delivery programs.
Commercial Accounts
Plan delivery routes to restaurants, construction sites, and commercial facilities with specific delivery windows and loading dock access.
Heating Oil Delivery
Optimize heating oil routes during peak winter demand, grouping customers by neighborhood to maximize deliveries per truck per day.
Bulk Gas Distribution
Route bulk delivery trucks to tank farms, commercial customers, and refill stations with weight-aware and hazmat-compliant routing.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Drivant for propane and fuel delivery routing.
Can Drivant handle hazmat vehicle routing for propane trucks?
Yes. Drivant supports HERE truck routing on Pro plans, which accounts for vehicle weight, height, and road restrictions including hazmat-restricted routes. Your propane delivery trucks get routes that avoid tunnels, low bridges, and roads where hazardous materials transport is prohibited.
How do I plan routes for seasonal demand surges?
Import your full customer list and sort by priority or delivery urgency. During peak heating season, add more routes and vehicles to handle the increased volume. The optimizer distributes stops efficiently across all available trucks.
Can I import my customer delivery list from my tank monitoring system?
Yes. Export your delivery list from your tank monitoring or ERP system as Excel or CSV, then import directly into Drivant. Addresses, customer names, tank sizes, and delivery priorities are auto-detected. No reformatting required.
Does Drivant work for rural delivery routes with long distances?
Yes. Drivant optimizes routes regardless of distance between stops. For rural propane delivery where customers are spread across large areas, the optimizer minimizes total drive time by finding the most efficient sequence through all delivery points.
Can I plan routes for multiple delivery trucks at once?
Yes. The Route Builder automatically assigns stops to vehicles based on geographic clusters, delivery urgency, and workload balance. You can also manually assign customers to specific trucks or let the optimizer distribute deliveries across your fleet.
What export formats does Drivant support for driver manifests?
Export routes as Excel spreadsheets with full stop details, CSV for integration with your billing or ERP system, GPX for GPS devices, or print-ready manifests with stop sequence, addresses, delivery notes, and ETAs.
How does Drivant handle will-call versus automatic delivery customers?
Tag each customer as will-call or automatic in your import data. Build separate routes by delivery type, or mix them on the same route and use priority sorting to ensure automatic delivery customers are reached before their tanks run low. Will-call requests can be added to an existing route and re-optimized without rebuilding from scratch.
Can Drivant account for truck load capacity when building propane routes?
Yes. Add estimated delivery gallons per stop and set a maximum load per route. The Route Builder distributes stops across vehicles to keep each truck within capacity. When a route exceeds the limit, excess stops are automatically assigned to the next available truck.
Is Drivant suitable for small propane companies with only two or three trucks?
Absolutely. Drivant scales from a single bobtail to a fleet of dozens. Small operations benefit the most from route optimization because every unnecessary mile hits your margin harder. The free plan supports basic routing, and the Pro trial gives you full access to truck routing and multi-vehicle optimization for 14 days.
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