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Map the risk
Identify where decisions move between roster, time, HR, payroll, credentialing, and care systems.
Industries
Transport & logistics
Fatigue rules don't flex. Your roster shouldn't gamble.
Chain-of-responsibility makes the scheduling decision itself a liability. Smartta checks hours, rest windows, licences, and pay rules before the next shift is confirmed — pass, flag, or gate — and records who approved what, under which policy.
Rest windows and rolling hours checked at rostering · licences and medicals gated · CoR evidence per decision.
Next shift
Linehaul driver — 04:00 start
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Gate
Rest window
6.5h since last shift — below required rest
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Flag
Rolling hours
Approaching the 7-day threshold
✓
Pass
Licence & medical
Current, class-matched, medical on file
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Ready
CoR evidence
Decision, policy, and approver recorded
Shift assignment
Held until a compliant driver is assigned — with the reason on record.
A fatigue breach caught at rostering is a swap. Caught after an incident, it's chain-of-responsibility liability.
The decisions we check
The scheduling decision, checked before the truck moves.
Hours, rest, eligibility, sourcing, and pay — the decisions that carry chain-of-responsibility and wage risk are checked where they happen: at the roster.
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Fatigue and hours
Rest windows, rolling hours, and consecutive-shift limits flagged before the shift is confirmed.
Time & Pay Control →
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Licences and medicals
Licence class, medical currency, and inductions gated at assignment — drivers and subcontractors alike.
Credentialing →
✓
Subcontracted capacity
When the run goes to an owner-driver or agency, rate, budget, and quals are checked first.
Roster & Sourcing Control →
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CoR-ready evidence
Who approved the shift, under which policy, with what data — inspectable per decision.
Workforce Assurance →Drift flagged in-cycle — hours, coverage, and subcontractor spend surface while the roster can still change.
The plan
Three steps to safer workforce decisions.
In transport: where fatigue, licensing, and pay risk enters the schedule — subcontractors included.
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Control the decision
Configure checks that pass, flag, or gate high-risk workforce decisions before they move downstream.
In transport: rest windows, rolling hours, and licences checked before the shift is confirmed.
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Prove the outcome
Keep decision evidence ready for payroll review, compliance checks, incident response, and operational governance.
In transport: every scheduling decision on record — ready when CoR questions arrive.
What changes
Runs covered. Rules kept. Records ready.
The same check protects the driver, the scheduler, and the officers the chain of responsibility reaches.
For schedulers
Fatigue and eligibility answered at rostering — no side-system lookup, no gamble.
For finance
Owner-driver and agency premiums gated against budget before they're committed.
For compliance
CoR questions answered per decision — who, why, which policy, what outcome.
Transport & logistics
See where your roster carries CoR risk.
A short review of how rostering, time, licensing, and pay connect today — and where checking the decision earlier removes fatigue and wage exposure.