How do you ensure your vehicles are correctly maintained and safe at all times? The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness from VOSA and the Industry Best Practice for PCV’s issued by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers assists operators to achieve the required standards.

One way to prove you meet the standards is to introduce a nil-defect reporting system for both drivers and maintenance staff to follow. Transport Stationery Services (TSS) produces both drivers daily check pads and vehicle safety inspection sheet pads to aid driving and maintenance staff meet the standards.

Each drivers daily check pad comes with 50 self-carbonated and uniquely numbered pages in duplicate or triplicate formats which allows drivers to report any defects to the depot and to get the defects repaired ensuring a defective vehicle is not used in service or to report nil defects exist on the vehicle.

The formats of the drivers daily check pads allow for both in-house or external repair and maintenance providers. One-page is retained in the pad as the driver’s copy and the others are handed to the traffic office, the first copy is handed to either the in-house repair workshop or the external maintenance contractor with the second copy retained in the traffic office to ensure a defective vehicle is not allocated for service.

The vehicle safety inspection pads are designed to be used for the preventative maintenance inspections and to ensure that vehicles meet annual test standards every time they are inspected and prior to release for service.