FleetCheck is giving clients access to a wide range of online van fleet driver safety tools in a new partnership with National Highways.
Driver information cards and online modules created by National Highways’ Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team are being added to the FleetCheck Driver app, enabling fleets to easily disseminate the information to their drivers.
Peter Golding, managing director at FleetCheck, explained: “These resources enable van operators to provide key advice and information to their drivers in an easy-to-understand format. They help to promote essential safety guidelines, reduce costs, improve operating conditions, and ensure vehicles are safe and legal – all while supporting driver wellbeing.
“To see which employees have seen and understood each section, all app users need to do is view the read receipts to confirm they’ve engaged with and understood the content. It adds a valuable layer to their compliance tracking.”
Launched in 2017, FleetCheck’s Driver app is designed to streamline vehicle inspection processes for smaller fleets, removing the need for manual paper trails while also providing additional features such as fit to drive declarations, fuel purchase details and incident reporting. Since its introduction, it’s been used by fleets totalling almost 260,000 vehicles and related assets to carry out over 28 million inspections.
Golding said: “The new enhancements we’ve made here are very much in line with the best practice ethos that is at the heart of the Driver app, helping to improve operating conditions, ensure safe and legal vehicles, and promote driver wellbeing at all times. We expect take-up among our van operator users to be high.
“As a business, we have a longstanding relationship with National Highways and are pleased to be able to integrate their content into our products in this manner. It’s all about trying to make fleet operations as safe as possible for all.”
