The Municipal vehicle pictured above was undergoing a six week goods vehicle inspection ( safety check) for a leasing company as part of a local council contract.

A planned vehicle maintenance system will integrate daily vehicle operations, safety inspection , repairs ,servicing , and vehicle asset management. A VOSA guide to maintaining roadworthiness of Commercial vehicles can be downloaded from the business link website pdf download link

Driver's Daily Inspection

The vehicle driver is often the first one to notice vehicle faults, whether safety defect, performance related or otherwise.
Basic daily checks include a brief walk around the vehicle to check condition of tyres, lights, lubricant levels etc, and completion of a drivers defect report sheet as part of a drivers daily defect reporting system. A copy of drivers defect report should be provided to the transport office.

Many drivers are quite competent to carry out simple repairs such as changing a blown bulb providing the correct part is fitted! On certain occasions we have had to repair vehicle's where the driver has fitted an incorrect bulb to a tail light unit for example, single contact bulb where a twin contact bulb should have been fitted, a very easy mistake , which has then resulted in specialist body equipment electrical failure due to a simple short circuit resulting in a wiring insulation meltdown.

Often known as ' the six week check '.
Vehicle safety inspection frequency is usually defined by the powers that be as part of the terms of the vehicle operators licence.
A safety inspection procedure is designed to provide professional condition monitoring of vehicle safety and roadworthiness together with a vehicle inspection report.
Immediate or scheduled repair may be undertaken following the vehicle safety inspection.
Condition monitoring will help to improve reliability of the vehicle fleet by identifying minor problems before they become major problems and inevitably cause breakdown.
Regular condition monitoring will also influence vehicle asset management and fleet disposal policy.
The annual MoT test is a scheduled safety inspection.
 

Class 5 : Private Passenger Carrying vehicles with more than 13 seats and Ambulances.
Class 7 : Goods vehicles eg Transit Vans over 3000kg up to 3500kg
LGV: Large Goods Vehicles
PCV: Buses and Coaches