Your Trucks Drove 1,200 Empty Miles Last Month.
$18K in Diesel Gone.
Your trucks drove 1,200 empty miles last month. That is $18K in diesel burned hauling nothing but air. Your dispatcher is scheduling by memory and a whiteboard.
Where the Money Disappears
Every empty mile is money burned. Here is how it happens — silently, every single day.
Dispatcher scheduling by memory and a whiteboard
Your dispatcher juggles 30 trucks across 8 sites with a dry-erase board and phone calls. No visibility into which trucks are loaded, which are returning empty, or which trips could be combined.
No route optimization between jobsites
Truck A hauls material to Site 3 and drives back empty. Truck B leaves the yard 20 minutes later headed to Site 3. Two trips where one would do — but nobody can see the overlap in real time.
Duplicate trips nobody notices
The same gravel supplier gets three separate pickup orders from three different foremen on the same morning. Three round trips. Three fuel bills. One consolidated haul would have covered it.
Fuel waste is invisible until the credit card bill arrives
You find out about the $18K diesel burn when accounting reconciles at month-end. By then, the money is gone and the pattern repeats next month because nobody measured it in real time.
The POD Route to Zero Deadhead
Four steps from invisible waste to measurable savings — starting with a 5-minute voice report.
Capture every route from voice reports
Drivers report pickups, deliveries, and return legs in a 5-minute voice report. POD maps loaded vs. empty segments automatically — no GPS hardware required.
AI identifies deadhead patterns
POD analyzes route history across all vehicles and flags repeat empty-mile corridors. It spots the patterns your dispatcher cannot see on a whiteboard.
Real-time deadhead alerts to dispatch
When a truck finishes a delivery and has no backhaul, POD alerts dispatch with consolidation options — nearby pickups, material staging, or crew shuttle opportunities.
Fuel cost dashboard by route, driver, and site
See exactly which routes burn the most diesel per loaded mile. Compare drivers. Benchmark sites. Track month-over-month empty mile reduction with dollar savings.
Your Fleet Routes — Loaded vs. Deadhead
Green lines are loaded hauls earning money. Red dashed lines are empty return legs burning diesel. Watch the waste accumulate in real time.
Deadhead Intelligence — Every Empty Mile Measured
POD tracks empty vs. loaded miles and total fleet mileage across every vehicle — metrics that update automatically from daily voice reports.
Empty Miles
Mileage Tracker
Built for Fleet Route Optimization
Route Consolidation Engine
POD merges overlapping delivery requests across foremen and sites into consolidated hauls. Fewer trips, lower fuel cost, less wear on trucks.
Deadhead Cost Calculator
Real-time dollar-per-empty-mile tracking by vehicle, driver, route, and project. See the burn rate live, not 30 days later on a credit card statement.
Fleet Utilization Heatmap
Visualize which trucks earn their keep and which spend more time empty than loaded. Identify vehicles to redeploy, sell, or take off the road.
“We had no idea 28% of our truck miles were empty. POD showed us the deadhead patterns in the first week. We consolidated routes, matched backhauls, and cut empty miles by 41% in 60 days. That was $9,200 a month back in our pocket — from a 5-minute voice report.”
— Fleet Manager, Regional Earthwork Contractor (Midwest US)
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop Burning Diesel on Empty Miles
Your fleet burned $18K in deadhead miles last month. See exactly where the waste is and how POD eliminates it.