Routes, working hours, deadlines — all under control.
Klacks plans routes and drivers — keeping the absolute 60-hour weekly limit, the 48-hour average over the reference period, and Period of Availability (POA) under S.I. No. 2/2005, recorded as its own absence type not counted as working time, all in view. Routes are optimised automatically.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
The 60-hour limit, reference period and POA
Absolute 60-hour weekly limit
S.I. No. 2/2005 sets an absolute maximum of 60 hours in any single calendar week for mobile road transport workers — on top of the 48-hour average limit.
48-hour average over 4 months
The reference period for the 48-hour average limit is 4 months by default; an extension to 6 months is only possible through a collective or workforce agreement, not automatically as in other sectors.
Recording Period of Availability (POA) correctly
Waiting time at borders or during ferry crossings counts as POA rather than towards the 48-hour working time, but must still be recorded and made known to the worker in advance — a frequent source of error by hand.
Your finished shift plan in three steps
Install
Klacks is installed on your own infrastructure — via Docker; allow about half an hour for the first start.
Adjust rules
Public holidays and rest periods come preconfigured for your country, surcharges where defined for your country — and you can adjust them anytime.
Plan automatically
Klacks builds shift plans, flags conflicts and optimizes routes — with an AI assistant if you want.
How Klacks takes the load off logistics in Ireland
From optimised routes to separately recorded POA — it all fits together.
Routes optimised automatically
Klacks sequences stops in the most sensible order — short journeys, time windows kept, fewer empty runs.
60-hour and 48-hour limits monitored
Klacks checks the limits you have set up under S.I. No. 2/2005, both the absolute 60-hour weekly limit and the 48-hour average limit over the rolling 4-month reference period, live — correctly factoring in each driver's start date — and warns before a limit is exceeded. On request, Klacks blocks any breach in the automatic planning paths (e.g. wizard, suggestions, substitution); in manual planning, Klacks warns.
POA recorded separately
Klacks lets you record Periods of Availability (POA) as their own absence type not counted as working time, so they are visible in the roster and known to the worker in advance.
Matching licence categories
In automatic planning, Klacks only assigns routes to drivers with the matching licence — and warns before certificates expire. If a required document is missing or has expired, Klacks refuses the assignment, in manual planning too — only drivers with a valid licence are scheduled.
Installed on your premises: data stored on your servers
Klacks runs on your own infrastructure — route and driver data are stored on your servers, and with a locally hosted AI model, no AI request goes to an external AI provider.
Klacksy understands your request
"Plan tomorrow's routes, driver Murphy is off sick" is enough — Klacksy starts the replanning, and the planning engine takes the configured working-time limits into account.
What Klacks can do — in real recordings
Short videos from the running app, sorted by topic. Choose a chapter; only the video of the open chapter ever plays.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
- Klacksy helps you get it right in every one of these cases: describe your rule in the chat in your own words, for example “Sundays earn a 50% surcharge.” — Klacksy asks follow-up questions, shows a preview and only saves once you confirm.
- Klacksy also creates scenarios and starts planning inside them — tell it in the chat, for example: “Plan Winterthur from November 2 to 8.”
- Klacksy, the built-in AI assistant, can also do all of this for you on request — for example, tell it in the chat: “Add expenses of 24.50 for Mia on October 6.”
Uniform nationwide, split at the border
The Republic of Ireland has no public holidays at county or municipal level: all statutory holidays apply uniformly nationwide under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. For businesses with ties to Northern Ireland, though, what applies across the border still matters — a completely separate holiday regime is in force there.
- No patchwork within Ireland itselfUnlike many other countries, the Republic of Ireland has no public holidays at county or municipal level — the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 sets all statutory holidays uniformly nationwide. Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, has an entirely separate regime.
- Combining the Republic and Northern IrelandA business in the border region — say, in Dundalk (County Louth) or Letterkenny (County Donegal) — or with locations in Dublin and Belfast keeps both calendars side by side: St. Brigid's Day (the first Monday in February) and the June bank holiday in the Republic, Orangemen's Day (12 July) in Northern Ireland.
- Active or informational onlyYou decide per calendar whether a holiday affects hours & surcharges — or simply appears as a reminder.
It all comes down to the settings
Klacks offers countless ways to calculate rules and hour credits for nights, weekends, public holidays and overtime — exactly the way your contracts and company agreements require.
- Nights and weekends You set the night window and the surcharge rates yourself, and choose up to three weekend days — as a multiplier that is added to the hours worked as a time credit in hours.
- Public holidays and overtime A separate public-holiday rate, and overtime per day or per week in up to three tiers. When several surcharges fall on the same hour, the highest one applies — or all of them add up.
- Your own calculation with a macro If that is not enough, a macro does the maths: a short script using weekday, time of day, public holidays and contract values — with conditions, loops and functions of your own.
- Scheduling rules Rest periods, maximum daily and weekly hours, consecutive working days, free Sundays or hour caps per period — each one as a warning or, in automatic planning, as a block.
Rule violations: Klacks warns you instantly
Klacks flags time collisions, rest periods that are too short, too many consecutive working days and work on holidays right as you plan — as an error or warning in the error list.
Rest period too short - Video 1 of 4
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The best route — automatically
From your service addresses, Klacks works out the most sensible order and shows the finished route on the map. All you choose is the mode of transport.
- 1Capture addresses Every service location has an address on file — Klacks knows the way.
- 2Optimize the order Klacks works out the shortest sensible sequence — detours and empty runs are reduced.
- 3Show it on the map The finished route appears on the map — by car, bike, or on foot.
Stylized example: Klacks connects the service locations into the shortest route.
Experience Klacks in your logistics business
Try the Playground to see how Klacks optimises routes, monitors working-time limits and records POA as its own absence type — or install it directly on your own infrastructure. No license fees and without registration.
Klacks is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Host it yourself, keep your data with you, pay no license fees — you stay in full control.