Absences & appointments – vacation, workshop and inspections at a glance
Plan driver vacation and sick leave as well as workshop and inspection appointments for trucks, trailers and swap bodies in one central calendar – live for the whole team. And when a tour collides with an appointment, dispatch warns you automatically.
The calendar that keeps your fleet in view
No more vacation lists in Excel and workshop notes on the pin board: in CargoWiz, driver vacation and sick leave sit next to workshop and inspection appointments for trucks, trailers and swap bodies – in one calendar, right inside the dispatch system. The whole team sees what's coming up. And whatever collides, dispatch reports by itself.
Month, week or day – your choice
Switch between month, week and day view with one click. Colors and icons show at a glance whether an entry concerns a driver or a vehicle, and multi-day entries – say, two weeks of vacation – span across the days. You spot bottlenecks before they happen.
Search and filters by resource type and category – any entry found in seconds.
A new entry in a matter of seconds
Pick who or what the entry is for – a driver, or a piece of equipment such as a truck, trailer or swap body. Then set the category, say vacation, sick leave, workshop or inspection, choose the timespan – all-day or by the hour – and add a note if needed. That's all it takes.
Live for the team: every change appears on your colleagues' screens instantly – no refreshing.
Dispatch warns you before the mistake happens
The decisive advantage: calendar and tour planning are one system. Plan a tour onto a driver who is on vacation, or onto a truck with a workshop appointment, and CargoWiz warns you automatically – right at assignment. And it stays a warning, not a blockade: as the dispatcher, you keep control and decide yourself.
Conflict: driver is absent
M. Weber is on vacation Aug 12–16. Assign the tour anyway?
Warnings instead of blockades – dispatch thinks along, you decide.
Vacation lists in Excel, workshop notes on the pin board
At many freight forwarders and transport companies vacation is tracked in an Excel sheet, workshop dates hang as notes on the pin board – and when which truck is due for inspection usually lives in one dispatcher's head. When they're on holiday or off sick, exactly that knowledge is missing. Every dispatcher knows what follows: a tour gets planned onto a driver who entered his vacation weeks ago, or onto a truck that's in the workshop that same day. Then the last-minute replanning begins – phone calls, swaps, frustration on the team. And in the worst case a vehicle misses its inspection because the date simply got lost.
One calendar for everything – right inside dispatch
CargoWiz bundles all absences and appointments in one calendar that is firmly connected to dispatch. Driver vacation and sick leave sit next to workshop and inspection appointments for trucks, trailers and swap bodies – in month, week or day view, with colors and icons for driver and vehicle entries. New entries take seconds: pick who or what the appointment is for, set category and timespan, done. Every change appears on your colleagues' screens instantly – no shouting across the office, no refreshing. And because calendar and tour planning are one system, CargoWiz warns automatically as soon as a tour is dispatched onto an absent driver or a booked vehicle. The knowledge no longer lives in one head, but in the system – for the whole team.
What you get out of it
All absences and appointments in one place – instead of Excel, notes and shouting.
No more tours on vacationing drivers – dispatch warns automatically.
Workshop and inspection dates for trucks, trailers and swap bodies always in view.
Live for the team: every change instantly visible on all screens.
How it works
Create an entry: pick driver or equipment, set category and timespan – all-day or by the hour.
Keep the calendar in view: month, week or day – with colors, icons, search and filters.
Dispatch warns automatically when a tour collides with vacation or a workshop date.
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Try absences & appointments live
In a live demo we'll show you how vacation planning and appointment management look in CargoWiz – including automatic warnings in dispatch.