Why audit-ready logbooks matter

Dealerships that hold a dealer plate (Händlerkennzeichen, or 06-plate) or a short-term plate (Kurzzeitkennzeichen, or W-plate) in Germany are expected to keep a record of every trip made under that plate — the digital equivalent of the paper Fahrtenbuch, or logbook. If the vehicle registration authority (Zulassungsstelle) or a tax authority asks to see it, an incomplete or illegible logbook can turn a routine check into a real problem.

The problem with paper logbooks

A paper Fahrtenbuch lives in a glove box. Entries get written after the fact, if at all, and pulling together months of handwritten pages into something a reviewer can actually read takes real time. Multiply that across several plates and several branches, and preparing for an audit becomes a project of its own.

What an audit export needs to show

An audit export — a monthly PDF report formatted for regulatory inspection — needs to account for every log entry: one recorded use of a dealer plate, including who drove it, which vehicle, when the trip started and ended, and where it went. Taken together, the log entries for a plate form its logbook: the ordered record regulators expect to see.

How Log06 addresses it

Log06 replaces the paper process with a mobile trip-logging wizard: a driver picks the plate, selects or scans in the vehicle, and starts the trip. Log06 captures the start and end location automatically and stores the trip as an immutable log entry — once created, it isn’t deleted, only corrected with a visible update. At the end of the month, an owner or branch manager generates the audit export directly from the web dashboard, with a full logbook per plate.

The takeaway

An audit-ready logbook isn’t about extra paperwork — it’s about being able to produce, in minutes, exactly the record an inspector expects. That’s the gap Log06’s guided mobile logging and monthly audit export are built to close.