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Compliance

Fatigue, licence & evidence checks — built into quoting

From 1 August 2026, the Heavy Vehicle National Law reform replaces NHVAS with the new HVA scheme, and every accredited operator needs a documented Safety Management System. CoachQuote doesn't make you build a separate compliance process — the checks it already runs while you quote double as your evidence.

Your quote is your audit evidence. Every job you quote already generates a planned work/rest profile, a driver licence check, and a work ticket. The Evidence Pack (Reports screen) just bundles those into one PDF for an auditor — nothing new to fill in.
Fatigue

Work/rest profile — checked while you build the itinerary

As you add legs to a job, CoachQuote runs the NHVR Standard Hours (solo driver) rules against your planned depart, drive, and standby times — live, under the itinerary — so you see a fatigue issue before you send the quote, not after the job is already booked.

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Running tally per leg

Under each leg, CoachQuote shows cumulative work vs rest — raw and creditable (the 15-minute block rule) — plus a countdown to the next required break.

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Standby duty matters

A standby leg needs a duty tag — Resting, On duty, or Other work — because "released" standby isn't automatically rest. Set it on the leg and the tally adjusts accordingly.

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Amber flag, never a block

If the planned day breaches Standard Hours, you'll see an amber "Needs attention" note with a concrete fix (e.g. "extend the 14:00 standby from 20 to 30 min"). It never stops you from quoting or saving the job — the call is always yours.

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Multi-day trips too

Each day gets its own panel, plus a check on the overnight gap between days (7 continuous hours rest required).

Itinerary · Leg 2 DEPART 08:00 TO Blue Mountains Drive 2h 10m · 100 km WORK / REST TALLY — AFTER THIS LEG WORK (RAW) 4h 10m REST CREDITABLE 0m NEXT BREAK DUE 1h 20m ✓ Within 5.5h/5.25h+15min bracket — no action needed ⚠ Needs attention — Leg 4 standby Extend the 14:00 standby from 20 to 30 min to clear the 8h window Planning estimate — not a work diary, not legal advice.
Planning evidence, not a work diary. The work/rest profile is a quoting-time estimate under NHVR Standard Hours (solo driver), computed from the times you've entered. It documents that you planned the job responsibly — it does not replace the driver's actual work diary, and it is not legal advice. Actual work and rest must still be recorded and managed by the operator and driver as required by law.
Licence Check

Driver licence class checked against the vehicle

Set a required licence class on each vehicle (Setup → Vehicles), and a licence class on each driver (Setup → Drivers, or directly on a job's vehicle allocation). CoachQuote compares the two automatically whenever you allocate a driver to a job.

Green check, red flag

A badge appears next to the driver field on the allocation row: a green "meets requirement" note, or a red flag naming exactly what's missing — e.g. "LR does not meet HR requirement."

Multi-coach jobs check every allocation

Each vehicle/contractor row on a job gets its own independent licence check — one coach failing doesn't hide a pass on another.

A nudge, not a gate

Like the fatigue check, this never blocks you from saving or quoting the job. It's there so the mismatch is visible before the job runs, not discovered on the day.

Reports

Compliance Evidence Pack — one PDF for the auditor

Reports → Compliance Evidence Pack turns any date range into a single, ready-to-hand-over PDF: a cover page summarising licence checks and fatigue flags across every job, followed by each job's full work ticket and work/rest profile page — the same documents you'd generate individually, bundled for review.

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Pick a date range

This month, last month, financial year, or a custom range. The pack includes every job with status Accepted or Completed in that window — the jobs that actually ran, not every quote you sent.

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Cover page tells you what to look at first

Job count, licence issues, and fatigue flags as headline numbers, then a table listing every job's licence check result — so you can spot problems without paging through the whole pack.

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Full documentation, job by job

Every job's complete work ticket (one page per coach on multi-vehicle jobs) and its work/rest profile page follow the cover page, in date order.

Where it fits an SMS Standard review: licence checks map to People 3.1/3.2 (fitness to drive, competency), the work/rest profile maps to Risk Management, and the pack itself is the Assurance evidence — one export instead of assembling records from three different places.
Reports · Compliance Evidence Pack This month This FY Custom range JOBS INCLUDED 24 LICENCE ISSUES 0 FATIGUE FLAGS 1 Licence check summary DATE REF CLIENT LICENCE CHECK 3 Jul CQ-0041 Riverside Tours HR ✓ meets HR requirement 9 Jul CQ-0044 St Mary's College HC ✓ meets HR requirement 15 Jul CQ-0049 Blue Gum Winery MR ✓ meets MR requirement Fatigue profiles are planning estimates, not work diaries or legal advice. ⬇ Download Evidence Pack Followed by each job's full work ticket + work/rest profile page →
FAQ

Common questions

Does this replace my HVA accreditation paperwork?

No. It generates the operational evidence an auditor would ask for — planned work/rest profiles, licence checks, work tickets — as a by-product of quoting. Your accreditation documentation, policies, and actual work diaries are still your responsibility.

Why don't licence class or fatigue flags stop me from saving a job?

CoachQuote never gates you from operating your business — it nudges. You know the real-world context (a relief driver arranged last-minute, a client who moved a pickup time) better than any rule engine. The flag exists so you can't miss it, not so it can override your judgement.

What if a job has no vehicle allocation or itinerary times?

The licence check shows "No licence data recorded" rather than a false pass, and the fatigue profile is skipped for that job rather than guessing — missing data never gets silently treated as a clean result.

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