The main FleetPanda alternatives are Trimble Fuel Dispatch and PDI Logistics for large carriers, ADD Systems Raven and RR Fuel for propane, heating oil, and route delivery, and AIMS Fuel Dispatch, iRely, and FastDragon Hauling for jobbers who want the truck and the books in one system. FleetPanda is dispatch and driver software that hands the ticket to a separate back office, so the choice turns on where the delivery ticket becomes an invoice. FastDragon is ours, so hold our entry to the same standard as the rest.
How this comparison was put together
Every vendor fact comes from the vendor's own pages, read on October 15, 2026, or from dated trade press. Where a vendor's pages disagree with each other, we say so and quote both. Review counts come from the review sites themselves. The FastDragon entry describes what the Hauling module does in the software today.
What FleetPanda is
FleetPanda began as FuelPanda, which ran dispatch for its own fleet fueling business in California, and turned that dispatch tool into a product. Pavan Maheshwari is the founder and CEO. It sells to fuel marketers and distributors across four lines: on-site fueling (tank wagon and wet hosing, where the truck fills equipment directly), lubricants, bulk transport, and propane or heating oil.
The platform has nine named parts: a dispatch dashboard with compartment-level truck inventory, an iOS and Android driver app, reconciliation and invoicing, order management, routing, pricing and fee management, a customer portal, third-party logistics, and reporting. The driver app captures the bill of lading (BOL, the terminal's loading ticket) as a photo, takes a signature, prints a delivery ticket, and scans a QR code on each tank or piece of equipment before the gallons go in.
On integrations, its integrations page names the OPIS and DTN rack price feeds and the Liquid Controls LCR II, LCR 600, and LCR.iQ meter registers. Its fuel delivery software page says it connects to eight tank monitor vendors and creates an order on its own when a tank reading reaches the threshold you set. iRely and FleetPanda announced an integration in Bulk Transporter, and Mansfield Energy, whose network counts more than 1,500 delivery partners, receives delivered gallons from FleetPanda under a partnership announced in August 2024.
FleetPanda's named customers include Moffitt Services, 3L Energy Solutions, Pacific States Petroleum, McNeece Bros, and Coleman Oil. Its Moffitt case study reports more than 60 drivers, 18.7 million gallons, and 22,300 orders run through the system.
What FleetPanda publishes, and what it leaves for the sales call
- Price: none. The pricing page reads "Custom pricing, built for your unique needs."
- Go-live: "6-8 week implementation timeline" on the home page, and "Customers go live in just 5-6 weeks" on the fuel delivery software page.
- Support: the home page says both "less than 10 minutes, every time" and an average response of "less than 2 minutes."
- Security: the home page announces SOC 2 compliance. Ask which report, Type 1 or Type 2, and for a copy under NDA.
Those gaps are common for a younger vendor. The numbers that matter to you come from the demo and the reference calls, so plan to get them there.
Why haulers look past FleetPanda
The reasons we hear from operators come down to four, and each one points to a different alternative.
- They want one system. A dispatch tool that syncs to a back office means two vendors, two bills, and a sync to watch. A jobber with a bookkeeper and no IT staff often wants the ticket, the invoice, and the ledger in one place.
- They haul for others. A for-hire carrier bills freight by the load and pays drivers by the load or the hour. That calls for a carrier transportation management system (TMS) built around freight billing.
- They run heat and propane routes. Degree-day forecasting and keep-full customers are the core of a heating fuel business, and the route delivery systems grew up there.
- They are already on an enterprise suite. A marketer on PDI Enterprise or iRely can take dispatch from the same vendor and skip the integration.
The seven alternatives, side by side
| System | Ticket becomes an invoice in | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| FleetPanda | Your back office, through an integration | Fuel marketers moving off paper |
| PDI Logistics | PDI Enterprise or a connected ERP | Large retailers, wholesalers, carriers |
| ADD Raven | ADD Energy E3 or E360 | Propane, heating oil, fleet fueling |
| Trimble Fuel Dispatch | TMW.Suite billing | For-hire fuel carriers |
| AIMS Fuel Dispatch | COMPAS Commander | Jobbers who run AIMS books |
| RR Fuel | RR Fuel itself | Co-ops, propane, route delivery |
| iRely | iRely Petroleum ERP | Large multi-line distributors |
| FastDragon Hauling | FastDragon itself, at the drop | Jobbers with their own trucks |
Source: each vendor's own pages, read October 15, 2026. Links are under Sources below.
All eight quote to the operation, with no posted price. Ask each for a year-one total and a year-two total, the contract term, and what it costs to leave.
PDI Logistics
Built for: the large retailer, wholesaler, or carrier. PDI says its logistics software is "designed for retailers, wholesalers, and carriers across the globe."
What it does: scheduling and dispatch with driver and vehicle availability, an in-truck mobile app, automated order management that watches tank inventory in real time and builds orders from it, and load forecasting that aims to raise gallons per delivery. The back office behind it is PDI Enterprise.
What to check: the size of the implementation and the contract term, which are set for a large operator. If you came to PDI through FACTOR, DM2, or FireStream, ask which product the dispatch piece expects underneath. Our notes on that move are in alternatives to PDI.
ADD Systems Raven
Built for: propane, heating oil, and fleet fueling routes, and the marketer who runs several of them. ADD Systems has been family owned in New Jersey since 1973 and says more than 8,000 Raven units are deployed across North America.
What it does: Raven is the in-truck tablet. Raven Fleet Fueler handles wet hosing with QR-code equipment checks and gallons per piece of equipment. Raven Companion is a second Android device that checks equipment before the drop. Raven Wholesale covers transport loads with live truck visibility for dispatch. ADD says Raven "works with all major brands of registers." The back office is ADD Energy E3 or E360, with financials on Microsoft Dynamics.
What to check: the Dynamics licence that comes with the financials, and the E3 to E360 path. See where operators look when ADD stops fitting.
Trimble Fuel Dispatch
Built for: fuel haulers and petroleum carriers. Trimble describes it as "designed for the unique needs of fuel haulers and petroleum carriers" and names Marathon Petroleum as a reference.
What it does: a transportation management, dispatch, and order entry system built on Trimble's TMW.Suite and set up for fuel. Its pages list cross-dump detection, which flags a load headed into the wrong tank before it is dropped, inventory forecasting across many tanks, dispatch dashboards with arrival times and tank levels, trip planning, and billing.
What to check: this is the carrier's tool. A jobber who also sells the fuel still needs a wholesale back office for rack pricing, motor fuel tax, and dealer invoices.
AIMS Fuel Dispatch
Built for: the jobber whose books already run on COMPAS Commander from AIMS.
What it does: cloud dispatch with an optional driver app. AIMS says it builds orders from preset schedules and routes, optimizes routes, predicts fuel needs from each customer's history and current tank levels, and sends purchases and deliveries to Commander, which updates inventory and writes the customer invoice.
What to check: how transports and tank wagons are each handled, since the page does not say. If you run Petro-Data's Complete Jobber, AIMS bought Petro-Data on April 1, 2026; ask what the plan is for your system. Our notes are in Petro-Data was acquired by AIMS.
RR Fuel
Built for: co-ops, propane and heating fuel dealers, and wholesalers with retail. Red River Software of Post Falls, Idaho has more than 40 years behind it.
What it does: delivery dispatch, degree-day monitoring, prepaid contracts, drivers on Windows tablets wired to the meter head, a DTN rack import, and EDI tax reporting, in one system with its own books.
What to check: how the rack-to-dealer side handles commissioned agents and separate companies. See where wholesalers look when the co-op model stops fitting.
iRely Petroleum
Built for: the large distributor with several lines of business: fuel, lubricants, propane, stores, and agriculture.
What it does: one ERP across those lines, with transport loads priced from rack feeds, multi-state fuel tax filed electronically, and billing from the truck through a mobile app. iRely has also announced an integration with FleetPanda, so a distributor can run either driver tool against the same books.
What to check: implementation scope and staffing. See alternatives to iRely Petroleum.
FastDragon Hauling
Built for: the jobber or marketer who owns trucks and already runs the wholesale side, from one tank wagon to a fleet, at one site to dozens. Hauling is a module inside FastDragon and works on the same orders, customers, and invoices as the rest of the system. When the fuel on the truck is yours, Tank Wagon adds its stock and cost in every compartment, degree-day forecasting for heating oil, and a ticket line per unit for wet hose fueling.
What it does: the dispatch board shows each day with a lane per truck and an unassigned lane; picking a truck assigns the order. A run is one truck, one driver, one day, and can be repeated on another day for standing routes. Each truck carries its compartments and their capacities. The driver's phone app walks the day: start with the odometer and a pre-trip inspection, load at the rack with BOL, PO, gallons per compartment, and a BOL photo, then each stop with meter start and stop, gallons to three decimals, the tank level before the fill (the level after is worked out from the gallons), a drawn signature, and a photo. A "no" on safe-to-drive blocks the truck until the office clears it.
The phone keeps working without signal and sends each press once when the signal returns. When the run ends the driver records what is left on the truck, and the app shows loaded, delivered, left, and the gap, and names any stop that explains it, such as a drop that took less than its order. The customer gets the ticket by email with the signature and photo attached, and an "on the way" email with an expected arrival. During the run the driver's phone reports where the truck is, and the office sees each truck on the board map.
What stands out: the drop is the invoice. When the driver finishes, the order is marked delivered and invoiced from the truck's own supplier bills, oldest first. If the supplier bill has not arrived yet, FastDragon prices the gallons from the load, then the day's rack, and replaces that estimate in place when the real bill lands from DTN, email, or a keyed entry. Delivery charges per mile, per drop, after hours, and on weekends are added from each customer's terms. A site marked tax exempt is invoiced without the tax, and the basis for the exemption is kept on the site.
The dispatcher sees every site and truck on the map and sets the stop order in a few clicks, with each stop's expected arrival and a flag on any stop that will miss its window. FastDragon connects to QuickBooks Online and exports invoices, time, and driver hours in QuickBooks format.
Each load carries its lot or batch number, printed on every ticket and invoice, and a certificate of analysis attached to the load is there for the customer to download from their portal. DEF sold in jugs, cases, drums, or totes shows the count and size beside the gallons. Monthly tote rent and per-tote deposits are billed automatically, the deposit is returned when the empty comes back, and the office sees how many totes sit at each customer site. For fuel tax, FastDragon builds the quarterly IFTA report from the trucks' GPS, with miles per state, MPG, and taxable and net gallons, and flags any day with no GPS. A Form 720 worksheet lays out federal fuel excise by IRS number. Both come in Excel and PDF.
What to check: ask for the price band before the first call. The Hauling page shows the board, the ticket, and the invoice, and the Fuel Jobber page shows the wholesale screens Hauling sits beside.
FastDragon vs FleetPanda, point by point
| Question | FleetPanda | FastDragon Hauling |
|---|---|---|
| Where the ticket turns into an invoice | In your accounting system, after the sync | In FastDragon, the moment the driver finishes the drop |
| Supplier cost on the invoice | Comes from the back office you connect | Estimated from the load, replaced by the supplier bill when it lands |
| End of day on the truck | Compartment inventory on the dispatch dashboard | Loaded, delivered, left and gap, with any stop that explains the gap named |
| Tank monitors | Eight vendors named; orders created at a threshold | Readings through the readings connection, or entered by the driver or office; an alert at the threshold, and the dispatcher decides on the order |
| Meter registers | LCR II, LCR 600, LCR.iQ named | The driver enters meter start and stop on the phone |
| Route planning | Route optimization advertised | Every site and truck on the map; the dispatcher sets the stop order and sees each stop’s arrival time |
| Published price | None | None; the band comes before the first call |
FleetPanda's strengths are its named tank monitor vendors, its named meter list, and its customer portal. FastDragon's strength is that there is nothing to sync: the ticket, the invoice, the supplier cost, and the ledger are one record. Which matters more depends on whether your back office is a system you want to keep.
Five tests to run in every demo
- One ticket to cash. Have the driver finish a drop, then watch for the invoice, the cost behind it, and the journal entry. Count the screens and the systems.
- A short drop. Load 3,000 gallons, deliver 2,912, leave 80 on the truck. Ask where the 8-gallon gap shows up and who signs off on it.
- No signal. Turn on airplane mode at a stop, finish the ticket, turn it back off. Ask for proof the ticket landed once.
- A late supplier bill. Invoice the customer before the supplier bill arrives, then load the bill at a different price. See what changes and what stays.
- Your register. Bring the meter model on your trucks and see it read on the vendor's tablet or phone.
For the wider field, including the carrier systems and how to grade a whole shortlist, see the fuel delivery software buyer's guide. For how the dispatch desk works on its worst day, read what good dispatch looks like on a bad weather day. For DEF on the same truck, see what DEF delivery software has to track, and for the truck's own rules, hazmat placards for fuel trucks and the cargo tank test schedule.
Questions people ask
What is FleetPanda?
FleetPanda is dispatch and delivery software for fuel marketers and distributors. Its pages list a dispatch dashboard, an iOS and Android driver app, reconciliation and invoicing, order management, routing, pricing and fee management, a customer portal, and third-party logistics, across on-site fueling, lubricants, bulk transport, and propane or heating oil. The company started as FuelPanda, running dispatch for its own California fleet fueling business.
How much does FleetPanda cost?
FleetPanda publishes no price. Its pricing page says "Custom pricing, built for your unique needs" and sends you to a form. Any per-vehicle figure you see on a software directory is that directory’s estimate. Ask FleetPanda for a year-one total that includes setup, meter and tank monitor connections, and the back office integration.
What are the main alternatives to FleetPanda?
For a carrier that hauls for others: Trimble Fuel Dispatch or PDI Logistics. For propane, heating oil, and fleet fueling routes: ADD Systems Raven or RR Fuel. For a jobber who wants delivery and the books in one system: AIMS Fuel Dispatch with COMPAS Commander, iRely, or FastDragon Hauling, with FastDragon Tank Wagon for heating oil and wet hose routes.
Does FleetPanda include accounting?
FleetPanda handles reconciliation and invoicing and connects to the accounting system you already run. Its home page talks about integrating with an accounting system for billing and invoicing, and iRely announced a FleetPanda integration in trade press. Ask which back office it connects to for your setup, and see one ticket travel all the way into it during the demo.
How long does it take to go live on fuel delivery software?
FleetPanda’s own pages quote 6 to 8 weeks on the home page and 5 to 6 weeks on its fuel delivery software page. Plan on that range for any modern system, with the time going to customer sites, tanks, trucks and compartments, price setup, and driver training. Get the live date in writing.
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Sources
Read October 15, 2026: FleetPanda home, pricing, fuel delivery software, integrations, driver app, why FleetPanda, Moffitt case study, Mansfield partnership; CSP profile of Pavan Maheshwari; Bulk Transporter on FleetPanda and iRely; PDI Logistics; ADD Systems Raven; Trimble Fuel Dispatch; AIMS Fuel Dispatch; Red River RR Fuel; iRely Wholesale Transports. The Petro-Data purchase date is from the AIMS announcement of April 1, 2026.