Chain of Responsibility (CoR)

Transport & logistics

Compliance & inspections

Reporting & dashboards

Fatigue Management

Fatigue management is the practice of controlling the risk that tired drivers pose to road safety. For fatigue-regulated heavy vehicles in Australia, it involves complying with work and rest hour limits, keeping accurate records such as a work diary, planning realistic schedules, and recognising the signs of fatigue. It is part of the chain of responsibility, so the duty extends beyond drivers to operators and schedulers.

National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR)

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is the Australian body responsible for administering the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL), which applies to heavy vehicles over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass in participating states and territories. The NHVR oversees areas such as vehicle safety and standards, fatigue management, mass and dimension limits, accreditation schemes, and access permits for restricted routes.

Fleet Management

Fleet management is the administration of an organisation’s vehicles and mobile plant, including acquisition, maintenance, fuel management, driver compliance, GPS tracking, and disposal. It covers light vehicles, heavy vehicles, trailers, mobile plant, and any other registered or unregistered mobile assets. Modern fleet management relies on telematics, GPS tracking, and software platforms to optimise operations and reduce costs.

Pre-Start Inspection

A pre-start inspection is a systematic check performed on plant, equipment, or vehicles before each use or shift to identify defects, damage, or unsafe conditions. It typically follows a standardised checklist covering safety-critical items such as brakes, steering, lights, tyres, guards, fluid levels, and warning devices. In Australia the legal duty behind it is the requirement to inspect plant in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations, so where an operator's manual specifies a check before each shift, that check is how the duty is met.

Compliance Management

Compliance management in asset-intensive industries is the systematic process of ensuring that equipment, operations, and personnel meet all applicable regulatory, safety, environmental, and contractual requirements. It encompasses tracking inspection due dates, certifications, licences, safety checks, environmental obligations, and industry-specific standards. Compliance management requires both proactive scheduling and thorough record-keeping.

Driver monitoring system (DMS)

A driver monitoring system points inward. Using an infrared cabin-facing camera so it works at night and through sunglasses, it tracks head pose, eye state and posture to infer whether the driver is attentive. It is the counterpart to ADAS, which points outward at the road. In fleet equipment the two are usually sold together in a single dual-facing unit, and the terms are often used loosely as though they were one feature.

Video telematics

Video telematics combines road-facing and sometimes driver-facing camera footage with the telematics data recorded at the same moment: GPS position, speed, heading, acceleration and time. Traditional telematics tells you that a harsh braking event occurred at a location and a speed. Video telematics shows you what was in front of the vehicle when it happened. Most systems record continuously to local storage and upload only short clips around a triggered event, because uploading every minute of footage over a mobile network is neither affordable nor useful.