STREAM’s driver daily walkaround check app not only makes it easy for drivers to stay safe and compliant by completing their daily vehicle checks, but also follows defects reported through to resolution.
This means that the app and back-office system work together to give you a rounded vehicle maintenance management solution.
Easily manage vehicle compliance and maintenance, to keep all your vehicles roadworthy, and minimise the risk of disruption caused by unexpected breakdowns. STREAM’s Driver Daily Walkaround Check App negates the need to worry about compliance and auditing – as every check is recorded, and every defect is reported and resolved.
How does the driver daily walkaround check app work?
STREAM’s App and back-office system work together to help drivers complete their daily vehicle checks more efficiently and ensure you can manage defects and vehicle maintenance through to resolution.
Check
Drivers go through each point on the list, checking the corresponding area of the vehicle, and ticking every check in the app, as they go.
Where problems are found, the driver records details of any issues, with space for written notes and photographs.
You can be assured that drivers are completing their checks properly: precise timings and GPS location are recorded to confirm that checks are completed where and when they should be.
Email notifications can be sent to your back-office staff if a driver has left without completing the check, or has completed the check implausibly fast
You can also set a required level for second checks, which require a predetermined number of checks, for example, 10%, will be randomly selected to be signed off or verified by someone else (either by a maintenance team member or by another driver).
If a check is assigned to have a second check, the daily walkaround check cannot be marked as complete until a second user has logged in and signed off or verified it.
Report
There is also space for the driver to record to whom they reported a defect or issue, so you always have a clear chain of communication.
Each defect or issue can also be categorised and ranked according to urgency so that your maintenance team are able to ‘triage’ each vehicle:
- Is the vehicle usable? Maintenance can check and sign off some issues as safe to drive, to be fixed at a later date (for example, for a small crack in the windscreen)
- If not, can the issue be resolved quickly? Some issues require a simple ‘quick fix’ and can still be out on the road on time (for example, a flat type)
- If not, how long will it take to resolve? Maintenance can sign the vehicle out of action and add an expected resolution date and time.
If a vehicle is marked as having an issue that makes it unusable, back-office staff can receive a notification that it is ‘unavailable’, and steps can be immediately taken to minimise disruption, whether that involves rearranging jobs or locating a replacement vehicle.
Drivers can mark in the App if there are no additional issues at the end of a shift or at handover to the next driver.
Record
Records of every check are securely stored electronically for a minimum of 15-months in line with DVSA regulations.
Keeping records of your walkaround checks can be a time-consuming and paper-heavy process.
It is easy to accidentally lose or destroy a paper record, but by storing records of your driver’s walkaround checks electronically, you are can be safe in the knowledge that the checks are being completed and can be accessed whenever you need them.
Resolve
The maintenance team can upload details on the progress of issue resolution, including photographs, notes, and documents tracking repairs through the system, and then mark the issue as resolved.
Our paperless daily walkaround check App can be used independently from STREAM’s mobile driver app for delivery, logistics and transport management software – or integrated to provide a complete system for managing your deliveries, vehicles and orders.