Two businesses. One platform.
Most operators run two businesses at once - contract or registered route work, and private hire. RouteStra runs both off one driver pool, one fleet and one compliance record, so the two sides never drift apart - and you stop paying for two systems that don't talk.
The bits that have to agree, agree.
One driver pool - hours validated across both
Your drivers don't belong to "the coach side" or "the service side" - they're one pool. When you assign a Saturday charter, RouteStra runs the same drivers' hours, rest and Working Time checks it runs on a service duty, and warns you before a private-hire job pushes someone over their limit or breaks Monday's school run.
One fleet, one workshop, one record
Every vehicle, walkaround, defect and MOT lives in one place, whether the bus is on a registered service or out on a charter. The workshop queue doesn't care which side of the business a defect came from - it's the same fleet, the same off-road list, the same costs.
One compliance record across both flows
Drivers' hours, sign-on, walkarounds, incidents and the audit trail span both worlds. When the traffic commissioner asks, it's one pack - not a registered-services binder plus a separate private-hire spreadsheet that disagree with each other.
One rota, both kinds of work.
Plan the registered week
Author services and trips (or design the whole network in Blueprints); they publish into the duty board as service duties.
Take the private-hire booking
A charter enquiry becomes a quote, then a job - landing on the SAME duty board as a private-hire commitment.
Assign from one pool
The duty builder shows both kinds of work together and validates hours across them - so nobody gets double-booked.
Run the day once
Sign-on, live tracking and Team Operations cover every driver and vehicle, whichever side of the business they're on today.
Close it out together
One set of compliance records, one payroll export, one invoice run - across both flows.
Operators who run both, every week.
Term-time school services Monday to Friday, private coach hire at the weekend, on the same vehicles and drivers. RouteStra keeps the contract rota and the weekend charters on one board so a Saturday tour can't quietly leave Monday's run short.
Other parts of the platform
Ready to simplify your scheduling?
Tell us about your fleet and we'll come back with a tailored quote. We'll help you migrate your data and walk your team through every module you turn on.
We're with you before, during, and after setup - our team is here to help every step of the way.