Truckcom lets you manage your vehicle maintenance and inspections from within the system. You can plan inspections and MOTs, show maintenance activities in diary form, and also link defect reports with maintenance orders to close the loop. Maintenance paperwork can also be scanned into the system for a complete roadworthiness record in one place.

As with all parts of the system, you can pick and choose which parts you use. Some operators choose electronic defect and check reports but leave their maintenance management activities as they are – others will choose to link everything together in Truckcom. Because Truckcom is an open system (with email facilities for defects and check reports) it can be easily linked in with other working practices.

Our maintenance diary view (as shown in the screenshot above) is a good example of the way Truckcom has evolved from the real-life experience of operators. In the early years of Truckcom development, we would often arrive at an operator’s premises and see a calendar or whiteboard on the wall which shows maintenance activities in this sort of form (vehicles down the side, weeks or months along the top). So we decided to put an electronic equivalent together, and this now works in a similar way to the old methods, but in a far more easy and reliable way.