Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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54 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2014 technology B rakes, lights and tires are the most common maintenance violations caught at roadside inspections and fixed locations. In theory, drivers should be reporting these and other defects to their fleets before U.S. Department of Transpor- tation officers find them. Part of the problem may be that many drivers still are using paper forms to comply with post-trip (396.11) and pre-trip (396.13) vehicle inspections required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Are these written forms finding their way to the maintenance depart- ment in time to schedule repairs? Are drivers "pencil-whipping" their reports and not doing walk-around inspections? When paper is involved, these questions are difficult to answer. Since the arrival of the Compliance Safety Accountability program, elec- tronic driver vehicle inspection reports have become popular. These simple applications are designed to make it easy and efficient for drivers to note defects and schedule repairs. The result is fewer violations. Electronic vehicle inspections can be deployed one of three ways. in focus: MOBILE COMPUTING Catching defects Electronic driver inspections force accountability, accelerate repairs BY AARON HUFF Zonar's 2020 tablet reads RFID tags placed in zones around the vehicle to verify that drivers complete a walk-around inspection. Innovative Software Engineering offers an electronic DVIR application for Windows devices from Honeywell (below). ISE plans an Android version of its electronic DVIR (right).