What is Driving and Resting Times

Use the Driving and Resting Times (also called “remaining times”) module to retrieve the detailed information about the status of remaining driving and resting times of drivers. DRT module is a module designed to monitor and manage the driving and resting periods of drivers, ensuring compliance with regulations. The DRT module aims to prevent rule violations by providing explicit view and alerts to both drivers and back-office users when they approach or exceed legal limits on driving and resting times. This functionality is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency and safety within transportation services.


Base URL	<https://driving-and-resting-times.api.eu1.scalar.zf.com>
Audience	DRTAPI, API
Supported Versions	V1

Why use Driving and Resting Times

Purpose I: Get current remaining driving times data

ZF Scalar allows users to access drivers' remaining driving times data, which is based on tachograph (tacho) records of driving and rest periods. Remaining driving times information includes details of driver activities, such as continuous driving times, daily and weekly driving times, calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements and rest periods taken. Counters provide current driving times compared to maximum allowed.

Purpose II: Get current remaining resting times data

ZF Scalar allows users to access data on drivers' remaining resting times, which is based on tachograph (tacho) records of driving, working, availability and rest periods. The remaining time information includes details on the driver's activities, such as current resting time, daily and weekly resting times, and number of reduced rests taken. Counters provide performed and current data compared to expected.

Purpose III: Be warn when a counter is about to be reached or is exceeded

ZF Scalar allows stakeholders to be informed when a counter or a set of counters reach or overlap his (their) limit(s). Based on tachograph (tacho) records of activities and resting periods compared to boundaries set in each counter, the module will display graphical indications by changing related counter(s) color and raise alarms following threshold reached.

Use Cases

Use case I: See how long a driver can drive

Collects the Driver ID and returns the details of the driver’s remaining driving and resting time.
Compares activities performed to goal setting and indicates remaining driving times for the selected driver.
Switches from a driver to another to see who can perform the next trip.

Use case II: See when a driver will be allowed to end his rest

Collects the Driver ID and returns the details of the driver’s remaining driving and resting time.
Displays the rest counters of the driver that indicate duration of the remaining resting times to do.
Schedule driver next work in accordance with these remaining times.

Use case III: See what the duration of the next weekly rest could be

Collects the Driver ID and returns the details of the driver’s remaining driving and resting time.
Based on data from previous weekly rest compared to Regulation requirement, see what the expected duration of the weekly rest is to come.
Plan to stop the driver only for the minimum required time.

Use case IV: Feed the planning tool with Driving and Resting times data

Call the driving and resting times api to retrieve the counters of the driver(s)
Return the whole set of counters for the selected driver(s)
Sent these data to the planning tool to have work schedule set in accordance with regulation requirements.