Fuel·Hawk
Member feature · Smart Route

Cheapest fuel on your actual route.

Most fuel apps draw a circle around where you are and call it a search. Smart Route projects the roads you’re already going to drive, and finds the cheapest forecourt within a mile of that line. The station it recommends is one you’d pass anyway.

Route projection · Clapham → ShoreditchE10 · 07:10
Home · SW4Work · EC2AON ROUTE · 0.4MIEsso Kennington · 137.9pCostcutter · 135.9poff route · 2.8mi detourShell Streatham · 138.5poff route · 4.1mi detour
Saving on this fill: £3.40Annualised: £286
§ I

How it works.

  1. 01

    Set a route

    In your dashboard, add an origin postcode and a destination postcode — home to work, the school run, the regular weekend trip. Member gets two routes; Fleet gets ten.

  2. 02

    We project the line

    Every price tick, we compute the straight-line route between the two points. Not because your actual path is a straight line — your sat-nav can tell you that — but because a one-mile tolerance around the line captures every practical detour.

  3. 03

    We score every forecourt on it

    For each fuel type you use, we query every station within that one-mile buffer, attach the live pump price, and sort by cheapest. The result ignores stations that are near you but not on your route.

  4. 04

    The cheapest station is the one you pass

    A daily morning check, a commute alert before you leave, or a live lookup on the dashboard — the answer is always a forecourt on your actual path.

§ II · A worked example

Radius vs route, side by side.

Same driver, same commute, same three forecourts within five miles. The search method decides which station wins — and whether the saving is real after the detour.

Traditional radius search5 mi · E10
You135.9poff route138.5p
Picks Costcutter — cheapest in the circle but 2.8mi detour. After the extra petrol, saving is −£1.20.
Smart Route search1 mi of line · E10
HomeWork137.9pon routeoff-route · ignored
Picks Esso Kennington — slightly dearer but 0.4mi off route. Real saving: £5.50 on this fill.
§ III

What you get.

  • ◆Two routes on Member, ten on Fleet — more than enough for the daily commute, the school run, and weekend destinations.
  • ◆Route-aware price queries across every search, every dashboard view, and every commute alert email.
  • ◆One-mile detour tolerance — catches every forecourt a sane driver would consider.
  • ◆Works with all fuel types you track — E10, E5, diesel, super diesel, HVO, B10.
  • ◆Updates with the live price tick — the cheapest station on your route now is the one we show you now, not the one from yesterday.
Member · £1.99/month

Route-aware from £1.99.

Smart Route is part of Member, which also includes commute alerts, loyalty true-cost view, fuel budget tracking, and twelve months of price history. Cancel any time from your dashboard.

§ IV

Questions,
answered.

01How is Smart Route different from a normal radius search?
A radius search draws a circle around a point and returns every forecourt inside it. That's fine if you're not going anywhere, but useless for a commute: a station three miles off your route is a six-mile detour, and the cheap price rarely covers the extra fuel. Smart Route projects the actual straight-line route from your origin to your destination and returns only stations within one mile of that line, sorted by price. The forecourt it suggests is always one you'll drive past.
02Does it use live traffic or my actual driving path?
Straight-line projection, not live traffic. That's deliberate — it's much faster, works offline on the server, and one-mile tolerance covers the small deviations routing engines make. The result is functionally identical to 'near the roads you'd plausibly take'. We may add traffic-aware routing later for paid tiers if the community asks.
03What counts as a route? Do I have to set it up?
Yes — in the dashboard, add one or two routes (Member gets 2, Fleet gets 10). Each route is an origin postcode plus a destination postcode. From then on, every search and every price alert uses the route projection automatically.
04What savings does this actually produce?
It depends on your commute length and regional price variance, but the typical signal is 4-11p per litre versus picking the first forecourt on your side of town. On a daily 30-mile commute with a weekly fill, that's roughly £140-£400 a year saved. More than the cost of Member for two decades.