How ValveRide Flow works

The fuel optimization platform that actually works.

The moment your dispatcher hits send, Flow calculates the route, scores the fuel stops, and applies your contract rates. The driver has a ready-to-use plan before the truck leaves the yard. Then Flow keeps optimizing every mile of the trip.

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Optimization Engine v3.7

Transparent by design. Explainable to your CFO.

No black boxes. No "trust the algorithm." Every recommendation Flow makes follows a fully auditable scoring formula, one you can walk through line by line with your finance team, your operations director, or your board. And every fuel plan ships with a plain-English explanation: why this stop, why this many gallons, what your savings are, and what drove the decision.

Real commercial truck routes, with actual road restrictions, not straight lines
Multi-stop optimization: plans with six or more stops when the haul needs them, all scored together
Out-of-Route Alerts: every active trip watched for drift off the planned route, with auto-replan on Enterprise
Your contract discount rates, applied per station automatically
IFTA tax-adjusted net price across all 48 contiguous states, surfaced as line-item savings
Hard restrict or soft preference: choose vendors per fleet, with auto-fallback
Interstate compliance mode keeps drivers at large truck stops
Vendor priority scoring favors the networks you prefer
Weight-sensitive fueling: conservative gallons for heavy loads
Live fuel levels from ELD when integrated
Plain-English explanation with every recommendation

OPTIMIZATION FLOW · ENGINE v3.701.  Load trip, truck profile, and live fuel level
02.  Geocode origin to destination
03.  Calculate real commercial truck route with road restrictions
04.  Sample route at 25-mile intervals from actual polyline
05.  Discover diesel stops per corridor segment
06.  Apply tenant contract discount rules per station
07.  Apply IFTA state tax rates
08.  Apply vendor priority score boosts
09.  Penalize off-route detours (interstate compliance)
10.  Score: net price minus detour cost plus vendor bonus minus parking penalty
11.  Rank candidates, select optimal stop
12.  Calculate gallons (weight-aware, 25 gal minimum)
13.  Estimate savings vs. rack rate
14.  Save fuel plan plus generate plain-English explanation

Adaptive Optimization

Optimization that doesn't stop at dispatch.

Most fuel tools optimize once, at dispatch, and lock the plan. Flow keeps working every mile, re-checking prices, discounts, position, and the HOS clock as the truck moves, and surfacing a better stop the moment one shows up.

Out-of-Route Monitoring

Every active trip is watched against its planned route. Sustained drift past the threshold (not a one-ping GPS blip) flags the trip for review. On Enterprise, it triggers an automatic replan from the truck's live position.

Missed Fuel Stop Alerts

When a truck rolls past an optimal stop without fueling, Flow surfaces the missed savings so dispatch can coach the driver and recover the difference on the next fill.

Real-Time Adaptive Recommendations

As the truck moves, Flow keeps re-checking prices, discounts, position, and hours of service, and surfaces a better fuel stop mid-route the moment one shows up.

Driver Compliance

Plans that get followed. Because they offer a choice.

Most fuel optimization tools send the driver one stop and call it a plan. Drivers who disagree just fuel somewhere else, and your contract rates never get applied. Compliance falls apart not because drivers are uncooperative, but because the plan left no room for the real world.

Flow sends every driver a mobile-friendly plan link at go.valverideflow.com with a best stop plus a ranked list of approved alternates, all scored by the same engine, all within your contract network. The fleet gets cost optimization. The driver gets flexibility. Drivers never see pricing. Compliance goes up because the plan works the way drivers actually work.

Best stop selected and clearly labeled, no guesswork for the driver
Approved alternates ranked and displayed, all within your discount network
Every option scored for price, detour distance, and parking capacity
Dispatcher sees the same plan: full visibility regardless of which stop is chosen
Compliance tracked against any approved stop, not just the top recommendation

Best Stop

Love's Travel Stop #765

Commerce, GA · Mile 68 · 0.8 mi off route

Contract rate applied · 131 gal recommended

Also Approved

Flying J #628

Carnesville, GA · Mile 81 · 0.4 mi off route

Petro Carnesville #377

Carnesville, GA · Mile 81 · 0.5 mi off route

Any approved stop counts toward compliance. The dispatcher sees the same options. Your contract rates apply at all three.

Flow Portal

A real command center. Not a dashboard afterthought.

Built for everyone in your organization who touches fuel, from the CFO reviewing monthly savings to the dispatcher checking that morning's plans.

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Dashboard

Savings totals, compliance scores, fleet activity, and recent fuel plans, all at a glance the moment you log in.

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Fuel Plans

Every generated plan with full stop detail, pricing breakdown, and the plain-English explanation behind each recommendation.

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Compliance

Transactions from WEX, Comdata, EFS, FleetOne, and Relay matched to recommendations. Compliance scored per driver, per trip, automatically once your transaction data is flowing.

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Fleet

Manage trucks, drivers, and fuel cards in one place. Bulk import hundreds of records via CSV in seconds.

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Fuel Discounts

Your negotiated rates and vendor priority rules, applied automatically to every recommendation, every time.

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Anomaly Watch

Eight detectors running on every transaction: overfills, impossible distances, double swipes, after-hours fueling, repeat-station habits, sudden discount shifts, off-trip and off-dispatch fueling.

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Analytics

Monthly savings trends, driver leaderboards, missed savings by route, engine prediction accuracy, and savings source attribution.

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Users & Roles

Role-based access for CFOs, operations teams, dispatchers, and read-only stakeholders.

Two Ways to Integrate

Self-serve on Growth. Automated on Enterprise.

Both tiers run the same engine and show the same analytics. The difference is how your data gets in. On Growth, your team uploads fuel card and dispatch data and the engine runs immediately. On Enterprise, we build the direct integrations and maintain them for you.

Growth: Manual uploadWEX, Comdata, EFS, FleetOne, Pilot, Love's, Relay. Drop the daily file in your dashboard.

Growth: Generic webhookAny TMS that can POST a normalized JSON dispatch. Samsara, Motive, and Omnitracs ELDs come in through the same webhook.

Enterprise: Direct feedsApproved-vendor integrations with Comdata, EFS, Relay, WEX, FleetOne, OTR, Pilot, and Love's, provisioned and maintained by us.

Enterprise: Custom adaptersMcLeod, in-house TMS, anything that doesn't fit the generic webhook spec.

Enterprise: In-cab pushIsaac, Samsara Messages, Motive Messages, Omnitracs Messages: fuel plans delivered to the in-cab device.

How it works

Dispatch fires

Your TMS posts a webhook, your dispatcher fills the manual form, or you forward the dispatch email. Flow accepts all three.

Plan generated

Flow calculates the route, scores every fuel stop, and applies your contract rates in under 2 seconds.

Plan delivered

Plan appears in your portal. Drivers receive a mobile-friendly link by email or SMS, or via in-cab push on Enterprise.

Flow keeps optimizing

As the truck moves, Flow re-checks live prices, route drift, and the HOS clock, and surfaces a better fuel stop mid-route the moment one shows up.

Compliance tracked

Fuel card transactions are matched against the recommendation. Per-driver compliance scoring, anomaly detection, and reconciliation surface every day.

First fuel plan on the first dispatch.

Most fleets are live within hours on Growth. Enterprise starts with a 30-minute call to scope the integrations you need and how we'll build them.

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