How the Safe Freight Program works
The Safe Freight Program (SFP) is an evidence layer for Australian heavy vehicle transport. It records who asserted, confirmed or reported each fact about a driver or vehicle — when, and by what method — and shows the resulting standing to the people checking at the gate.
The check at the gate
Every participating driver and vehicle has an SFP code. It can be typed in, or carried as a QR code and scanned.
At the gate, scan the code or type it — or enter a vehicle's registration plate. The public check needs no login.
Standing resolves live, at the moment of the check — what was checked, when, and by what method.
What a result means — and what it doesn't
Standing is program-relative: it describes a state within the Safe Freight Program only. It is always dated, and it always shows the method behind each item it reflects.
A standing is never a certification, approval, clearance or licence of anyone or anything, never a statement that a law has been complied with, and never a statement of fitness for any duty or purpose.
SFP informs decisions; it never makes them. Entry to a site is always the site's own decision, made under its own duties. Responsibility for the truth of an asserted or self-reported fact stays with the party who asserted or reported it — SFP attests to what its records show and to how each entry came to be recorded.
An amber standing — for a driver or a vehicle — means a step not yet completed. It is never an adverse finding. And a check that returns no result means only that no record is displayed: it is not a statement that no record exists, and it is not adverse information about any person.
What a check shows
Checking a driver
The public check shows participation, the SFP code, and dated standing. No driver's name appears on any SFP surface that does not require a login.
Signed-in site operators see the fuller report: the driver's name and code, the record's standing, and its current carrier associations — each with the carrier's name, its state, and a plain-language reason.
What that view never shows: licence numbers, ended associations, or anyone's work history. It shows current standing, not relationship history.
Checking a vehicle
A vehicle result shows the vehicle's participation and its credentials — each with its current state, its dates, and the method behind it, such as an inspection recorded at an authorised inspection site.
A vehicle check answers one question: this vehicle's current standing in the program, item by item, dated.
The participants
Drivers own their record
A driver claims their record, confirms or ends carrier associations, and controls its visibility. Confirmed standing arises from the driver's own actions — it is never granted by a carrier or by SFP. Your Driver Passport →
Carriers assert
A carrier records that a driver works with them — and the vehicles it operates — and invites the driver to claim their record. For carriers →
Authorised inspection sites record
Inspection results are recorded against vehicles by authorised inspection sites, entering the record with their date and method like every other fact.
Site operators check
At the gate, a site operator gets a dated, on-the-record answer in seconds. For site operators →
Built as evidence
Every entry on the platform carries its provenance: who recorded it, when, and by what method. Those records may assist duty-holders in evidencing the discharge of their own duties — they never discharge them.
For site operators, carriers, and inspection partners.