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You check the truck, you rest when you should, your licence is current. The problem is not the work, it is proving the work. When the business you haul for is audited, or something goes wrong, they have to show the vehicles moving their freight were fit and the drivers were rested. That question lands back on you, and the records are usually in a glovebox, on a phone, or in your head.
Freighthouse turns all of that into a dated record you can produce on the spot. It runs in the browser on the phone the driver already carries, so there is nothing to install and nothing to buy. When a client asks for your compliance, you have it in front of you before you are off the call.
A heavy vehicle is one of the most dangerous things on the road. A driver who is not rested, or a fault that got waved through, is how people are killed or badly hurt, and it is almost always the small things, checked or not checked, that decide it. Doing the checks is what keeps your drivers and everyone around them safe. Keeping the record is what proves you did, on the day it is questioned.
The hard part is this: after something goes wrong, saying you run a tight operation is not enough. You have to show it. No record means no check done.
A tired driver or a missed defect can end in a crash that hurts your driver, another road user, or a family. The checks are there to stop that happening, and a habit of recording them is what keeps them from being skipped on a bad morning.
The businesses you haul for are tightening up. A carrier who cannot produce pre-starts, hours and current licences is a risk they will not carry, and one failed audit can lose you the contract that keeps the truck moving.
Under the Heavy Vehicle National Law you hold your own safety duty, and it cannot be handed off. Serious breaches are prosecuted, with penalties that reach into the millions for a business and prison for an individual, and an unsafe truck can be grounded on the spot.
This is general guidance, not legal advice. Heavy vehicle law is set by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator across most of Australia, and by Main Roads in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Check your own obligations for where you run.
The driver opens it, signs in and starts the day. The truck is checked, they confirm they are fit to drive, and the clock runs with the start and finish location captured, so hours and whereabouts are a record, not a memory.
Nothing to write up at the end of the week. Each of these is captured on the phone at the moment it happens, and it is there the day someone asks.
Around forty checks over the truck, the trailer and the load. A fail on a critical item tags the truck out until it is signed back on, and the odometer is captured every time.
Start and finish the day on the phone, with the location on the record. Work time and non-work time are kept apart, so hours and continuous days come out as a report.
Before the day starts the driver confirms they are rested, fit to drive and free of anything that would affect it. It is declared, dated and kept with the shift.
Each driver's licence class and expiry sits in a register that flags a month ahead of the date, not on the morning a client asks. Inductions go in the same place.
Insurance, registration, safety procedures and accreditation in one folder you own and can open in front of anyone. A request that used to take days is answered on the spot.
A fault found in a check is raised against the truck and stays open until it is fixed and signed back on, so a repair is not just a phone call nobody wrote down.
Every service, repair and tyre change kept against the truck, with dates and odometer. When a brake or a component fails, this is the record that shows you were on top of maintenance, not behind it.
Add your trucks and pick your tier. No setup fee, month to month, cancel when you like.
You and each driver set a password. Save the site to the home screen and it opens like an app.
Sign in, do the pre-start, confirm fit for work, and the clock runs with your location captured.
When a client asks for your compliance, pull the record and show it. You own the account.
It starts at a phone bill, not a capital decision, and the more trucks you run the less each one costs. No setup fee and no build project.
| 1 truck | $49 |
| 2 trucks | $89 |
| 3 to 5 trucks | $169 |
| 6 to 10 trucks | $299 |
| 11+ trucks | Custom pricing |
A fatigue-regulated driver still has to keep the written National Driver Work Diary, or an electronic work diary the NHVR has approved. Freighthouse records work and non-work time as a business record and as supporting evidence. It does not replace a work diary, and we do not claim it does.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory sit outside the Heavy Vehicle National Law and run their own heavy vehicle rules. Tell us where you run and the records are set up for that state.
This page explains how the records help and what tends to get asked for. It is not advice on your own obligations. Take that from your own adviser or the regulator.
The business you haul for shares the Chain of Responsibility for the freight you move. After an incident or in an audit they have to show the vehicles carrying their work were checked, the drivers were fit and rested and the licences were current. This is the simplest way for you to keep those records and hand them over when asked.
No. It runs in the browser on the phone the driver already carries. Save it to the home screen and it opens like an app. Nothing to install and nothing to buy.
It is tiered by fleet size and starts at $49 a month: $49 for one truck, $89 for two, $169 for three to five, and $299 for six to ten. Running more than ten? Reach out for customised pricing. No setup fee, month to month.
No. A fatigue-regulated driver must keep the written National Driver Work Diary or an electronic work diary approved by the NHVR. Freighthouse records work and non-work time as a business record and as supporting evidence. It does not replace a work diary.
You own the account and the records. You decide what to show and when. Nothing is shared with the business you haul for unless you produce it.
Add your trucks, set a password and start today. When a client asks for your compliance, you will have it in front of you.