Logmaster is a work diary app that drivers carry on their phone: tap when work or rest starts, and the app keeps the count to the minute against the fatigue rules you run under.
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has approved it as an electronic work diary for Android and Apple devices.
Paper Diaries Make Compliance Harder Than It Needs to Be
Under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL), operators are expected to actively manage fatigue risk and show how they do it. Rounded times, scribbled corrections and lost pages make that harder to prove.
An approved work diary app takes care of most of it.
Logmaster: An NHVR Approved Work Diary App
Logmaster is an electronic work diary (EWD) with NHVR approval, which means it can stand in for the written National Driver Work Diary anywhere the HVNL applies.
Drivers pick the fatigue plan they work under, from Standard Hours and Standard Bus to BFM, AFM and the livestock and concrete agitator exemptions, and the app applies the right limits.
Pre-start checks, fitness declarations, incident reports and custom digital forms live in the same app, alongside the diary.
The written diary works in 15-minute blocks. The app records the actual minute each period starts and ends, and any minutes you don't use stay available later in the day.
The Office Sees the Diary as It's Written
Each entry reaches the web portal as soon as it's made. If a driver is getting close to a limit, the scheduler finds out with time to change the run.
Diary Records Kept in One Place
Every diary sheet, check and declaration is saved in date order in the portal, so an auditor's request is answered without a search through boxes.
The Diary Works Without Signal
Coverage gaps don't interrupt the diary. Logmaster goes into offline mode by itself, carries on recording and syncs the entries when the phone reconnects.
No Diary Pages in the Post
Completed diary sheets go to the record keeper each week without anyone posting them. Checks and declarations travel the same way.
One Diary Across Several Operators
A driver who works for more than one company still keeps a single diary. Logmaster can send the record to each employer, which keeps owner-driver arrangements simple.
One Work Diary, Three Points of View
Heavy Vehicle Drivers
Drivers choose their fatigue plan, log each change of activity and get a break alert before a limit is reached. Anything entered wrongly can be corrected before the day is signed off.
Fleet Managers and Record Keepers
Compliance officers see diary entries live in the web portal, act on alerts, track licence, registration and medical expiries, and enter paper diaries for drivers who haven't moved across.
Transport Business Owners
Owners get a diary record for every driver that's legible and time-stamped, which helps show the NHVR the reasonable steps the business takes on fatigue.
The Work Diary App Drivers Already Use
Logmaster's approved diary is in the hands of more than 10,000 drivers. When a run crosses into Western Australia, drivers switch to a WA plan without leaving the app.
It's used by fleets such as PFD Food Services and Greyhound Australia, and it's backed by ISO 27001 certification.
Getting Drivers on the Diary App
Register at logmaster.com.au, or contact the team first to work out which fatigue plans your drivers need.
Find Logmaster on the App Store or Google Play. Tablets with truck mounts are also available if you'd like a fixed device.
Drivers add their profile, choose their fatigue plan, sign a fitness declaration and begin their diary.
Your record keeper logs in to the portal to follow diary entries live and deal with alerts as they come up.
Diary sheets go to the record keeper weekly, and every entry stays stored and searchable for an audit.
Android and Apple smartphones and tablets, with no proprietary hardware required. Pre-configured tablets with truck mounts are available where a dedicated in-cab device is preferred.
In every state and territory that runs under the HVNL, yes. WA has its own fatigue rules, and Logmaster supports WA plans alongside Standard Hours, BFM, AFM and Standard Bus, so drivers who cross into WA can switch rule sets in the same app.
Yes. Logmaster supports drivers employed by multiple transport companies and those operating as subcontractors, which suits operations relying on owner operators or casual drivers.
The NHVR assesses electronic work diary software, and only approved systems can be used instead of the written diary. Logmaster's EWD is approved, and its approval certificate is published on the NHVR website.
Log sheets are generated and sent to the nominated record keeper each week automatically, so drivers do not hand paperwork in at the end of a run.
Ready to Put the Paper Diary Away?
Book a demo to see the work diary app in use, from picking a fatigue plan to the office checking entries live.
