Transport management system ETA calculator: legal HGV arrival time
A transport management system calculates a delivery time the driver can legally meet: 4 h 30 min driving blocks with 45-minute breaks, 9–10 hours of driving a day, 9–11 hours of daily rest, 56 hours a week and 90 hours a fortnight (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006; AETR on journeys through non-EU countries), then the unloading country's holidays and lorry bans. Example: 2,000 km at 70 km/h leaving Thursday 08:00 arrives Saturday 10:19 with one driver and Friday 21:34 with two.
Source: EUR-Lex · GOV.UK · Bundesministerium der Justiz · RIS (Austria) · Bison Futé / JORF · Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti · Dziennik Ustaw · BOE · Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi.
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When will the truck legally arrive?
When will the truck legally arrive? — Enter departure, route and distance: the planner lays out every break and rest the drivers' hours rules require, then checks the arrival against holidays and national lorry bans.
Rules applied: Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 in the EU; the UK's assimilated rules in the UK; AETR for the whole journey when it runs through Türkiye, Serbia or another non-EU AETR country; Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliği art. 98 for trips inside Türkiye. National driving bans are applied only where the planner's rule was checked in the national text: Germany, Austria, France, Italy (2026 calendar) and Poland.
Departure (local time, loading country) — The planner treats departure as the end of a regular weekly rest.
Loading country — Its lorry ban, if checked, is applied at departure.
Unloading country — Its holidays decide the unloading day; its lorry ban applies after the border.
Distance — From your own route; the planner does not route.
Crew — One driver, or double manning (Reg. 561/2006 art. 4(o)).
Average speed — Your planning assumption, not a statistic. Max. 90 km/h. Speed limiter: Directive 92/6/EEC art. 3(1) as replaced by Directive 2002/85/EC. Germany: 80 km/h on motorways for vehicles over 3.5 t (StVO §18(5)).
Transit countries (optional) — Their bans are listed, not applied.
km inside {country} (optional) — Lets the planner hold the truck at that country's ban.
Use 10-hour driving days (max. twice a week) — Reg. 561/2006 art. 6(1).
Use reduced 9-hour daily rests (max. three between weekly rests) — Reg. 561/2006 art. 8(4).
Allow a reduced 24-hour weekly rest after a regular one — Reg. 561/2006 art. 8(6).
Which drivers' hours rules does the calculator apply? — Each rule below is exactly what the planner computes, with the article it comes from. The planner never uses the exceptional extension (art. 12) or a ferry interruption (art. 9) to shorten a trip.
Continuous driving: 4 h 30 min — Then a break of at least 45 minutes, or 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes. The planner schedules one 45-minute break. — Reg. (EC) 561/2006 art. 7
Daily driving: 9 hours — Extendable to 10 hours at most twice in a week. Counted between two daily rests, not per calendar day. — Art. 6(1); art. 4(k)
Weekly driving: 56 hours — The week runs from Monday 00:00 to Sunday 24:00; a driving block across Monday midnight is split between the two weeks. — Art. 6(2); art. 4(i)
Two consecutive weeks: 90 hours — The planner assumes no driving in the week before departure. — Art. 6(3)
Double manning — Drivers alternate 4 h 30 min stints; the 45-minute break is taken on board while the other drives. The truck can run up to 18 hours, or 20 hours with two 10-hour days, before the crew rests. — Art. 7; art. 4(o)
Average speed: 90 km/h at most — Trucks over 3.5 t (N2, N3) carry a speed limiter set so the vehicle cannot exceed 90 km/h; the planner caps your average there. — Directive 92/6/EEC art. 3(1), as replaced by Directive 2002/85/EC
Türkiye, domestic trips — No more than 9 hours in any 24-hour period and 4 h 30 min continuously; no 10-hour extension and no 56-hour weekly cap; 90 hours per two weeks. The planner reads 'any 24 hours' as a rolling window, so a new driving day never starts less than 24 hours after the previous one began. — Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliği art. 98
Daily rest: 11 hours — Or split 3 h + 9 h (not used by the planner). It must be completed within 24 hours of the end of the previous rest; only the part inside that window counts. — Art. 4(g); art. 8(2)
Reduced daily rest: 9 hours — At most three times between two weekly rests. A long rest that starts late in the 24-hour window counts as reduced if fewer than 11 hours fall inside it. — Art. 8(4)
Double manning: 9 hours within 30 hours — Each driver takes a daily rest of at least 9 hours within 30 hours of the end of the previous rest. — Art. 8(5)
Weekly rest: 45 hours, reduced 24 hours — It must start no later than the end of six 24-hour periods after the previous weekly rest. In two consecutive weeks: two regular weekly rests, or one regular and one reduced; the reduction is compensated en bloc before the end of the third week following. — Art. 4(h); art. 8(6), 8(6b)
Not in the cab — A regular weekly rest, and any weekly rest over 45 hours taken as compensation, may not be taken in the vehicle; the employer pays for suitable accommodation. The driver must be able to return to the employer's centre or home every four consecutive weeks. — Art. 8(8), 8(8a)
AETR differences — No four-week return rule; only one reduced weekly rest at a time, followed by a full one; a regular daily rest can be interrupted only on a ferry. The planner never schedules two reduced weekly rests in a row under any regime. — GOV.UK, Drivers' hours: AETR rules
Working time is a separate limit — An average of 48 hours a week and no more than 60 hours in a single week; a break of at least 30 minutes after 6 hours of work, 45 minutes over 9 hours. Loading and other work are not in this planner. — Directive 2002/15/EC art. 4, art. 5
Türkiye, domestic trips — 11 hours of uninterrupted rest in every 24 hours, reducible to 9 hours at most three times a week; a weekly rest of at least 24 hours after at most six days of driving; with two drivers, each rests at least 8 hours without interruption in every 30 hours. — Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliği art. 98
Arrival is not unloading — The planner moves unloading to the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in the unloading country; Saturday unloading is a toggle. Consignee opening hours are not modelled. — Holidays dataset; GOV.UK bank holidays (England and Wales)
Germany — Sundays and public holidays — 00:00–22:00 for trucks over 7.5 t and for any trailer behind a truck. Ban days nationwide: 1 January, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 3 October, 25 and 26 December. Only in some Länder (listed, not applied): Corpus Christi (BW, BY, HE, NW, RP, SL), Reformation Day on 31 October (BB, HB, HH, MV, NI, SN, ST, SH, TH), All Saints' Day on 1 November (BW, BY, NW, RP, SL). Exempt, among others: combined rail–road transport up to 200 km, port hauls within 150 km, fresh milk, meat and fish, and perishable fruit and vegetables. — StVO §30(3)–(4)
Austria — weekends and public holidays — Saturday 15:00–24:00, and Sundays and public holidays 00:00–22:00, for trucks with a trailer where either unit exceeds 3.5 t and for trucks over 7.5 t. A separate night ban from 22:00 to 05:00 applies to trucks over 7.5 t that are not certified low-noise (listed, not applied). — StVO 1960 §42(1), (2), (6)
France — weekends and holiday eves — From 22:00 on Saturdays and on the eve of a public holiday until 22:00 on the Sunday or the holiday, for goods vehicles over 7.5 t. In 2026 also the Saturdays 11, 18 and 25 July and 1 and 8 August, 07:00–19:00, on every road in mainland France. — Arrêté du 16 avril 2021, art. 1; arrêté du 26 décembre 2025, art. 2
Italy — the 2026 calendar — Goods vehicles over 7.5 t on roads outside built-up areas, on the days and hours listed below. A vehicle arriving from abroad with its documents starts the ban 4 hours later; a vehicle leaving for abroad ends it 2 hours earlier. The 2027 calendar is issued by decree; until it is published the planner applies nothing for 2027. — DM n. 325 of 12.12.2025, art. 2, art. 3 and Allegato A
Poland — 12 holidays, their eves and summer weekends — Vehicles over 12 t only: 08:00–22:00 on 1 January, Easter Sunday and Monday, 1 and 3 May, Pentecost Sunday, Corpus Christi, 15 August, 1 and 11 November, 25 and 26 December; 18:00–22:00 on the day before each of those from Easter Sunday to 11 November; during the school summer holidays Friday 18:00–22:00, Saturday 08:00–14:00 and Sunday 08:00–22:00 (2026: 26 June to 30 August). Not on 6 January or 24 December, although both are public holidays. — Regulation of the Minister of Transport of 31.07.2007, §2 (Dz.U. 2023 poz. 2423)
Spain — listed, not applied — Vehicles over 7,500 kg are restricted on the road sections, days and hours listed in Annex II of the DGT resolution; without your route the planner cannot apply them. — Resolución DGT of 14 January 2026 (BOE-A-2026-1255), B.1
Every other country — not checked — Shown as "not checked". The planner does not claim those countries have no driving ban.
Time zones — Departure is the loading country's local time; each ban window is applied in its own country's local time; the arrival is shown in the unloading country's time too.
Italy: 2026 lorry ban calendar — DM n. 325/2025, Allegato A. Times are the start and end of the ban; from abroad +4 h at the start, to abroad −2 h at the end (art. 3).
2026-01-01 — 09:00–22:00
2026-01-04 — 09:00–22:00
2026-01-05 — 16:00–22:00
2026-01-06 — 09:00–22:00
2026-01-11 — 09:00–22:00
2026-01-18 — 09:00–22:00
2026-01-25 — 09:00–22:00
2026-02-01 — 09:00–22:00
2026-02-08 — 09:00–22:00
2026-02-15 — 09:00–22:00
2026-02-22 — 09:00–22:00
2026-03-01 — 09:00–22:00
2026-03-08 — 09:00–22:00
2026-03-15 — 09:00–22:00
2026-03-22 — 09:00–22:00
2026-03-29 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-03 — 14:00–22:00
2026-04-04 — 09:00–16:00
2026-04-05 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-06 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-07 — 09:00–14:00
2026-04-12 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-19 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-25 — 09:00–22:00
2026-04-26 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-01 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-03 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-10 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-17 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-24 — 09:00–22:00
2026-05-30 — 09:00–14:00
2026-05-31 — 09:00–22:00
2026-06-02 — 07:00–22:00
2026-06-07 — 07:00–22:00
2026-06-14 — 07:00–22:00
2026-06-21 — 07:00–22:00
2026-06-28 — 07:00–22:00
2026-07-04 — 08:00–16:00
2026-07-05 — 07:00–22:00
2026-07-11 — 08:00–16:00
2026-07-12 — 07:00–22:00
2026-07-18 — 08:00–16:00
2026-07-19 — 07:00–22:00
2026-07-24 — 16:00–22:00
2026-07-25 — 08:00–16:00
2026-07-26 — 07:00–22:00
2026-07-31 — 16:00–22:00
2026-08-01 — 08:00–22:00
2026-08-02 — 07:00–22:00
2026-08-07 — 16:00–22:00
2026-08-08 — 08:00–22:00
2026-08-09 — 07:00–22:00
2026-08-14 — 16:00–22:00
2026-08-15 — 07:00–22:00
2026-08-16 — 07:00–22:00
2026-08-22 — 08:00–16:00
2026-08-23 — 07:00–22:00
2026-08-29 — 08:00–16:00
2026-08-30 — 07:00–22:00
2026-09-06 — 07:00–22:00
2026-09-13 — 07:00–22:00
2026-09-20 — 07:00–22:00
2026-09-27 — 07:00–22:00
2026-10-04 — 09:00–22:00
2026-10-11 — 09:00–22:00
2026-10-18 — 09:00–22:00
2026-10-25 — 09:00–22:00
2026-11-01 — 09:00–22:00
2026-11-08 — 09:00–22:00
2026-11-15 — 09:00–22:00
2026-11-22 — 09:00–22:00
2026-11-29 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-06 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-08 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-13 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-20 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-25 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-26 — 09:00–22:00
2026-12-27 — 09:00–22:00
Assumptions
Each driver starts at the end of a regular weekly rest, with no driving in the current or the previous week.
No other work: loading, unloading, border, customs and ferry time are not included.
Constant average speed over your own distance.
Flexibilities are used as early as the rules allow: 10-hour days first, 9-hour rests while any of the three remain, a 24-hour weekly rest only after a regular one.
Split rests (3 h + 9 h), split breaks (15 + 30 min), ferry interruptions (art. 9) and the exceptional extension (art. 12) are not used.
Vehicle: an articulated truck over 12 t without exemptions, so every checked national ban applies.
The unloading country's ban applies from the moment the truck crosses into it, which needs the km inside that country; without that figure the planner only flags a conflict. The loading country's ban is applied at departure; transit bans are listed.
Weekly limits follow the loading country's calendar week.
About the holiday data
National public holidays for 236 countries, 2025–2050. Future years are projections; dates of moving feasts can shift.
Germany: federal public holidays only; Land holidays are not in the data.
United Kingdom: England and Wales bank holidays from GOV.UK, including substitute days (Boxing Day 2026 is observed on Monday 28 December).
Türkiye and 31 other countries with lunar-calendar holidays: religious holidays after 2026 are not in the data yet, and the planner warns when the unloading date falls in 2027 or later.
Regional holidays (Spain's autonomous communities, Swiss cantons and similar) are not included.
A planning aid, not legal advice and not a tachograph check: the driver's actual record decides. Check exemptions and national rules before dispatch.
What is a transport management system and what does it calculate for every load?
A transport management system (TMS) is the software a carrier or forwarder runs its loads through: orders and stops, vehicles and drivers, documents, tracking and invoicing. The calculation that separates it from a spreadsheet is the one on this page: a delivery time the driver can legally meet.
That time is not distance divided by speed. Every 4 h 30 min of driving needs a 45-minute break, every driving day ends in a rest of 9 to 11 hours, and the week and the fortnight have their own caps. Then the calendar decides: a truck that reaches Germany on a Sunday waits until 22:00, and one that arrives on a public holiday is unloaded on the next working day.
Worked example from this calculator: 2,000 km at 70 km/h is 28 h 34 min at the wheel, but a single driver leaving on Thursday 1 October 2026 at 08:00 arrives on Saturday at 10:19 at the earliest, 50 h 19 min after departure.
In Logistivo, that definition runs as one system: quoting, live tracking, documents, invoicing and accounting share the load's data, so what is entered for a load is reused for its CMR, its invoice and its journal entry. Stops on a trip are ordered by the shortest route with one action and come out as a PDF or Excel trip report plus a driver route sheet, the office follows the truck on a live map with location history from the driver app, and the CMR consignment note is generated as a PDF from the load's data. See load management in Logistivo.
How many hours can an HGV driver drive per day, per week and per fortnight?
Nine hours a day, extendable to ten hours twice a week; 56 hours in a week; 90 hours in any two consecutive weeks (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, art. 6). The "day" is the time between two daily rests, not the calendar day: a driver who starts at 18:00 can drive through midnight and still be in the same driving day. To check a fortnight the driver has already driven against these limits — driving, breaks and rests — use the HGV drivers' hours calculator; it lists each breach of 561/2006 or AETR with its article.
The UK applies the same limits to lorries over 3.5 t under the assimilated rules, and AETR uses the same figures on journeys through non-EU countries. Working time is a separate ceiling: an average of 48 hours a week under Directive 2002/15/EC, and it includes loading and other work.
When does the driver have to stop for a break or a rest?
After 4 h 30 min of driving, a break of at least 45 minutes, or 15 minutes followed by 30 (art. 7). After the day's driving, a daily rest of 11 hours, or 9 hours at most three times between two weekly rests (art. 8(4)). The rest must be finished within 24 hours of the end of the previous one, so a day that starts at 06:00 needs its rest completed by 06:00 the next morning.
The weekly rest, 45 hours or 24 hours reduced, must start no later than six 24-hour periods after the previous one. In the planner's 5,000 km test run starting on a Monday at 06:00, it is the 56-hour weekly cap, not the six-day rule, that stops the truck: the driver reaches 56 hours on Friday at 21:00 and rests until Monday 00:00.
How much faster is double manning?
With two drivers the truck keeps moving while one of them takes the 45-minute break in the passenger seat, and the crew's daily rest is 9 hours within every 30 hours (art. 8(5)). The vehicle can run 18 hours a day, or 20 hours while both drivers still have a 10-hour day left that week.
On the same 2,000 km trip from Thursday 08:00, two drivers arrive on Friday at 21:34 instead of Saturday at 10:19, 12 h 45 min earlier. Over 5,000 km the gap grows to almost four days (98 h 26 min against 188 h 41 min), because the single driver runs into the 56-hour weekly cap.
Which rules apply between the UK and the EU, and on trips through Türkiye or Serbia?
Between the UK and the EU, lorries over 3.5 t follow the UK's assimilated rules (formerly the EU rules) in the UK and Regulation 561/2006 in the EU; the limits are the same (GOV.UK). If any part of the journey runs through a non-EU AETR country such as Türkiye, Serbia or Ukraine, AETR applies to the whole journey for vehicles registered in the EU or in an AETR country (Regulation 561/2006, art. 2(3)).
AETR differs in three places: there is no rule to return home every four weeks, only one reduced weekly rest may be taken at a time and it must be followed by a full one, and a regular daily rest can be interrupted only on a ferry. The planner applies the stricter weekly-rest sequence under every regime.
Can lorries drive on Sundays or public holidays in Germany, France, Italy, Austria or Poland?
Not in the ban windows, and the windows differ by country. Germany: Sundays and nine public holidays, 00:00–22:00, above 7.5 t. Austria: Saturday from 15:00, Sundays and holidays until 22:00. France: from 22:00 on a Saturday or a holiday eve until 22:00 the next day. Italy: a published 2026 calendar of days and hours. Poland: only vehicles over 12 t, on 12 listed holidays, their eves (18:00–22:00) and summer-holiday weekends; there is no general Sunday ban.
In the Christmas example (800 km from the UK on 24 December 2026 at 08:00, 250 km of it in Germany) the truck crosses into Germany at 17:36, stops for the day at 20:30 and rests through the 25 December ban until 22:00, reaching the consignee at 23:25 German time. Every window, with its legal reference, is in the Calendar limits column above. The same windows for nine countries, including Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia and Spain, are laid out day by day in the truck driving bans calendar 2026.
If the truck arrives on a holiday, when can it be unloaded?
On the next working day of the unloading country. In the Christmas example unloading moves to Monday 28 December 2026: 26 December is a public holiday and 27 December a Sunday. The planner lists every skipped day and why it was skipped.
Watch substitute days in the UK. When Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, as in 2026, the bank holiday moves to Monday 28 December, so a plan built on a plain holiday list would count that Monday as a working day. For England and Wales the planner reads the list GOV.UK publishes, substitute days included.
What is the difference between a TMS, a WMS and an ERP?
A TMS plans and runs transport: loads, stops, vehicles, drivers and delivery times. A WMS runs the warehouse: locations, stock and picking. An ERP keeps the company's orders and books. A road carrier or forwarder usually needs the TMS first; the guides below compare what each system should do and how they are priced.
Which planning mistakes cost a delivery slot most often?
Counting the 9 hours per calendar day instead of between two rests.
Forgetting that the daily rest must be finished within 24 hours of the previous one.
Using the 10-hour day more than twice a week, or the 9-hour rest more than three times between weekly rests.
Treating the week as any rolling seven days: the 56-hour limit runs from Monday 00:00 to Sunday 24:00.
Planning a regular weekly rest in the cab.
Assuming two reduced weekly rests in a row are fine on an AETR journey.
Treating a holiday list as a ban list: Poland has no ban on 6 January or 24 December, and Germany's ban days are not all of its holidays.
Using motorway speed as the average speed.
Assuming arrival means unloading.
Which TMS guides should you read next?
Which TMS guides should you read next? — The calculator answers "when"; these guides answer "which system".
Logistics software buyer's guide — What a TMS, a WMS and a fleet module should do, and what to ask before you sign.
Carrier software guide — Dispatch, driver app, documents and invoicing for road carriers.
Logistics software pricing — How TMS pricing models work and where the extra costs sit.
Country public holiday calendar — Public holidays of 236 countries for longer planning windows.
Vehicle tracking data analyser — Stops, dwell time and speed bands from a GPX, KML or CSV trace, and what 15-minute reporting misses.
Loading metre calculator — Place pallets to scale on the trailer deck, count loading metres and check gross weight against UK and EU limits.
Reorder point and safety stock calculator — Safety stock, reorder point and EOQ from usage, supplier lead time and service level.
Freight cost per km calculator — Checks whether an offered rate covers the variable and the full cost per loaded kilometre, with tolls and empty running.
OTIF calculator — On-time and in-full delivery rate from your own delivery log, with the rule for “on time” and the tolerance you choose.
CMR liability calculator — What the carrier pays for loss, damage or delay — 8.33 SDR per kg under CMR — and the claim deadline counted day by day from the delivery date.
Schengen 90/180 calculator — Days used and left in any 180 for a non-EU driver, the latest exit date and whether the next tour fits.
Truck toll calculator Europe — Toll per country and for the whole route at the official 2026 rates, by weight, axles, Euro and CO2 class.
Where the planning data lives in Logistivo — The legal ETA above is a free calculation. Inside Logistivo, the load data it starts from is kept in one place.
Multi-stop loads with routed legs — Add several pickups and drop-offs to one load; pickups are sequenced before drop-offs and each leg gets its routed distance and driving time.
Planned delivery date and carrier history — Every load and quote carries a planned delivery date, entered by you or read from the documents. The quotes, agreements and shipments with each carrier stay on your account, so choosing a carrier rests on your own record.
Driver app with live location — Drivers share their position from the Logistivo app on iOS and Android; the office sees a live map and location history and can request a fresh position.
Driver and vehicle documents — Driver and vehicle documents, tachograph calibration included, are tracked with expiry warnings, next to a Schengen 90/180-day counter per driver.
Run your loads in one TMS
Run your loads in one TMS — Loads with several stops, planned delivery dates, driver locations and documents in one place. Plans and prices are explained in the pricing guide.
Source
EUR-Lex — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — consolidated text of 22.05.2024 — https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02006R0561-20240522
EUR-Lex — Directive 2002/15/EC on the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities — https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2002/15/oj
Bison Futé / JORF — Arrêté du 16 avril 2021 relatif à l'interdiction de circulation des véhicules de transport de marchandises — https://www.bison-fute.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Arrete_joe_20210424_0097_0037.pdf
Bison Futé / JORF — Arrêté du 26 décembre 2025 — interdictions complémentaires 2026 — https://www.bison-fute.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/joe_arrete_interdictions_complementaires_TRM_2026.pdf
Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti — DM n. 325 del 12.12.2025 — calendario divieti mezzi pesanti 2026 — https://www.mit.gov.it/nfsmitgov/files/media/notizia/2025-12/DM_325.12-12-2025%20calendario%20mezzi%20pesanti%202026.pdf
Dziennik Ustaw — Rozporządzenie w sprawie okresowych ograniczeń oraz zakazu ruchu niektórych rodzajów pojazdów (tekst jednolity) — https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2023/2423
BOE — Resolución de 14 de enero de 2026 de la DGT — medidas especiales de regulación del tráfico 2026 — https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-1255
Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi — Karayolları Trafik Yönetmeliği (md. 98) — https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=8182&MevzuatTur=7&MevzuatTertip=5
Frequently asked questions
Does the calculator's arrival time guarantee compliance?
No. It is the earliest arrival that fits the rules under the stated assumptions. The driver's tachograph record, other work such as loading, border waiting and traffic decide what actually happens, so plan a buffer on top.
Are vans covered by the EU driving time rules?
From 1 July 2026, vehicles over 2.5 t used for international transport or cabotage are in scope of Regulation 561/2006 (art. 2(1)(aa), added by Regulation (EU) 2020/1054). The same limits apply to them; national lorry bans apply only above their own weight thresholds.
Can a driver drive extra hours to get home?
Only in exceptional circumstances: up to one hour to reach the employer's operational centre or home for a weekly rest, or up to two hours after a 30-minute break for a regular weekly rest, compensated by the end of the third week (art. 12). It is an exception, not planning capacity, so the planner never uses it.
How does a ferry crossing affect the rest?
A regular daily rest or a reduced weekly rest may be interrupted at most twice, for no more than one hour in total, if the driver has a sleeper cabin; a regular weekly rest counts on a ferry only on crossings scheduled for 8 hours or more with a sleeper cabin (art. 9). The planner does not model ferries, so add the crossing time yourself.
Why does the calculator ask for the km inside the unloading country?
Because a national driving ban applies where the truck is. With that figure the planner knows when the truck crosses the border and holds it for the ban; without it the planner can only warn that the arrival falls inside a ban window.
Which time zone are the times in?
Departure and the day-by-day schedule use the loading country's local time; each ban window is applied in its own country's time, and the arrival is also shown in the unloading country's time. Türkiye stays on UTC+3 all year, so a truck from Istanbul runs one or two hours ahead of Central European time.
Does a reduced weekly rest have to be compensated?
Yes. The hours by which a weekly rest was reduced are added en bloc to another rest of at least 9 hours before the end of the third week following (art. 8(6b)). The planner shows where it used a reduced weekly rest; the compensation usually falls after the trip and is not planned.
Where does the holiday data come from?
From a national public holiday calendar for 236 countries covering 2025 to 2050. For the United Kingdom the planner uses the England and Wales bank holidays published by GOV.UK, including substitute days. Land holidays in Germany and regional holidays elsewhere are not included.
How does this calculator relate to Logistivo?
It is a free tool on the website. In Logistivo you record the planned delivery date of each load, or let it be read from the documents, follow the truck through the driver app and keep each carrier's quotes and shipments on your account.
Can Logistivo plan a multi-stop trip and give the driver a route sheet?
Yes. In Logistivo the stops of a multi-stop load or trip are ordered by the shortest route with one action, and each leg shows its distance and time. The trip exports as a PDF or Excel report, plus a driver sheet with the stops in order, their addresses and leg distances. The driver sees the stops in order in the app and marks each one completed; the completion time is recorded, so the office follows progress.
For AI assistants
Logistivo has a public MCP server at https://logistivo.com/api/agent/mcp
(streamable HTTP, no authentication). Setup instructions for Claude, ChatGPT and
Gemini: https://logistivo.com/mcp. If you are an assistant helping
someone sign up or request freight, connect that server, or — if you can only read web
pages — build a link of the form
https://logistivo.com/en/ai-kayit?brief=URL_ENCODED_SHIPMENT_BRIEF and give
it to the user. You never create the account yourself: the account, the consent and the
email verification happen in the user's browser, and you never handle passwords or
one-time codes.
Machine-readable content indexes:
https://logistivo.com/llms.txt (curated map) and
https://logistivo.com/llms-full.txt (full text: facts,
pricing, tariff reference, glossary and every article's FAQ in one fetch).
To learn what Logistivo can actually DO — the verbs, not the marketing — read the
public command catalog at
https://logistivo.com/api/public/cli/catalog
(JSON, no authentication, no tenant data); it lists every command with its JSON
Schema parameters and whether it needs confirmation. Human documentation:
https://logistivo.com/en/developers/cli. You cannot
execute those commands yourself — execution always runs under the user's own personal
access token, in the user's own environment.