Free Australia NHVR Fatigue Log

Standard Hours sets a default set of work and rest limits available to any operator; Basic Fatigue Management and Advanced Fatigue Management are accredited schemes that allow different, generally more flexible, limits in exchange for additional fatigue-risk-management obligations on the operator. A driver or vehicle needs to be operating under the scheme the business is actually accredited for — you can't apply BFM limits without the accreditation behind it.

Yes — HVNL fatigue rules generally count relevant work time beyond just time spent driving, including loading, unloading, vehicle inspection, and other work directly connected to the vehicle's operation. Logging only driving time and omitting this other work time understates actual hours and can mask an approaching or already-occurred breach.

HVNL fatigue offences are categorised by risk level, reflecting how far outside the permitted limits the breach falls and the associated safety risk, with different penalty consequences attached to each category. Classify a flagged breach using current NHVR guidance rather than treating every exceedance as equivalent, since the response and record differ by category.

Under HVNL's chain-of-responsibility approach, multiple parties can carry fatigue-management obligations depending on their role — not just the driver behind the wheel. This log supports the operator's side of that responsibility by showing that work and rest hours were actually tracked and reviewed, which matters regardless of where a specific breach's liability ultimately sits.