Driver Work and Rest Hours Register

A driver work and rest hours register in Excel, for businesses that run fatigue-regulated heavy vehicles and keep their own records of each driver’s work and rest. It works as a driver fatigue log book and a business record alongside the driver’s work diary. Type each driver’s shift and rest totals and the sheet adds up the last 7 and 14 days, then marks any figure that breaks a limit for the driver’s option as OVER in red. The standard hours limits for solo and two-up drivers are filled in; limits for other options are typed from the driver’s certificate.

What Is Included In Our Driver Work and Rest Hours Register?

• A Start Here sheet: type your details once and they appear on every sheet and printed page
• A Daily Log with one row for each driver for each day: vehicle, work and rest option, shift times, work and rest totals and a work diary reference
• A Fatigue-Regulated column that shows whether the vehicle’s GVM or GCM, or a bus’s seating, brings it under the work and rest rules
• Standard hours limits for solo and two-up drivers on a Limits sheet, with room to add the figures for any other option
• Six limit checks and a Day Result, with rolling work totals for the last 7 and 14 days and a count of night rest breaks
• A Drivers and Vehicles sheet holding the fields a record keeper must hold: licence, contact details, base and the date it changes, vehicle registrations and payment records
• An Option Changes sheet with the 48 hour reset break fields
• A Fitness Concerns sheet that records each fatigue or fitness concern and what was done
• Colour highlighting and counts of days over the limits on the Start Here sheet
• A plain-English summary of the Queensland rules on fatigue, work diaries and record keeping

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland): ss 26C, 228, 243, 250, 264, 293, 317, 319 and 341
• NHVR work and rest hours page: standard hours for solo and two-up drivers

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Excel workbook with no macros
• Drop-down lists, frozen headings, automatic rolling totals and limit checks, and colour highlighting
• Room for 400 daily log rows, with more rows when you need them
• Print-ready pages with your business and site details repeated on every printed page
• Drop-down options you can change on the Lists sheet to suit your fleet

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.