Route Smarter, Deliver Faster for Every Love's Stop With Locus
AI-driven routing, dispatch and control-tower visibility that fuel 650 + Love's Travel Stops, 325 new tankers and every stranded driver—right on time, every time.
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Locus Keeping Love's Logistics in Top Gear
Love's is more than fuel—it's a nationwide lifeline for truckers and travellers. With 655 travel centres across 42 states, a $24 billion business, Gemini Motor Transport's expanding 325-truck fleet, and 20 new sites slated for 2025, the network delivers millions of gallons of fuel, convenience goods and on-the-road repairs 24/7. Rapid growth, EV-charger roll-outs and inflationary fuel costs demand razor-sharp logistics: mileage-efficient tanker routes, instant roadside-tech dispatch, real-time parts replenishment and bullet-proof 3PL invoice control. Locus knits these moving parts into one smart engine, so Love’s stays the quickest pit stop on America's highways while protecting margin and sustainability goals.
Fleet Utilisation
325 new tankers must slot into milk runs that already leave empty miles on the table.
Last-Mile Efficiency
655 + sites in 42 states demand perfectly timed drops; late loads drain brand loyalty and revenue.
Rising Cost Base
Fuel, labour and insurance keep climbing while Love’s value promise leaves no room for price hikes.
Economic Shocks
Freight slowdowns and spot-rate swings can strand trucks and inflate the cost-per-gallon overnight.
Sustainability Targets
Carbon-footprint goals require shorter routes, fewer idles and data you can audit.
Market Saturation
Dense corridors mean ever-tighter delivery windows and finer inventory turns to avoid overstock.
Locus' End-to-End Solution Keeps Love's Rolling
AI builds multi-compartment tanker loops that respect volume forecasts, time-windows and DOT/HOS limits—cutting empty miles and preventing dry-stock emergencies.
Milk-run schedules from DCs to stores and service trucks sync with demand signals and vehicle capacity so high-value parts never go out of stock—or ride half-empty trailers.
Emergency fuel or parts orders leapfrog lower-priority stops automatically; the plan re-sequences in seconds, ensuring critical deliveries land on time without adding trucks.
Central ops gets a single map of fuel loads, parts drops and roadside jobs. Auto-alerts flag delays, temp breaches or HOS violations so issues are fixed before customers feel them.
Planned vs. actual mileage, compartment volumes and stop counts flow straight into finance. Variances surface instantly, wiping out audit headaches and over-billing.
Wrench-time, drive-time and safety metrics roll into live scorecards. Ops leaders spot under-utilisation, coach in real time and raise fleet productivity week over week.
Route Optimisation
AI builds multi-compartment tanker loops that respect volume forecasts, time-windows and DOT/HOS limits—cutting empty miles and preventing dry-stock emergencies.
Returns Planning
Milk-run schedules from DCs to stores and service trucks sync with demand signals and vehicle capacity so high-value parts never go out of stock—or ride half-empty trailers.
Dynamic Re-sequencing
Emergency fuel or parts orders leapfrog lower-priority stops automatically; the plan re-sequences in seconds, ensuring critical deliveries land on time without adding trucks.
Control Tower
Central ops gets a single map of fuel loads, parts drops and roadside jobs. Auto-alerts flag delays, temp breaches or HOS violations so issues are fixed before customers feel them.
Automated Carrier Invoice Reconciliation
Planned vs. actual mileage, compartment volumes and stop counts flow straight into finance. Variances surface instantly, wiping out audit headaches and over-billing.
Driver App POD
Wrench-time, drive-time and safety metrics roll into live scorecards. Ops leaders spot under-utilisation, coach in real time and raise fleet productivity week over week.
Success Stories
"With Locus' ShipFlex, we are looking to streamline third-party deliveries with rich carrier integrations, real-time tracking and more onto a single dashboard. This enables us to take full control of our third-party order-to-delivery process, operate more efficiently, and ensure timely deliveries, resulting in an enhanced customer experience."
Advanced Route Optimization
For Lulu International
Automated route planning and integrated driver scheduling boosted fleet utilization and delivery-window accuracy across Lulu International’s 239 GCC hypermarkets.
SLA Adherence
In fleet size
Plan run time 30-40 min/slot
to 5 min
In fuel savings
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