One driver short at ten.
The trunk still has to roll.
The hours won't stretch.
A national distribution operation runs on night trunks that have to leave inside the permitted truck window, a fleet of drivers and a hard cap on the hours each one can work. One no-show at ten shouldn't force you to choose between a missed delivery slot and putting a driver over his legal hours.
Sound familiar?
21:50. The Abu Dhabi trunk leaves in ten minutes, and your only cover is out of hours.
The booked driver called in sick. The one standby in the yard has already worked an eight-hour shift, so the four-hour trunk pushes him past his overtime cap and into the night with no real rest, and the fleet telematics logs every minute. Hold the load and the delivery misses its slot, send him anyway and the fatigue and the liability are yours. Today that call is a controller scrolling a list of who is around, with no view of who is still legal to drive.
The run reflows to a driver who is actually legal to drive it.
- It knows every driver's hours leftThe platform reads each driver's worked hours and the fleet telematics, so the board shows who has daily, weekly and three-weekly hours and rest left before the run, not just who is on the rota.
- It only offers drivers who stay legalThe 8-hour day, the 48-hour week, the two-hour overtime cap and required rest sit on every profile, alongside a valid heavy licence, permit and medical. A driver who would go over, or whose permit has lapsed, cannot be assigned.
- It ranks the nearest legal coverWhen a trunk loses its driver, the platform surfaces the best drivers who still have hours and a current permit, ranked by remaining time, proximity and cost, so the load leaves inside its window and inside the rules.
What changes, in numbers.
Bring us your hardest week.
If one night no-show can force you to choose between a missed slot and putting a driver over his hours, your cover plan should not live on a spreadsheet. Show us your trunks, your fleet and your drivers, and we will run the live re-rostering and the hours, permit and medical checks on your own operation.
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