Driving time under EU 561/2006 and working time, before you assign
Druma shows each driver's remaining hours from the tachograph or manual entry and warns in the confirm sheet before a load is assigned. It does not block.
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A planner drags a load from Cluj to Budapest, about 440 km, onto truck 14 on Tuesday afternoon. Pickup opens Thursday at 06:00. The driver shows as free. Whether the driver can legally drive it is checked in the confirm sheet that opens when the planner lets go of the load on the truck.
Judged at the pickup slot
The confirm sheet checks the driver's hours as they will stand when the pickup opens. A driver who is out of hours tonight has a fresh allowance after the daily rest, so the sheet checks the hours left after that rest. It warns in two cases.
The first is the daily rest. If the rest ends after the pickup opens, the sheet shows amber and says by how many minutes. If it ends more than four hours after the pickup opens, it shows red. With pickup at 06:00, a rest ending at 07:30 is amber and one ending at 10:30 is red.
The second is the driving time left at the slot. Under one hour left is red. Nine hours or more left gives no driving-time warning, whatever the distance. In between, Druma estimates the drive as distance divided by 80 km/h and shows amber when that estimate is longer than the hours left. For the 440 km to Budapest the estimate is 5 h 30 min, so a driver with 4 h 45 min left at 06:00 gets amber.
A loaded truck averages less than 80 km/h, so the estimate is on the short side. A driver with 5 h 45 min left shows no warning, although the real drive may well take longer than that. Treat a margin under an hour as tight and check it yourself.
Neither colour stops the assignment. The planner can assign anyway, and the override is logged against the order with who did it, when, and which rule was flagged. The sheet also offers an optional message to the client, sent by email when the planner assigns.
Load matching puts a truck last when its driver would have under two hours at the slot, and auto-plan counts thin hours as a cost when it compares trucks.
Where the hours come from
Remaining driving time is read from the tachograph card through the telematics provider, where the provider exposes it, or entered by the driver in the driver app. A truck with nobody logged in shows the hours of the card in the cab. The Driving hours page lists the daily, weekly and fortnightly time left per driver, under Regulation 561/2006: driving limits, breaks, rests, the 30-hour window for double-manned crews, and ferry or train interruptions.
A missing reading is never counted as zero hours used. In the driver app the unknown figure shows as a dash.
In the cab
The Hours tab shows what the driver has left today. For a roadside check the app prepares a record of the current day and the previous 56 days (Art. 36 of Regulation 165/2014), readable offline once cached, under a banner saying it does not replace the printout from the driver card.
DDD and TGD files go into the Tacho archive, uploaded by hand or pulled daily from the truck makers' systems that offer them. A badge appears when a download is due.
Each truck carries its tachograph generation and a flag for international work. Both heavy-vehicle retrofit deadlines have passed, the last in August 2025, so a truck flagged international and still recorded below smart G2V2 shows as overdue. Either the truck or the record needs fixing.
Questions we get asked
Does the driver app replace the tachograph?
No. Regulation 165/2014 requires type-approved equipment, and the app says so on screen. Manual entries are for vehicles outside the scope, exemptions and working-time records.
Does it cover working time as well as driving time?
Partly. Besides Regulation 561/2006, the checks apply two rules of Directive 2002/15/EC: the break after six hours of work and the ten-hour cap on night work.
Why does a long international load not always show amber?
Because the driving-time check only runs when the driver has under nine hours left at the slot. It does not plan the rests of a multi-day run, so do that yourself.
Does it handle vans over 2.5 tonnes?
A van can be brought into scope with a fleet setting, and its hours are then tracked like a truck's. The van retrofit date is not in the calendar.