What does a fleet manager get from a TMS?
A fleet manager gets one live view of every vehicle, driver and trip, remaining driving and rest time per driver, vehicle utilization and the real cost per trip. Transportial combines real-time tracking from its driver app or telematics with fleet records, maintenance reminders and per-trip cost and margin reporting in one platform.
Fleet managers juggle telematics portals, maintenance spreadsheets, tachograph data and cost reports that rarely agree. Transportial treats every vehicle, driver, trailer and container as an entity with its own profile, history and live state. Positions come from the OpenMove driver app or from connected telematics, and the fleet map shows each vehicle with its current trip. Driver profiles hold license details, certifications and tachograph card data, and remaining driving and rest time updates as the trip progresses. Vehicle profiles record maintenance events, tire replacements and compliance certificates, with reminders for upcoming inspections. On the cost side, configurable hourly rates per driver, fuel and tolls feed into trip costs, which are set against revenue so the fleet manager sees cost per mile and margin per load instead of estimating them. The vehicle routing solver uses the same data to raise load factors and cut empty miles.
How does a TMS help keep driving and rest times compliant?
A TMS helps by building driving-time limits into dispatch instead of checking them afterwards. Transportial's solver plans trips within driving and rest-time constraints, alerts check every generated plan against them, and each driver's remaining driving and rest time updates in real time as the trip progresses, so violations surface before the truck leaves.
Hours-of-service limits cap daily and weekly driving and prescribe breaks and off-duty periods, and a plan that ignores them either fails on the road or creates a violation. Transportial makes driving time part of the plan instead of an afterthought. Driving and rest-time constraints are built into the solver, and every generated plan is automatically checked against them. Driver activity and availability are visible on the dispatch board, which prevents assignments that clash with rest or leave periods. During the trip, each driver's remaining driving and rest time updates in real time as stops are completed, so dispatchers can see who can still take an extra load. For a quick check of a single driver outside the platform, Transportial also offers a free hours of service calculator based on the FMCSA property-carrying rules. Together this keeps compliance information in the same system that plans and runs the trips.
