Maintenance logbook
A digital maintenance logbook for every machine
A digital maintenance logbook brings together, for every machine, a dated history of its jobs, reports and meter readings. In Trackary it fills itself in: every job entered by a technician is attached to the machine's record. In France, the Labour Code requires a maintenance logbook for lifting equipment (article R4323-19).
Trackary keeps the history of jobs and reports for every excavator, MEWP or road-rail vehicle. You find what was done, when and by whom.
Maintenance logbook: what the regulations say
In France, for lifting equipment, the French Labour Code (Code du travail) requires a maintenance logbook to be kept (article R4323-19). It's used to record servicing and maintenance operations on the equipment. For construction equipment generally, a maintenance history is also useful in the event of resale, a dispute or an inspection.
The exact requirements depend on the machine and the regulations that apply. Check what applies to your fleet with your inspection body or your adviser.
The limits of a paper logbook
A paper logbook often stays in the cab or at the office. It gets dirty, gets lost, or isn't filled in after an emergency job. To find out what was done on an excavator eight months ago, you have to find the right logbook and read it page by page.
A digital maintenance logbook solves these problems. Information is entered at the time of the job and stays accessible from the office and from the field.
A paper logbook also can't be shared. If the machine is on a site 200 kilometres away, the office has no access to it. And if a mechanic leaves, part of the history often leaves with them.
What's in the maintenance logbook in Trackary
Every job entered by a technician is attached to the machine's record. The logbook builds itself up as work happens, with no re-keying.
From the web, the fleet manager opens a machine's record and browses its history. They see past jobs, recurring breakdowns and how the hour meter has moved. These details help decide between a major repair and a replacement.
- Job history per machine, by date
- Job reports available to view
- Hour meter readings
- Faults reported and how they were resolved
- Dates of inspections tracked: VGP, EQ, RFN
An excavator's maintenance history: an example
A road-rail excavator comes back from a site with a hydraulic leak. The mechanic opens the machine's record on their phone. They see the most recent jobs, the last hour meter reading and any faults still open.
They carry out the repair, record the meter reading and write up their report. The report is added to the history. The fleet manager reviews it from the web the same day.
If the same leak comes back three months later, the history shows it straight away. The mechanic knows what's already been tried and can get to the right diagnosis faster.
What Trackary does, and what it doesn't do
Trackary gives you a structured, searchable maintenance history for every machine. It helps you keep maintenance information up to date.
Trackary does not, on its own, guarantee that your maintenance logbook is regulatorily compliant. Its content depends on what your teams enter. The tool does not carry out VGP inspections, does not certify that machines are compliant, and does not replace the operator's responsibility.
Trackary is quote-based, after a 30-minute video demo, with no commitment. A 30-minute video demo lets you see the maintenance logbook applied to your machines.