One Card, Every Pump: Why Darb Clients Stopped Routing Drivers Around Fuel Networks
46.7% of fuel transactions on Darb cards happen at stations outside the top named chains — because drivers fill up at the nearest pump. See how Darb gives fleets 100% station coverage across Saudi and the Gulf, plus workshops, tire shops, and car washes, on one card and one dashboard.
We pulled the numbers from our own cardholders. Across Darb fleet cards in Saudi Arabia from January through April 2026, 46.7% of fuel transactions happened at stations outside the major named chains. Aldrees was 11.1%. Petroly was 11%. Al Jeri 7.6%. Golden Drop, SASCO, Orange, and a long list of regional and independent forecourts made up the rest.
Where Darb Cardholders Actually Fill Up — Saudi Arabia
Source: Darb cardholder transactions, Jan–Apr 2026
There is no mystery in the data. Drivers fill up at the nearest pump. That is the whole behavior. The moment you tell a driver "only this brand," you are asking him to burn extra time and extra fuel just to detour to an approved station. Then he has to come back to his route. Multiply that by every shift, every vehicle, every day, and the "saved" fuel rate disappears under lost productivity.
Darb was built so that the network is never the constraint. <a href="https://darbpay.com/features/station-coverage">The card is built to be accepted everywhere a fleet card needs to work</a> — 100% of fuel stations in Saudi Arabia and across the GCC — top chains, regional operators, independent forecourts, and even remote sites like NEOM. The driver pulls into whichever pump is in front of him. The card works.
Fleets do not just buy fuel. They buy oil changes, tires, brake jobs, car washes, and small parts. A card that only works at fuel pumps pushes all of that spend back into petty cash, reimbursements, and untracked invoices. Darb cards work at workshops, tire shops, and car washes too — the entire vehicle-running cost lives on one card, with the same controls.
Control does not get diluted by coverage. Finance teams set <a href="https://darbpay.com/features/spend-controls">per-driver and per-vehicle limits, daily caps, merchant categories, and geofencing</a> from the dashboard. Every transaction lands in one place in real time, automatically categorized — fuel vs workshop vs car wash vs other. One report instead of three reconciliations.
The result for our clients is simple. Drivers stop being routed around the network. Finance stops chasing receipts. The fleet manager sees the full vehicle-running cost in one screen, by driver, by vehicle, by location. Productivity goes back into actual driving — which is the job the fleet exists to do.
If your fleet card only covers two or three brands, your drivers already know. They are quietly absorbing the gap with longer routes and cash-out workarounds. <a href="https://app.darbpay.com/client/signup?source=blog-fuel-coverage&lang=en">Move them to one card that works at every pump</a> — and one dashboard that finally tells you the truth about what your fleet is actually spending.