Fleetmatics has partnered with Lancashire-based company CheckedSafe to offer its digital fleet compliance app to current and future customers.

CheckedSafe's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) vehicle compliance app digitises the vehicle defect card by allowing commercial vehicle drivers to complete a driver daily walk around check from their smartphone. The data is recorded into a central database, enabling the compliance manager to verify that the walk around check has been done. Historically, all checks were paper-based, which can be time consuming, costly and unreliable.

"With pressures mounting on fleet managers, it's vital to create ways that make it easier for drivers to play their role in the safety and compliance process," said Guy Fletcher, product manager of Fleetmatics. "By partnering with CheckedSafe, our customers will now be able to monitor all daily checks at the click of a button, and will have added insights into where the checks were carried out, how long they took, and what, if any, defects were identified."

Since 1995, all heavy goods vehicles (HGV) and public service vehicles (PSV) in the UK require a daily walk around check prior to service. Fleetmatics' partnership with CheckedSafe offers its current and future customers a solution that helps them to be fully compliant with all current regulations. The solution works on smartphones or tablets and can be integrated into other internet-enabled devices.

"With complementary technology solutions and customers, partnering with Fleetmatics is a natural fit for us," said Darran Harris, director at CheckedSafe. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to offer Fleetmatics customers our simple and effective solution to help eradicate the issue of either non-compliance or partial compliance with the legislation."