Can the same fleet run scheduled routes and one-off bookings?

Yes. Recurring scheduled routes and on-demand bookings run on one instance, sharing the same vehicles, drivers, and dispatcher board.

How are fixed-route prices set?

Each corridor gets its own price, with a separate rate for each direction. Time-of-day, seasonal, and vehicle-class multipliers apply on top automatically.

Can recurring bookings be created for the same passengers every week?

Yes. Recurring routes can be booked for a passenger or a group, including administrator-managed bookings with notifications to the passenger or parent.

Does the system stop a driver being scheduled beyond legal limits?

Driver availability is set as recurring shifts, and the scheduler prevents assignments that go past the driving limits you configure.

What vehicle sizes are supported?

Anything you define, from sedans and minivans through minibuses to 50-seat coaches, each with its own capacity, luggage allowance, and accessibility tags.

Shuttle and Minibus Route Operators

How We Help

Transfer Booking runs recurring routes and one-off bookings on the same platform, so a scheduled line and a Saturday private hire do not need two systems. Fixed-route pricing sets a known price per corridor with a separate rate for each direction, and seasonal or time-of-day multipliers apply on their own instead of being worked out per booking. Driver Management holds recurring shifts and blocks assignments that would push a driver past the driving limits you configure, and vehicle classes from a minivan to a 50-seat coach carry their own capacity, so a route is never given a bus that cannot seat the group.

Overview

A fixed-route shuttle looks simple from outside: same road, same times, same stops. The difficulty is that the route runs whether or not the assigned driver is available, whether or not the minibus is in the garage, and whether or not yesterday's bookings show up today. Every change has to be made before 06:00, not discussed after.

Operators running scheduled lines usually keep the timetable in one file, the driver rota in another, and the passenger list in a messaging group. Nothing reconciles on its own, so a swapped shift or an added departure gets copied into three places by hand.

Industry Challenges

Common obstacles and pain points that organizations in this industry encounter in their daily operations and growth.

A fixed route has to run to timetable even when a driver calls in sick, so the rota and the route plan need to sit in one place rather than two files.

Pricing a corridor by hand on every enquiry throws away the advantage of a route whose cost is already known.

Recurring passengers book for weeks at a time, and a schedule change has to reach all of them at once rather than through a messaging group.

Scheduled lines and private hire compete for the same vehicles and drivers, usually without either side seeing the conflict until the morning it matters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to the most common questions about how 8Move serves the shuttle and minibus route operators industry.