Bus and passenger transport
Internal communications for bus and coach operators
The driver pulls out of the depot and doesn't see an office again all day. Blastack gets the diversion, the duty change and the procedure onto their phone before they start, and keeps a record of who has read it.
€1.00 per person per month · No card · No minimum term
What happens today
The four problems that keep coming up
The driver never goes through the office
They sign on, take the vehicle and go. Any channel that depends on them sitting at a computer doesn't exist for half the workforce.
A diversion is no use once they've left
A road closure, roadworks or a moved stop flagged at mid-morning already arrives late: the duty went out at six.
The depot noticeboard
It gets read if you walk past and happen to look. Nobody knows whether the night shift has seen it, and at a ten o'clock sign-on there is nobody to ask.
Procedures you have to evidence
What to do about an assault, an accident or a breakdown. If it ends up in front of the Traffic Commissioner or in court, you have to be able to show that the instruction went out, and when.
Use cases
What it gets used for in Passenger transport
- Closure or diversion notice targeted at one route or one depot
- Incident procedure with a read receipt
- Rota and duty changes published where drivers already look
- Incident report with a photo, with the vehicle stopped
- Anonymous survey by depot, so you know what happens on nights
- Directory with the traffic manager for each depot
What we don't solve
It doesn't schedule duties and it doesn't replace your operations system
It doesn't plan services, it doesn't allocate drivers, it doesn't count hours and it doesn't connect to your AVL or your ticketing system. And two things are worth saying plainly in this sector: it is read with the vehicle stopped, never at the wheel, and with no signal there is nothing to read until the phone picks up again.
Drivers had the diversion before they left the depot. With the noticeboard that depended on somebody looking.
What's included
All of this, from €1.00 per person per month
The noticeboard and the directory are in the base fee. Analytics, surveys, documents and chat switch on separately, at between one and ten cents per person.
Noticeboard and announcements
Posts with photo, video and PDF, targeted by site
Reach analytics
What percentage of your workforce has read each announcement
Surveys and employee engagement
Ask your workforce, with breakdowns and real anonymity
Documents with read receipts
Payslips, procedures and policies with proof of reading
Staff directory
Who is who, by department and by site
Roles and moderation
Who publishes, who approves, and what gets logged
Try it on one site and look at the number
Fifteen days, no card. Hand the code out at one plant, publish two announcements and look at what percentage of people read them.
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