Why Do You Need to Carry out Walk Around Inspections?
Carrying out daily (first use) walk around inspections is a legal requirement. Part of these obligations is documenting the checks so you can demonstrate compliance with DVSA requirements.
Beyond the legal requirements, daily inspections are crucial to spotting potentially dangerous and costly defects.
Still Using Paper Vehicle Inspection Sheets?
There’s no reason to still be using paper inspection sheets or vehicle defect cards and there are dozens of reasons why your drivers shouldn’t be using paper sheets to carry out their daily checks.
Here are a few of the main benefits of using digital reporting over paper sheets:
Save money – There are huge savings to be made switching from a paper system to a digital solution like the FleetCheck app. You’re cutting paper and storage costs out, along with time spent collecting and manually entering the information into your system.
Real-time reporting – Receiving real-time notifications of defects and any other driver notes enables you to order parts or book in garage time before the vehicle has come back. Reducing time off-road and putting you in a proactive position.
Time stamping – No one wants to assume they have non-compliant drivers, but with the GPS and time-stamping a digital app gives you there is no room for doubt. You can check exactly when, and how long the checks took to be carried out.
Scaleable – The main problem with manual processes is that they aren’t scalable for the same cost and time investment. FleetCheck Driver is suitable for fleets of any size, and the administration time remains the same.
