Routes, working hours, loading times — all under control.
Klacks schedules routes and drivers — with working and rest time limits you configure per TGA (الهيئة العامة للنقل) and the summer midday ban for loading and unloading at uncovered ramps.
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.
TGA Driving Hours, Rest Times and the Summer Midday Ban
Driving Hours under TGA
A maximum of 9 hours of driving time per day (exceptionally 10 hours, no more than twice a week), 56 hours per week, and a maximum of 90 hours per two weeks (ساعات القيادة) — hard to guarantee by hand across many drivers and routes.
Breaks & Rest Times
After at most 4.5 hours of continuous driving, a break of at least 45 minutes is mandatory, plus 11 hours of daily rest and 48 hours of rest after a work week. Fine for violations: SAR 2,000 to 5,000.
Summer Midday Ban at Ramps & Loading Zones
From June 15 to September 15, loading and unloading at uncovered ramps and loading zones is banned daily between 12:00 and 15:00 — loading times must be scheduled accordingly.
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 Saudi Arabia
From optimised routes to the summer midday ban — it all fits together.
Routes Optimised Automatically
Klacks sequences stops in the most sensible order — short distances, time windows kept, fewer empty runs.
Working-Time Limits Checked
The 9-, 56- and 90-hour values can be configured as maximum working time per day, week and two weeks and are monitored in real time — Klacks checks working time, not driving time, and warns before any limit is exceeded. On request, Klacks hard-blocks a breach in automatic planning; with manual planning it stays at a warning.
Rest Times Checked, Breaks as Blocks
Klacks checks the 11-hour daily rest and the 48-hour weekly rest you configure; the 45-minute break after 4.5 hours of driving can be scheduled as a block in the route, but is not checked against the break requirement.
Summer Midday Ban at Ramps as a Blocked Period
If the window from 12:00 to 15:00 (June 15 to September 15) is stored as a blocked period, Klacks flags assignments within it, and on request automatic planning does not place any loading or unloading at uncovered ramps there.
Matching License Classes
Klacks assigns routes only to drivers with the appropriate license — and warns before certifications expire. If a required certification is missing or has expired, Klacks refuses the assignment, in manual planning too — only drivers with a valid certification are scheduled.
Klacksy Understands Your Request
"Plan tomorrow’s routes, driver is sick" is enough — Klacksy starts the replanning, and the planning engine takes the configured working and rest time limits and the summer midday ban, configured as a restricted time window, 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.”
A calendar that follows the moon
In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development decrees all four official public holidays centrally — uniformly across the whole Kingdom, with no provincial or municipal level like in Europe. The real challenge lies elsewhere: the two religious holidays, whose exact date is only confirmed at short notice by moon sighting.
- Uniform nationwide, no regional levelEid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, National Day on September 23 and Founding Day on February 22 apply unchanged across the whole Kingdom — for the public and private sector alike, with no cantonal or municipal exceptions.
- Mix calendarsA business based in Riyadh or Dhahran with partners in the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain or Oman needs several country calendars running at once — moon sightings occasionally differ by a day between Gulf states, as they did between Saudi Arabia and Oman in 2023.
- Binding or purely informationalFor each calendar, you decide whether a holiday affects hours & premiums — 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.
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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.
Rest Times and the Summer Midday Ban, One Plan
Klacks checks the configured working and rest time limits and immediately flags assignments within the summer midday ban stored as a blocked period (12:00 to 15:00, June 15 to September 15), so that loading times at uncovered ramps fall outside the window.
Experience Klacks in Your Logistics Business
Try the Playground to see how Klacks plans routes, working hours and the summer midday ban — 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.