Drivers

Use the drivers planner

Plan trips, timeslots and calendar events per driver on a day, two-day or week timeline, and drag work onto drivers.

Updated October 5, 2026

Who can do this: The drivers planner feature (chauffeurs-planner) on your platform.

The drivers planner shows one lane per driver along a timeline. On each lane you see the driver's trips, timeslots, calendar events, to-dos and planned actions. You use it to see who is free and to plan work directly on a driver.

Open the drivers planner

Open the side menu (☰), choose Drivers and click Planner next to the list title. The planner opens on its own page.
Or go to the dashboard, open the Planner tab and switch the type selector to Chauffeur.

Find your way around

Choose the period: Day, 2 days or Week.
Use the arrows to move through time, or Today to jump back.
Type in the search field to find drivers by name.
Use the filter and sort icons to narrow down and order the lanes. Your filters are remembered.
Use the search panel on the left to find shipments and other items to plan.

Create work on a driver

In the planner header, choose what a click on a lane creates: + Create trip, + Create calendar event, Create activity (a timeslot) or + Create action.
Click an empty spot on the driver's lane at the time you want.
Fill in the form that opens and click Save.

You can also right-click an empty spot and choose New trip here, Plan activity, New calendar event or Plan action.

Plan by dragging

Drag a shipment from the side panel onto a driver's lane. Transportial creates a trip for that driver, starting at the time where you drop it, with the driver's first paired vehicle.
Drag a trip bar to another time or another driver to move it.
Drag a calendar event or a planned action marker to reschedule it.
Drag a vehicle from the search panel onto the driver's name at the start of a lane to pair them.

If your planning settings split shipments when trips are created automatically, a dropped shipment only plans its first two actions. See Plan board settings.

Open and change items

Click a trip to open it and make changes.
Click a timeslot to change it, or to remove it with Remove if your role may delete timeslots. Tachograph timeslots are locked.
Click a calendar event to edit it.

Bulk availability

Open the options menu in the planner header and choose Bulk availability to create timeslots, calendar events or to-dos for many drivers at once. See Plan driver availability.