Gearbox is a specialist fleet maintenance system, and it is good at that job. Burgy covers the same maintenance ground and carries the safety paperwork your crews already deal with — SWMS, prestarts, site attendance — in the one system.
Book a demoA dedicated maintenance system handles the workshop well. Services scheduled, faults logged, history kept. Then the site side of the business turns up — the SWMS a council wants before anyone starts, the JSA for the job, the Take 5 before a tricky lift, who signed in at the gate this morning.
None of that lives in a maintenance system. So it goes somewhere else: a second subscription, a shared drive, or the ute glovebox. Two logins, two trainings, and two places to look when a principal contractor asks for evidence.
Burgy was built by a civil business that had exactly this problem. The plant register and the safety paperwork are the same system because on a real job they are the same day.
Gearbox details taken from gearbox.com.au, September 2026.
| Capability | Burgy | Gearbox |
|---|---|---|
| Service scheduling by hours, km or both | Yes, per machine | Yes, hours, km or days |
| Operator prestart app | Yes, with photo evidence | Yes, driver app |
| Failed prestart raises a repair job | Yes, automatically | Fault reports in real time |
| Service kits per interval | Yes, per machine and level | Parts against an asset |
| Attachments tracked as their own assets | Yes, own record and prestart, moves between machines | Linked assets, one parent plus up to seven |
| Stocktake and purchase orders | Purchase orders, no stocktake | Dedicated module |
| NHVAS mass and maintenance compliance | Not covered | Yes |
| Telematics integration | Not covered | Yes |
| SWMS and JSA | Yes, built in | Not covered |
| Take 5 and toolbox meetings | Yes, built in | Not covered |
| Site attendance and sign-in | Yes, built in | Not covered |
| Job and client tracking | Yes, built in | Not covered |
| Worker licences and inductions | Yes, with expiry alerts | Training, medicals, licences |
| Built in Australia | Northern Territory | Australia |
If you run heavy vehicles under NHVAS mass and maintenance accreditation, Gearbox automates those compliance reviews directly. Burgy does not do NHVAS, and no amount of good intentions makes that untrue.
Same for telematics. Gearbox connects to telematics and can pull odometer readings automatically. Burgy has no telematics integration today.
On parts, it is narrower than it looks. Burgy does carry service kits per machine per interval — a 1000-hour kit rolls up the 250 and 500 items so the workshop orders once — and raises purchase orders from them. What it does not do is stocktake. If you run real inventory counts across a store, Gearbox has a module for it and Burgy does not.
If those three are central to how you operate, Gearbox is the better tool and you should keep using it. If your problem is that maintenance and site safety live in different places, that is the gap Burgy was built to close.
The reason you looked at Gearbox in the first place. Service intervals per machine, a countdown every operator can see, and repair jobs that come straight off a failed prestart.
SWMS, JSA, Take 5 and toolbox meetings in the same system as the plant register. One login for the crew, one audit trail when a council or principal contractor asks.
A prestart on the operator's phone, done from the cab in under a minute, with photo evidence attached to whatever failed.
Who was on site, on which job, for how long — the operational layer a maintenance-only system leaves you to run somewhere else.
It depends what you need beyond maintenance. Gearbox is a specialist fleet maintenance and compliance system and it is good at that job. Burgy is the closer fit if your crews also carry site safety — SWMS, JSA, Take 5, toolbox meetings, site attendance and worker licences — because that sits in the same system as the plant register rather than a second subscription.
No. Gearbox lists six modules — Maintenance, Prestart App, Compliance, Employees, Parts & Inventory, and Integrations. Its compliance module covers NHVAS, contractors and compliance reviews, and its employee module covers training, medicals and licences. Safe Work Method Statements, JSAs and site attendance are not part of the product (verified September 2026). Crews that need those run a second system alongside it.
Yes. Plant typically runs on hour-based intervals and light vehicles on kilometres, and both are tracked per machine. Each machine carries a visual countdown so the workshop sees the next service coming before it is overdue, not after.
Yes. Burgy was built by a civil contracting family in the Northern Territory, for Australian conditions and Australian paperwork. That matters when the comparison set includes US-built maintenance platforms that have no concept of a prestart, a SWMS, or a weed-and-seed declaration.
If you run heavy vehicles under NHVAS mass and maintenance accreditation, or your fleet relies on telematics odometer feeds, Gearbox handles those directly and Burgy does not. Gearbox also runs full stocktake across a parts store. Burgy carries service kits per machine and raises purchase orders from them, but it does not do inventory counts.
Service history can be brought across as part of onboarding — machines, intervals and past services — so the new system starts with the record intact rather than from zero. Book a demo and we will walk through what your data looks like.
Comparison last reviewed September 2026. Gearbox is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Burgy. Product details change — check gearbox.com.au for their current offering.
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