How Example Logistics cut fuel spend per pallet by 18% after rebuilding route planning
Example Logistics LtdVerified by Placeholder Analyst APublished September 10, 2026
Abstract
Example Logistics, a 140-vehicle distribution company based in Haifa, reduced fuel spend per delivered pallet by 18% in the eight months after replacing manual route planning with automated dispatch. The figure was reconciled against the company's fuel card statements and telematics exports for January to August 2026. Driver overtime fell 11% over the same period, though the company attributes part of that change to a separate shift-pattern revision introduced in March.
Key findings
- −18%Fuel spend per delivered pallet fell from ₪31.40 to ₪25.70 over eight months
- −27 kmAverage route length fell from 214 km to 187 km per vehicle per day
- 90 → 15 minPlanning time fell from roughly 90 minutes per depot per day to under 15
- −11%Driver overtime fell 11%, but a concurrent shift-pattern change makes the attribution partial
How this story was verified
Every Verified story states what we checked and what we did not. This block is part of the standard, not an appendix to it.
- Interviewed
- Placeholder Interviewee — Operations Director, Example Logistics Ltd (on August 12, 2026)
- Evidence reviewed
- Fuel card statements, January to August 2026
- Telematics route exports for all 140 vehicles, same period
- Dispatch system audit log showing cutover date
- Figures taken from client systems
- Fuel spend per delivered pallet (fuel card statements reconciled against pallet counts)
- Average route length per vehicle per day (telematics export)
- Planning time per depot (dispatch system timestamps)
- Figures self-reported by the client
- Driver overtime percentage, supplied from payroll summaries we did not see in full
- Not independently confirmed
- What share of the overtime reduction is attributable to routing rather than to the shift-pattern change introduced in March 2026.
- Whether the fuel saving persists beyond the eight-month window we examined.
- Analyst's note
- The company offered an annualised saving figure extrapolated from the eight-month period. We have not published it. The period covers an Israeli summer, when fuel consumption patterns differ from the rest of the year, and the extrapolation would present a seasonal figure as a yearly one.
Evidence tier
Tier 1 — Independently confirmed
The customer was interviewed on the record and the headline figures were reconciled against the client's own systems or documentation by an analyst.
What changed
Example Logistics ran route planning manually until February 2026. Each of its four depots produced next-day routes in a spreadsheet, typically in the last 90 minutes of the working day, using a dispatcher's knowledge of the region and of which drivers preferred which runs.
The company replaced that process with automated dispatch in a single cutover on February 17, 2026, confirmed in the dispatch system audit log we reviewed.
What the figures show
Fuel spend per delivered pallet fell from ₪31.40 in January 2026 to ₪25.70 in August 2026. We reconciled both figures against the company's fuel card statements and its pallet counts for the same months, which is why this story carries Tier 1.
Average route length fell from 214 km to 187 km per vehicle per day across the telematics export for all 140 vehicles. The reduction appears within three weeks of cutover and holds for the remainder of the period.
Planning time is the change the Operations Director raised first, unprompted: roughly 90 minutes per depot per day before, under 15 after.
Where the evidence stops
Driver overtime fell 11% over the same period. We have published that figure as self-reported because we saw payroll summaries rather than the underlying records, and because the company introduced a new shift pattern in March 2026. Two changes overlapping in one period cannot be separated from the outside, and the company did not claim otherwise when asked.
We were also offered an annualised saving. We declined to publish it: eight months spanning an Israeli summer do not extrapolate cleanly to a year, and presenting that number as annual would misstate what the evidence supports.
What this does and does not establish
This is one distribution company, in one region, over eight months. It establishes that this company recorded these results. It does not establish that the result is typical, repeatable, or available to any other buyer.