Rosters
Rosters do not stop at nine in the evening and neither does this. We read the shift pattern before we price it. Where a roster cannot be run inside a driver's legal hours we say so, and quote the version that can.
One vehicle, one plant, two drivers, on a pattern we are asked for most weeks. The hours are the argument. From half past five in the morning to half past eleven at night is one vehicle’s day and it is two men’s.
The driver takes the vehicle out with the sheet for the morning on it: four addresses, the plant gate at five past six, and the coordinator he rings if somebody is not downstairs.
Free waiting runs from the time printed on the sheet, not from the moment the vehicle arrives, so a driver who gets there early does not start anybody else’s clock.
Fourteen people through the gate on one vehicle. A route only works if it is on time, which is why the stop list is fixed and the timings are in the contract rather than in a message.
The same vehicle takes the outgoing night shift back. Two runs before ten in the morning is ordinary on a plant roster, and it is why the vehicle is costed by the duty rather than by the trip.
Eleven people between two units at the flat point of the day. A vehicle only stands between peaks if the contract has nothing in the middle for it, and putting something there is the cheapest saving on most rosters.
Eight hours from sign on, which is where the Motor Transport Workers Act puts the end of a working day. The vehicle carries on. The man does not, and a quiet morning does not buy an extra hour at the other end.
A second driver, named on the roster and known to your coordinator before he arrives. The vehicle has stood for three hours in between, which is the honest reason a roster is priced per duty and not per hour out of the yard.
The morning in reverse, and the run where a delay at the gate costs the most, because every duty after it is behind by whatever this one lost.
The hour a duty runs at changes nothing on it. A midnight pick-up and a seven o’clock one on the same route are the same figure, whoever is in the vehicle and however many stops it makes on the way.
The order of the addresses on a night route is agreed with you before it runs rather than left to the driver, and where your own policy calls for a marshal or a rule about who may be last, it is written into the roster and priced with it.
Eight hours again. Two duties, two men, one vehicle, and the whole spread covered without anybody being asked to drive through it.
Tomorrow’s vehicle and both drivers, with their numbers, reach your coordinator by nine in the evening. On a roster like this one that is while the night half of today is still running.
Each of these costs us something to state, which is the only reason they are worth reading.
A motor transport worker may be required to work eight hours in a day and forty eight in a week, and not more.
We quote a roster in duties rather than in vehicles. Where your pattern spreads wider than one man can lawfully cover, the quotation says how many duties and how many drivers it takes, and the figure is what that actually costs rather than what it would cost if somebody drove through it.
Nobody may drive a transport vehicle unless his driving licence specifically entitles him to do so, which for a seventeen seater is an endorsement and not a general licence.
Cover on a roster comes off a named list of men who hold that endorsement and already know your route, which is why a substitute is arranged the evening before and not found on the morning. Whoever happens to be free is not a pool for this work.
Defines a contract carriage as a vehicle engaged as a whole under one contract, on terms that it will not stop to pick up or set down anybody outside that contract.
Your shift vehicle is yours for the duty. It will not take a fare on the road and it will not carry somebody who is not on your list, including on the empty run back. That is a permit condition and not a courtesy, and it is worth knowing before somebody at the gate asks the driver for a lift.
The list is sized to the duty rather than to the contract. A seventeen seater is the workhorse of a plant or a campus shift. A twelve seater is a flight crew on a hotel run. The SUV and the sedan are here because a thin night shift is four people and sometimes one, and sending a seventeen seater for one woman at two in the morning is both dearer and worse.
Force Traveller 12/17/25, Force Maharaja 20, Force Urbania 17, or similar
Toyota Innova Crysta, or similar
Maruti Dzire, Honda Amaze, or similar
Eicher 25/27, or similar
Effective . Driver allowance is charged per calendar day and is on the rate card with everything else.
Each duty is counted from the first pick-up to the last drop, on the odometer. The run out to the first address, and the run back to base afterwards, are ours and they are not on your bill. Where a route crosses a state line the entry tax is at actuals and named on the quotation, not buried in the per-duty figure.
The figure on your quotation is the figure you pay. Everything payable at actuals is a named line on it, with a number against it, before you confirm. Nothing is added afterwards.
The first is not ours to move and no operator can quote around it. The second either arrived on your coordinator’s phone or it did not.
8 hours
a driver's working day under the Motor Transport Workers Act, s.13
9 pm
you know tomorrow's driver and vehicle by
One vehicle can. One driver cannot, and we will not quote it that way. The Motor Transport Workers Act caps a working day at eight hours, and section 183(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act makes it an offence for an employer to require a driver to drive beyond his permitted hours, so a spread like that is two duties and two men. You get a quotation with that written into it rather than a cheaper one that quietly depends on somebody driving eighteen hours.
Yes, and the first thing we ask for is the roster itself and the duty pattern the current operator runs. We price the version that fits inside duty limits. Where the pattern you have now does not, the quotation names the duties that have to change and what each change costs, so you can see the difference before you move anything.
No. A duty is priced on the vehicle, the distance and the class, and none of the three moves because the shift begins at eleven or at seven. Two identical runs on the same roster, one at dawn and one at midnight, are quoted at the same figure and appear on the invoice as the same figure.
He rings the coordinator on the duty sheet rather than driving off. The office line is answered at any hour, so there is somebody to escalate to at two in the morning as well as at two in the afternoon. Waiting past the free period is charged by the hour and it appears on the bill as its own line.
The vehicle and the driver for the next day are settled the evening before, with his name and his number, and that goes to whoever runs your roster. It is the same rule for one airport drop as for a shift route with fourteen duties in it. An aggregator assigns a driver a few minutes before the pick-up and cannot do this at any price.
Yes, and they are the same problem in different vocabulary: a report time somebody else has set, a vehicle that has to be at the hotel before it, and no room in the day if it is not. A crew move is usually a twelve seater or an SUV, a plant or campus shift a seventeen seater, and both are quoted per duty on the published class rates.
A roster is quoted per duty, and the quotation names how many vehicles and how many drivers the pattern actually needs rather than the smallest number that fits on paper. Waiting past the free period and a duty cancelled after the vehicle has left are named lines with figures against them before the contract starts, so nothing about a busy week arrives as a surprise on the invoice. The hour a duty runs at is not one of those lines.
Sending an enquiry is not a booking and does not hold a vehicle. We price the trip, send you a fixed all-inclusive figure in writing, and nothing is reserved until you confirm that figure.
A quotation naming the duties, the vehicles and the drivers your pattern needs, with anything that will not fit inside legal hours marked and re-priced rather than quietly accepted.
Written quotes 9 am to 9 pm, seven days. The line itself is answered at any hour.
