Whip Around is built around the vehicle inspection and the workshop that fixes what it finds. Burgy does that too, and adds the rest of a contractor's day: the SWMS your crew signs, who is rostered where, their hours, and the parts ordered before the service is due.
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Last reviewed 21 October 2026
Whip Around is a strong fleet inspection and maintenance app. Drivers do their inspection on the phone, defects become work orders, and the workshop, parts store, fuel cards and telematics all feed in. Its compliance pages are written around US DOT inspection rules, which tells you who it was built for first.
Contractors running plant on Australian sites need the inspection too, but it is one part of the day. The crew also need a SWMS signed before they start, someone needs to know who is on which job, the hours need to reach payroll, and the 500 hour service kit needs to be ordered before the excavator hits 500.
Burgy was built by a Northern Territory civil business for that whole day. If your fleet is mostly trucks on the road and telematics is what you lean on, Whip Around may suit you better, and we'll say so below.
Whip Around details taken from whiparound.com, 21 October 2026. “Not described” means we could not find it on their site, not that it cannot be done.
| Capability | Burgy | Whip Around |
|---|---|---|
| Prestarts and inspections | Per machine, photo on failed items, attachment checks included | Customisable inspections, template library, photos, e-signature |
| Failed check raises a repair job | Yes, automatically | Yes, defects become work orders |
| AI review of inspection photos | Not covered | Yes, AI flags defects |
| Preventive maintenance | Hours, km or both, 250 to 4000hr, per machine | By distance, hours run or time in service |
| Telematics integrations | Not covered | Yes, 25+ providers incl. Geotab, Samsara, Motive |
| Parts inventory with stock levels | Partial: parts lists, kits and groups, no stock levels | Yes, stock drops as parts go on work orders |
| Service parts kits per interval | Yes, per machine, bigger services include smaller | Not described |
| Purchase orders emailed to suppliers | Yes, from the kit or repair job, as a PDF | Not described |
| Oil sampling and lab labels | Yes, per compartment, labels printed | Not described |
| Attachments | Own assets, swapped on site, own prestart | Any asset type; attachment swaps not described |
| Fuel | Fuel register per machine | Fuel tracking, Coast and WEX fuel cards |
| SWMS, JSA, Take 5 and toolbox meetings | Yes, built in, with signatures | Not described |
| Crew timesheets and rostering | Clock on/off, timesheets, rostering | Shop labour; crew timesheets not described |
| Licence and ticket expiry alerts | Yes | Yes, driver document expiry alerts |
| Accounting | Xero invoicing | Not described; open API available |
Has it Partly Not covered or not found
Telematics. Whip Around connects to more than 25 telematics providers, including Geotab, Samsara, Motive and Verizon Connect, so maintenance can follow real engine hours and distance. Burgy relies on operators' readings at the prestart and clock off.
Parts store. Whip Around keeps parts stock, and parts used on a work order come off the inventory. Burgy has parts lists, kits and purchase orders, but no stock levels.
Fuel cards and AI photos. Whip Around links to Coast and WEX fuel cards, and uses AI to flag defects in inspection photos. Burgy has a fuel register per machine and no photo AI.
The workshop as a business. Whip Around's shop management covers labour, approvals and billing for the workshop itself. If you run a fleet workshop that bills its work, that matters.
Where Burgy wins is everything around the machine on an Australian site: SWMS, JSA and Take 5 out of the box, crews rostered and their hours turned into timesheets, service parts kits that become a purchase order, oil sample labels, and attachments tracked as their own assets.
Whip Around is strong on inspections, telematics and the parts store. Burgy is built so the site and workshop record keeping happens as the crew works.
Whip Around's compliance is built around US DOT inspections, with no SWMS or JSA.
SWMS, JSA, Take 5 and toolbox meetings as real documents, filled in from your safety library. Crews sign on their phone, against the job.
Whip Around tracks parts stock, but purchase orders and service kits weren't described.
Each machine has its own checklist and parts kit for every service level. Raise the purchase order from the kit and email it to your supplier.
Whip Around tracks workshop labour; crew timesheets weren't described.
Roster people onto jobs with a machine for each shift. Clocking on and off builds the timesheet and updates the machine's hours.
Both turn a failed check into repair work. Burgy also checks the attachments that are fitted.
A failed prestart item, with its photo, becomes a repair job against the machine. Attachments' checks run inside the machine's prestart.
It depends what you need beyond inspections. If your fleet is mostly trucks and vehicles, and telematics, fuel cards and a stocked parts store are the heart of it, Whip Around does those well. If you are a contractor running crews and plant on Australian sites, and you need SWMS, JSA and Take 5, crew timesheets and services with parts kits in the same system, Burgy is the closer fit.
When we checked whiparound.com in October 2026, SWMS, JSA, Take 5, toolbox meetings and chemical registers were not described. Its compliance pages are built around US DOT inspection rules. Burgy ships SWMS, JSA, Take 5 and toolbox meetings as Australian documents with digital signatures.
No. Burgy takes hours and km from operators: the prestart reading and clocking off a job both update the machine, and the service countdown moves with them. If you rely on GPS or engine data feeding straight into maintenance, Whip Around's telematics integrations are a real point in its favour.
Yes. Raise a purchase order from a machine's service parts kit or a repair job, and email it to the supplier as a PDF with your logo. Mark it received when the parts arrive and the service's parts show as arrived. Purchase orders were not described on Whip Around's maintenance page when we checked.
Yes. Crews clock on and off against a job on their phone, and that builds the timesheet. You can roster people onto jobs with a machine for each shift and export the week to CSV for payroll. Whip Around's shop management tracks workshop labour; crew timesheets were not described.
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Whip Around pages checked on 21 October 2026:
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