Multi-Day & Haul Planning

Bodha Route Planner offers two ways to plan work across multiple days:

1. Multi-Day Route Planning — Split a large list of stops across several days, with each day becoming its own optimized route. Best for local delivery operations with more stops than one day can handle.
2. Overnight Haul Planning — Plan a multi-day trip where a single driver stays out on the road, sleeping at stops along the way. Best for long-haul trucking, regional circuits, and multi-day service routes.

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Multi-Day Route Planning

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When to use it

Use multi-day planning when you have more stops than your drivers can complete in a single day. Instead of manually splitting the list and creating separate routes, the planner does it automatically — respecting driver availability, shift hours, due dates, and vehicle capacity. Examples:

• You receive 200 orders on Monday that need to go out over the week
• A weekly batch of inspection sites needs to be distributed across 5 days
• You want to plan the entire week’s deliveries for your fleet in one go

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Step-by-step: Planning across days

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1. Create a route and add all your stops

Create a new route and import your full workload — all stops for the entire period (week, fortnight, etc.). You can add stops by:

• Importing a spreadsheet (CSV or Excel)
• Pasting addresses
• Adding from the Orders inbox
• Typing manually

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2. Assign your drivers

Select the drivers who will work on this batch. Each driver can have their own depot (home location) — the optimizer starts and ends each day’s route from the correct location for each driver.

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3. Click “Plan across days”

Instead of clicking Optimize (which creates a single-day route), click Plan across days. This opens the planning wizard.

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4. Configure the day grid

The day grid is the heart of the multi-day planner. It shows a table with dates as rows and drivers as columns. Each cell represents one driver on one day. For each cell, you can set:

• Max stops — The maximum number of stops this driver should handle on this day. Leave blank for no limit — the planner decides based on shift hours and service time.
• End time — When this driver’s day ends. Defaults to the shift end time from the depot or driver profile. Override it for specific days (e.g. half-day Wednesday).
• Day off — Mark a cell as off if a driver isn’t available on a specific day. No stops are assigned to that driver on that day.

The wizard shows a running total at the bottom so you can see how many stops will be covered vs. your total.

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5. Choose your options

• Start date — The first day of the plan (defaults to today).
• Number of days — How many days to plan across.
• Working days — By default, the planner uses your working days from Settings → Route Planning (typically Monday–Friday). Toggle Include non-working days if you need to plan on weekends or other off-days.
• Replace or Append:
  • Replace — Creates a fresh plan from scratch. Use this when starting a new plan.
  • Append — Adds more days to an existing plan without changing days already planned. Use this when new stops come in mid-week.
• Due dates — If your stops have deliver-by dates, the planner respects them. A stop due on Wednesday won’t be scheduled for Thursday. Stops with past due dates or dates beyond the plan range are held back and stay unscheduled.

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6. Click Plan

The engine distributes your stops across the days and drivers, creating a separate optimized route for each day.

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How the planner distributes stops

The multi-day planner considers several factors when deciding which stops go on which day:

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After planning

• Each day becomes its own route, visible on your routes list:
  • “North Region — Day 1 (Mon 3 Nov)”
  • “North Region — Day 2 (Tue 4 Nov)”
  • etc.
• Each day route shows the number of stops, total distance, drive time, and estimated finish.
• Your original route becomes a pool (plan container) that holds the overall plan and any unassigned stops.
• Any stops that couldn’t be assigned appear in the Unassigned list with a reason (shift too short, capacity exceeded, etc.).
• You can dispatch routes individually or all at once. Drivers see each day’s route in their app.

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Re-planning

Need to adjust after planning?

1. Open the pool route.
2. Click Re-plan.
3. Adjust the day grid — add a day, change caps, mark a driver as off.
4. Click Plan across days again.

Rules for re-planning:

• Day routes that haven’t been dispatched are replaced with new ones.
• Day routes that are In Progress or Completed are kept — only unstarted days are re-planned.
• Unassigned stops from re-planning stay on the pool.

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Overnight Haul Planning

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When to use it

Use overnight haul planning when a driver leaves the depot and stays out on the road for multiple days — sleeping at or near their stops — before returning. This is different from multi-day route planning, where drivers return to the depot each night. Examples:

• A truck driver delivering across a region over 3–5 days, sleeping at truck stops
• A service technician covering a territory over a week, staying at hotels near job sites
• A long-haul delivery route that takes multiple days to complete

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How it works

Overnight haul planning is designed for a single driver on a multi-day trip. The planner accounts for driving hour limits, mandatory rest periods, and where the driver sleeps each night.

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1. Enable haul planning

Go to Settings → Route Planning → Overnight haul planning and toggle it on. This makes the haul option available in the multi-day planner.

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2. Open the haul wizard

From your route, click Plan across days and choose Overnight haul mode. The wizard opens with a trip-focused layout.

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3. Set the trip dates

• Start date — When the driver leaves the depot.
• Number of driving days — How many days the driver will be actively driving. Rest days (if any) are inserted between driving days.

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4. Choose driving hour rules

The driving hour rules determine how long a driver can be on the road each day. Select a preset that matches your regulations, or set custom limits:

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5. Configure overnight stops

For each night of the trip, choose where the driver sleeps:

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6. Mark rest days (optional)

If the trip includes a non-driving day — for example, a mandatory weekly rest day, a day with no stops in the area, or a personal rest day — toggle the Driving checkbox off for that day. The driver rests at their previous night’s location and resumes the next driving day.

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7. Click Plan

The engine plans the entire trip: splitting stops across driving days, fitting mandatory breaks into the schedule, placing rest periods between days, and respecting all driving hour limits.

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Firm days

The firm days setting (in Settings → Route Planning → Overnight haul planning) controls how many days at the start of a haul are locked in. When you re-plan a haul to add stops or adjust the schedule, firm days stay unchanged.

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Driver notification policy

Controls how drivers are informed when a haul plan changes (set in Settings → Route Planning → Overnight haul planning):

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Use cases

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