See the whole week, and every clash in it
Assign vehicles and drivers on one screen, with the checks you would otherwise do from memory happening before you commit.
The planner argues with you, on purpose
When you put a job on a vehicle, Transport Chief checks whether that actually works. Is the vehicle already out? Is the driver already on something? Does the vehicle class have the seats? Is there enough time to get from the last drop-off to this pickup?
Those checks are configurable, because operators differ on what counts as a problem and what counts as normal Saturday. What matters is that the system raises it while you can still change your mind, instead of you finding out on the day.
- Vehicle already committed
- Driver already committed, or unavailable
- Capacity below the passenger count
- Not enough turnaround between jobs
- Configurable per operator: warn, block, or ignore
Three views of the same day
A list is right for working through tomorrow's jobs. A timeline is right for seeing where the gaps are. A map is right for spotting that two jobs are twenty minutes apart and could be the same vehicle. You get all three, over the same data.
- Planner view for assigning
- Timeline view for gaps and utilisation
- Map view with routes drawn and colour-coded
- Filter to the vehicles or drivers you care about
Empty running is part of the plan
A charter is rarely just the passenger legs. The coach has to get to the pickup and home again, and it may need to be repositioned or yarded between jobs. Transport Chief models those movements as part of the booking, routes and measures them, and shows them on the plan.
The practical payoff is honest utilisation. A vehicle that looks free for three hours is not free if two of them are spent getting back from the last drop.
- Dead running at both ends, measured
- Staging and repositioning movements between jobs
- Yard-based movements handled properly
- Real availability rather than apparent availability
Put next month on the planner
Free for 3 months. Bring your real fleet and see what it catches.