About
Cheaper fuel, less faff
Fuel is the biggest cost on the road, and finding the cheapest servo shouldn't mean juggling three apps full of ads. WayBeacon puts live prices, truck rest areas and road hazards on one clean map: free, no signup needed to look, no ads, and nothing about you sold to anyone.
We started with truck drivers because they feel every cent the hardest and no one built them a proper tool: diesel-first pricing, AdBlue and truck-friendly filters, rest areas you can actually fit a rig into, and a fatigue break planner. But the core, the cheapest fuel near you or along your route, works for anyone with a tank to fill.
Where the data comes from
Every layer in WayBeacon is published by somebody else, mostly a state road authority. This is the whole register. A dash means we have nothing there yet; we would rather show the hole than imply cover we haven't got.
| Where | Fuel prices | Rest areas | Road hazards | Low bridges | Crash risk | Layers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSWNew South Wales | FuelCheck | Transport for NSW | Live Traffic NSW | Transport for NSW | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 4/5 |
| VICVictoria | Servo Saver | RADAR (federal) | RADAR (Victorian roadworks) | Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet. | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 3/5 |
| QLDQueensland | Fuel Prices QLD | QLD TMR | QLDTraffic | QLD TMR | QLD TMR | 5/5 |
| SASouth Australia | SA FPIS | RADAR (federal) | TrafficSA | Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet. | DIT South Australia | 4/5 |
| WAWestern Australia | FuelWatch | Main Roads WA | Main Roads WA | OpenStreetMap | CrashMap | 5/5 |
| TASTasmania | FuelCheck | RADAR (federal) | Tasmanian State Growth | State Growth | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 4/5 |
| NTNorthern Territory | MyFuel NT | RADAR (federal) | NT Road Report | Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet. | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 3/5 |
| ACTAustralian Capital Territory | FuelCheck | Not covered. Not in any rest-area dataset we hold. | ACT temporary road closures | Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet. | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 2/5 |
| NZNew Zealand | Not covered. No per-station feed exists in New Zealand. We show the national weekly average instead of implying prices we cannot get. | OpenStreetMap | NZTA Highway Information | Not covered. We hold New Zealand 50MAX weight restrictions, which are a limit on mass rather than on height. | Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet. | 2/5 |
NSW
4/5 layersNew South Wales
- Fuel prices
- FuelCheck
- Rest areas
- Transport for NSW
- Road hazards
- Live Traffic NSW
- Low bridges
- Transport for NSW
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
VIC
3/5 layersVictoria
- Fuel prices
- Servo Saver
- Rest areas
- RADAR (federal)
- Road hazards
- RADAR (Victorian roadworks)
- Low bridges
- Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet.
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
QLD
5/5 layersQueensland
- Fuel prices
- Fuel Prices QLD
- Rest areas
- QLD TMR
- Road hazards
- QLDTraffic
- Low bridges
- QLD TMR
- Crash risk
- QLD TMR
SA
4/5 layersSouth Australia
- Fuel prices
- SA FPIS
- Rest areas
- RADAR (federal)
- Road hazards
- TrafficSA
- Low bridges
- Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet.
- Crash risk
- DIT South Australia
WA
5/5 layersWestern Australia
- Fuel prices
- FuelWatch
- Rest areas
- Main Roads WA
- Road hazards
- Main Roads WA
- Low bridges
- OpenStreetMap
- Crash risk
- CrashMap
TAS
4/5 layersTasmania
- Fuel prices
- FuelCheck
- Rest areas
- RADAR (federal)
- Road hazards
- Tasmanian State Growth
- Low bridges
- State Growth
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
NT
3/5 layersNorthern Territory
- Fuel prices
- MyFuel NT
- Rest areas
- RADAR (federal)
- Road hazards
- NT Road Report
- Low bridges
- Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet.
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
ACT
2/5 layersAustralian Capital Territory
- Fuel prices
- FuelCheck
- Rest areas
- Not covered. Not in any rest-area dataset we hold.
- Road hazards
- ACT temporary road closures
- Low bridges
- Not covered. No clearance dataset connected yet.
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
NZ
2/5 layersNew Zealand
- Fuel prices
- Not covered. No per-station feed exists in New Zealand. We show the national weekly average instead of implying prices we cannot get.
- Rest areas
- OpenStreetMap
- Road hazards
- NZTA Highway Information
- Low bridges
- Not covered. We hold New Zealand 50MAX weight restrictions, which are a limit on mass rather than on height.
- Crash risk
- Not covered. No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
Each of these has a page of its own, with the licence spelled out and what it lets you do: the full data source index.
What we haven't got
- Fuel prices
NZ: No per-station feed exists in New Zealand. We show the national weekly average instead of implying prices we cannot get.
- Rest areas
ACT: Not in any rest-area dataset we hold.
- Low bridges
VIC, SA, NT, ACT: No clearance dataset connected yet.
NZ: We hold New Zealand 50MAX weight restrictions, which are a limit on mass rather than on height.
- Crash risk
NSW, VIC, TAS, NT, ACT, NZ: No crash or black-spot dataset connected yet.
Who publishes it
- Fuel prices
- NSW Government FuelCheck
One feed covers three jurisdictions: Tasmanian sites are in the same API behind a state filter.
Service Victoria Servo Saver · CC BY 4.0Victorian prices are published a day behind by design, so a Victorian price is yesterday's.
Department of Treasury and Finance (Northern Territory Government), MyFuel NT · CC BY 4.0Every outlet in the Territory's mandatory price-reporting scheme, including Low Aromatic Fuel, which in many remote communities is the only unleaded sold.
- Fuel price benchmarks
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment · CC BY 4.0
A national weekly average, not a per-station price. New Zealand has no per-station feed to read.
- Rest areas
- Transport for NSW · CC BY 4.0Main Roads Western Australia · CC BY 4.0Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
The national rest-area dataset, requested only for the states no state feed covers.
OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL - Road hazards
- Live Traffic NSW · CC BY 4.0Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency · CC BY 4.0
Road events and area warnings. Only events NZTA marks Active are shown, so finished and not-yet-started works stay off the map.
QLDTraffic · CC BY 4.0 AUNorthern Territory Government · CC BY 4.0Obstructions, flooding and the Territory's axle-mass, GVM and 4WD limits: the restrictions that decide whether a heavy vehicle gets through.
SA Department for Infrastructure and Transport · CC BY 4.0Roadworks and incidents. Only works currently in effect are shown, so a job starting next month stays off the map.
ACT Government · CC BY 4.0Temporary road closures published by Transport Canberra and City Services.
Tasmanian Department of State Growth · CC BY 4.0State-road works. Only works currently in effect are shown, so a job starting next month stays off the map.
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development · CC BY 4.0Victorian road closures and works, via the federal harmonised layer that re-publishes VicRoads' own feeds. Only works in effect are shown. Victoria's direct API needs a registered key; we will move to it when one is granted.
- Low bridges
- Transport for NSW · CC BY 4.0OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Signposted maxheight on vehicle ways, parsed conservatively: an unreadable value is dropped, never coerced to a number, and every height is rounded DOWN.
- Crash risk and black spots
- Main Roads Western Australia · CC BY 3.0 AU
Federal and state black spots, plus the road stretches Main Roads rates highest for crash risk.
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads · CC BY 4.0Crash locations from 2019 on, counted where you are rather than stored.
- EV chargers
- Open Charge Map
Openly-licensed records only.
- Toilets, water, dump points and truck stops
- OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Toilets, drinking water, dump points, truck parking, truck wash and repair.
- Car parks
We're an independent app and not affiliated with or endorsed by any government body. Prices can lag or be wrong, so always check the board at the bowser.