OptiRoute
Status: Live System
Solving the multi-compartment fuel distribution puzzle directly in the browser.
What’s the background?
Independent fuel distributors deliver heating oil, diesel, and gas oil across regions every day. Most planners schedule this work using whiteboards, local memory, or massive enterprise software packages that cost a fortune and take months to learn.
Why is it just data, really?
Strip away the heavy tankers and the depots, and it’s a math puzzle. You have a list of postcodes with delivery windows, a fleet of trucks with fixed compartment capacities, and legal driver hours. Every part of the operation can be described as coordinates, litres, minutes, and rules.
What’s the actual problem?
Tankers aren't just big empty boxes; they’re split into separate physical compartments. You can’t mix kerosene with diesel, you can’t overload an axle, and you can’t afford empty miles on thin margins. Balancing that in your head across multiple trucks every morning is grueling, and one mistake contaminates a load or wastes hundreds of pounds in fuel.
What’s the approach?
Treat the physical rules as logic constraints in code. Turn delivery addresses into a live road-distance matrix, hardcode the compartment capacities and product rules, and run them through a routing algorithm. No guesswork, no gut feel.
What’s the solution?
OptiRoute. A clean, browser-based tool that calculates the run in seconds. Planners drop in their orders, the system works out the tightest multi-drop schedule across the fleet, and out comes an optimal route that respects driver shifts, keeps fuel types separated, and cuts out wasted mileage.