Vehicle Maintenance

The Essential Guide to Maintaining Your Vehicle Log Book

9 Steps to Create an Effective Equipment Maintenance Log in 2024 (With FREE Template)

This powerful tool serves as a comprehensive record-keeping system that captures crucial maintenance information, tracks equipment history, and facilitates proactive maintenance planning.

How to Maintain a Vehicle Maintenance Log?

Are you struggling to keep track of the repair and maintenance of your fleet vehicles? A vehicle maintenance log is an essential tool for your aid in fleet maintenance and management. Traditionally, car maintenance logs were recorded manually in logbooks or spreadsheets.

Get Ready for DOT Inspection Week in the US: Tips for a Successful Inspection

DOT Inspection Week is an important time for commercial vehicle operators in the US, as they are subject to strict regulations and inspections to ensure safety on the roads. This blog provides tips and tricks to help prepare for a successful DOT inspection, and covers key areas such as vehicle maintenance, proper documentation, and driver readiness.

A Comprehensive Guide on Understanding Fleet Fuel Efficiency

Improving Vehicle Maintenance: How to Capitalize OEM Schedules

Capitalizing OEM schedules can be extremely beneficial - find out here why it is important, what the limitations are, and how to use it to maximize your fleet's performance. Staying up to date with appropriate Oem Schedules helps maintain and keep your vehicles running smoothly.

How Fleet Management Tools Can Help Small Businesses Grow

Do you have a fleet of vehicles that help your small business run efficiently? Managing fleet operations can be a complex process, from scheduling and maintenance to tracking driver safety. For many small business owners, successfully managing fleets can be a challenging task with limited resources. However, by implementing the right tools such as fleet management technology, small businesses can take their operations to the next level.

20 Things to check while performing a Vehicle Inspection in 2024

Keep your commercial vehicles running smoothly with this step-by-step guide. Here’s a pre-trip inspection list for daily, monthly, and annual vehicle inspections. Do thorough vehicle checkups with this convenient list – learn what can get inspected from brakes and tire inspection to suspension, headlights, mirrors, seatbelt, clutch, steering, defrosters and heating, horns, windshield and wipers, airbags, and fluid levels! You can also download free daily, monthly and annual vehicle inspection checklists from our Fleet vehicle maintenance software for small business, Simply Fleet.

How Failing to Meet FMCSA and DOT Regulations Can Impact Your Fleet

Learn about the various grounds for non-compliance with FMCSA rules such as missing DVIR form, compromise on safety standards, failure to repair vehicle defects, absence of auto insurance, long driver work hours, etc. Understand the impact of breaking the DOT rules like penalties, fines, Out of Service costs, suspension of license, higher insurance, and lower CSA score.