Route Planner — Find the Cheapest Fuel Stop Along Your Drive

Filling up on a long drive? The Route planner finds the best-value station along your way, not just the cheapest one nearby that sends you off-course.

Requires: A free account. (Signed out, you'll see a preview of how a trip looks with a prompt to create one.)

Planning a trip, step by step

Open the Route tab and a short guided wizard walks you through five steps.

Where are you starting? — Search a suburb or address, use your current location, or pick a saved place. Tick Save address for next time to keep it as a quick pick (e.g. Home or Work).
Where are you heading? — Your destination, the same way.
Trip details — Choose your trip type (Personal or Business — handy for separating work fuel) and how much fuel you need (a quarter, half, three-quarters, or full tank, worked out from your vehicle's tank size).
Pick your fuel stop — A map and a ranked list of recommended stations along your route. The best-value stop is marked Cheapest. Tap one, then Use this stop.
Review — Check the trip summary, then tap Start navigation to hand off to your maps app.

Adjusting how the route is built

On the Pick your fuel stop step, tap the settings (gear) icon to open Route Management settings (also at Profile → Route Management):

Setting	What it does
Max detour	How far off the direct route a station can be to still count
Number of stations	How many recommended stops to show
Roads to avoid	Exclude ferries, tolls, highways, gravel, or tunnels from the route

How the recommendation is worked out

Factor	What it means
Corridor stations	Stations within your max-detour distance of the direct route
Area median (corridor)	The typical price along your trip — the median of effective prices of the corridor stations
One-way detour cost	The extra fuel burned leaving the route to reach a station and rejoining
Fuel amount	How many litres you plan to add (from your ¼/½/¾/full tank choice)

The route uses effective prices (after your discounts) and the same gross-saving method as the rest of the app — see How we calculate savings. The detour here is one-way (you're continuing on to your destination), unlike Station Compare which uses a round trip.

Example. Median price along the corridor is 168.0c. A station 3 km off-route sits at 158.0c. Filling 50L is a 10.0c/L × 50 = $5.00 gross saving; the 6 km of extra driving costs about $0.70, so the net saving is ~$4.30 — worth the small detour.

What the Review screen shows

The final step summarises your chosen stop: the station and price, the distance to it, the estimated cost of your fill, the estimated saving versus the typical route price, the estimated CO₂ for the trip, and how far the stop is off your direct path. If a discount program applies at that station, you'll see a discount badge.

Hand off to your maps app

Tap Start navigation and the trip opens in your preferred maps app — start → fuel stop → destination — so you can drive it in one go.

Google Maps and Apple Maps open the full route with your fuel stop as a waypoint.
Waze doesn't support multi-stop routes, so if Waze is your preferred app the trip opens in your device's native maps instead — Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android — with the full trip intact.

Set your preferred maps app in Profile → System → Preferred map app.

"Did you fill up?"

When you come back to the app after navigating, it asks whether you filled up at your chosen stop:

Yes, I filled up — optionally adjust the price you paid and how many litres you added, and the trip is saved to your Trip history.
No, I didn't stop — the trip is cleared and you won't be asked about it again.

Best results: set your vehicle

Detour cost depends on your fuel economy and tank size. Set them in Set up your vehicle for accurate figures.