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name: al-095-driver-hours-early-warning
description: "Check each driver's remaining stops against their driving and shift time to spot likely hours-of-service violations hours before they happen, like the Samsara Agent Studio agent S. Bertram Foods uses. Use when the user wants help with fleet compliance (operations) for a small business."
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# Driver hours early warning

Check each driver's remaining stops against their driving and shift time to spot likely hours-of-service violations hours before they happen, like the Samsara Agent Studio agent S. Bertram Foods uses.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Driver, remaining stops with estimated drive and stop times, driving…
- E.g. 11 hours driving, 14-hour shift window, required breaks, weekly…

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Here's today's route status: [paste: driver, remaining stops with estimated drive and stop times, driving hours used today, shift hours used, hours used this week]. Our limits: [e.g. 11 hours driving, 14-hour shift window, required breaks, weekly limit]. For each driver, estimate when they'll finish and whether they're likely to break a limit, and by how much. List at-risk drivers first, with the time the problem would start and one fix for each (move a stop to another driver, add a break, reorder stops). Flag any missing or odd data instead of guessing.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Check hours, breaks, overtime and any rules for young workers against your local labour law and staff contracts before you publish a schedule.
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Samsara Agent Studio, your telematics/ELD export
- Based on this real-world example: https://thelogisticnews.com/samsara-opens-agent-studio-to-all-customers-as-ai-agent-usage-surges-sevenfold/
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-095-driver-hours-early-warning/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/