DriverX is live for every Farrell Transport driver. This page explains what it is, how to get it, how your hours are counted under the fatigue law — and clears up the myths we keep hearing, straight from the law itself.
The company-wide rollout began on Tuesday 4 August 2026 and DriverX is now the way we run the day — timecards, prestarts, breaks, faults and leave all go through the app. If you haven't downloaded it yet, do it today.
The app is updated often — sometimes daily while we polish the rollout. Updates install themselves: just fully close and reopen the app now and then to pick them up. If something looks wrong, seems confusing, or just annoys you — tell us. Several improvements on this page exist because a driver spoke up.
DriverX is free on the App Store and Google Play. Search “DriverX” or tap a badge below on your phone.
Select Farrell Transport, then log in with the username and password you've been given. Haven't got yours? Call Ryan on 0432 232 235.
Tap “Forgot Password?” on the login screen and we'll text a code to your registered mobile number.
Allow notifications and location when asked. Location is recorded only between clock-on and clock-off — see “When you are and aren't tracked” below.
Six things today. Everything is recorded the moment it happens, time-stamped, and nothing needs handing in.
Clock on when you start, clock off when you finish, and record your breaks in between. This replaces your paper timecard — it is the record you are paid from.
Do your daily prestart check in the app, with photos. It is time-stamped and goes straight into our records.
Spot a problem with your truck? Report it with a photo and a few words. It goes straight to maintenance — no lost paperwork.
Request annual leave, sick leave or a day off straight from the app — no more paper forms or chasing the office.
Your legal work and rest position, live, counted the way the law counts it — plus a plan that tells you when to break, for how long, and what your day can still legally hold.
Going past 100km from base? The app draws your recorded day exactly like the paper daily sheet — the line, the times, places and odometer readings — so filling in your written diary is a copy job.
No jobs through the app yet. You'll keep getting your work exactly the way you do now. Job allocation through DriverX comes later, once the rollout has settled in.
Open the app and clock on when you start your day. That is your official start time.
Complete your prestart check in the app before you drive. Add photos of any defects.
The Fatigue screen shows when your next break is due and how long to take. Tap when you stop, tap when you get going — that is your proof of rest.
Anything wrong with the truck — report it in the moment. Photo, few words, done.
Finish your day and clock off. Your hours and breaks are saved — nothing to hand in. Location recording stops the moment you clock off.
Leave requests aren't tied to your shift — put one in any time from the app menu.
Standard hours for solo drivers, exactly as printed in the National Driver Work Diary (Part 4, Table 1) — the book in your truck. Every row applies at the same time, and “in any period” means every rolling stretch of the clock — not blocks you stack end to end.
| In any period of… | Maximum work | Minimum rest |
|---|---|---|
| 5½ hours | 5¼ hours | 15 continuous minutes |
| 8 hours | 7½ hours | 30 minutes, in 15-minute blocks |
| 11 hours | 10 hours | 60 minutes, in 15-minute blocks |
| 24 hours | 12 hours | 7 continuous hours stationary rest |
| 7 days | 72 hours | 24 continuous hours stationary rest |
| 14 days | 144 hours | 4 night rest breaks (2 on consecutive nights) |
Put together: you get your full 12 hours — but at most 10 of them can sit inside any single 11-hour stretch, which is why a 12-hour work day always spans at least 13 hours, with breaks totalling an hour placed through it. The 24-hour row sets the day's total; the rows above it set the pace.
You don't need to memorise any of this. The Fatigue screen's Today's Plan card does the arithmetic live: it tells you when to break, for how long, and the most work your day can still legally hold. Follow the times and you get the legal maximum, every day.
Every one of these came up in the first week of the rollout — from experienced drivers, and honestly, from management too. The rolling windows fool everyone. Here they are, settled.
“The app only gives me 11 hours — it should be 12.”
“I can work 12 hours straight, then have my break.”
“Two 15-minute breaks and I’m covered for the day.”
“If I take my breaks I can knock my 12 hours over faster.”
“I’ve done my 12 and had my 7 hours rest — I can start again.”
“The app counts different to my watch, so the app is wrong.”
“At 7.45pm Bob has undertaken the maximum 12 hours of work time in a 24-hour period… Bob can't start work again at 2.45am even though he has had the 7 hour major rest break… Bob must continue resting until 6am on Tuesday morning because that is when the 24-hour period he began on Monday finishes.”
By law, a written work diary counts time in 15-minute blocks, and the rounding always goes against you:
An approved EWD is allowed to count to the minute. DriverX is not an approved EWD, so it counts your time the same way as your paper diary — the same arithmetic a roadside officer uses. That is deliberate: it means the app's numbers are always defensible, never optimistic.
The practical tip that falls out of it: fewer, longer breaks beat many short ones. Every stop/start burns part of a 15-minute block, and a 17-minute break only credits 15. Clean 15s and 30s, roughly on the quarter hour, keep the most of your 12.
Nothing changes with your work diary. If you drive more than 100km from base you must carry and fill in the written work diary (or an approved EWD), exactly as before. The law requires it, and DriverX does not replace it.
What DriverX does do: it replaces your paper timecard, it is the company's legal record of your hours for local work, and its Work Diary Helper draws your recorded day exactly like the daily sheet — so when you do need the paper book (including the day you're unexpectedly sent past 100km and have to fill it in from midnight), it's a copy job, not a memory test.
GPS is recorded from clock-on to clock-off. Not before, not after, not at home, not on your days off. Tracking is tied to your shift, not to being logged in — clocking off stops it, and the app double-checks its own stop so nothing runs on.
See it for yourself: on Android, a notification saying “Location sharing is on while you're clocked in” is pinned the entire time tracking runs — Android does not allow background tracking without it. Clock off and the notification disappears. No notification, no tracking. Your phone's privacy dashboard (Settings → Privacy) also shows exactly when any app accessed your location — you'll see DriverX's accesses sit inside your shift hours.
“But my phone says I'm being tracked” — what phone settings show is that DriverX has permission to use location (“Allow all the time”). Permission is the key, not the tracking — the app needs it so tracking works during shifts, but holding the key is not using it. Also worth knowing: Google's own Maps Timeline / Location History tracks your movements through your Google account around the clock, on and off shift — that's Google's feature, nothing to do with DriverX, and you can turn it off in your Google account settings.
Why we track during shifts at all: your trail is part of the same shift record that pays you and defends you — proof of where the truck was, proof of rest stops, and the evidence that answers a roadside or regulator question in your favour. Full detail is in our privacy policy.
We're taking the paperwork off our drivers, one form at a time. Timecards, leave forms, prestart books and fault reports all become a few taps on your phone — recorded properly, the moment they happen.
Your start time, finish time and breaks recorded in DriverX are what the accounts team uses to pay you — from real records, not handwriting and guesswork. And with fatigue penalties having roughly doubled on 1 August 2026, a time-stamped record that matches the law's own counting protects your licence as much as it protects the company.
Maintenance uses the app's fault reports and prestarts to keep the fleet in line with NHVR requirements — so problems get seen and fixed faster, and the truck you drive is safer for it.
You don't need any of this to use the app — but if you're curious about the rules behind it, here it is in plain language.
There's a help section built into the app (tap the ? on any screen), and the DriverX support page covers common questions. For anything else, contact Ryan Stagg directly — call, text or email. No such thing as a silly question during a rollout.