Transport planning without the empty kilometres.
Transport planning in frameLOGIC runs on an interactive timeline: orders and their current status shown as diagrams, combined into routes and paired with vehicle, trailer, and drivers by drag and drop. Dispatchers see which routes still need covering, search for vehicles to take return loads, and manage subcontracted orders in the same view.
ETA that respects driving-time limits, not just the map.
In heavy transport, an arrival estimate is more than distance plus traffic. frameLOGIC calculates ETA from the factors that actually govern a truck's day: driver driving and rest limits (solo and crew), refuelling, loading and unloading, customs clearance, and other operational stops. At the planning stage the system checks whether a route is feasible in the promised window, sets the departure from a dynamically updated ETD, and places the required breaks along the way. During execution, live vehicle position, remaining driving time, and current road conditions feed the estimate, so dispatchers track the schedule against reality, give customers a reliable unloading time even on multi-stop orders, and get notified about anomalies instead of hunting for them. After a mid-route swap of vehicle or driver, ETA is recalculated from the moment the new driver takes over the load.
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Route planning tools built for dispatch work
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AI AutoPlanner
Weighs every vehicle-route combination at once, analysing tens of thousands of approach variants. The output is a proposal. Nothing goes into execution until a dispatcher approves it.
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Three optimisation models
Plan for highest profit (amount), highest margin (% of freight), or shortest distance, and the model is chosen per planning run.
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Five planning modes
“All with all”, “back to the base”, “move the fleet”, “find the truck”, and “most important customer” cover the typical dispatch scenarios.
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Full cost picture
Approach distance and cost, road tolls, additional procedures, and overheads enter every calculation, with a financial forecast per route and overall.
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Return-load search
Filter vehicles by availability, end location of current work, and date to pair return orders and cut empty runs.
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Mid-route changes
Vehicle, trailer, and driver swaps, trailer and load deposits, with occupancy control on vehicles, trailers, and drivers during every modification.
A plan that watches itself once the truck is rolling.
An approved route reaches the driver terminal together with truck-grade navigation and POI points. From that moment the system compares actual progress against plan: a deviation from the assigned corridor raises an alert, and when a corridor is at risk of delay it suggests alternatives, before the delay becomes a fact. Loading, unloading and stop statuses reported from the cab feed back into the estimate, so the customer gets an arrival time that keeps up with reality instead of a promise made when the order was dispatched. The same channel carries document photos and digital proof of delivery, and exceptions such as a vehicle swap, crew driving or a damage report are handled without a call to the dispatch office.
What this looks like in the system
A route plan on the map: stop sequence, breaks and the cost breakdown for the trip.
Frequently asked questions
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How does dynamic route planning work during execution?
Routes in progress stay editable on the timeline: dispatchers combine additional orders into a running route, handle approach and return legs, and record vehicle, trailer, or driver changes. The system controls resource occupancy during each modification and raises alerts when a contractor exceeds its credit limit or a carrier's documents approach expiry.
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What does the AI AutoPlanner optimise in route planning?
The AutoPlanner proposes vehicle-to-load assignments, considering all vehicles and all routes at once. The decision stays with the dispatcher, who approves the result. It weighs approach cost and distance, road tolls, additional procedures, and overheads, checks that pickup is feasible within driver working time, then forecasts the financial result for the whole plan and for each route, so low-profit routes can be rejected before dispatch.
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How is ETA calculated in road transport?
For trucks, ETA combines the route with driver driving and rest limits, operational stops such as refuelling, loading, and customs, and current traffic. frameLOGIC updates the estimate live from vehicle position and remaining driving time, handles crew driving with its extended limits, and recalculates ETA after a load handover to another driver or vehicle.
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What happens when a route starts running late?
The system does not wait for the driver to call. A deviation from the assigned route corridor raises an alert in the platform and in the app, and when a corridor is at risk of delay it suggests alternatives. ETA is recalculated in parallel, so the dispatcher sees the new arrival time and can warn the customer before being asked. Notifications about required breaks and driving limits (EU 561/2006) make sure that making up time does not come at the cost of regulatory compliance.
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Can the module manage subcontracted orders?
Yes. Forwarded routes are defined and tracked alongside your own fleet: the timeline shows how subcontractors are progressing, transport order documents print straight from the system, and carrier settlements are recorded against each job.