vehicle inspetion forms

[Chips be-gone]

Guys, I have one that we all could use for our fleet accounts, but I need help.
I have our school bus barn that has no order in the maintenance of the buses. He ended up next in line after the last head mechanic retired. He called me in to do a chip on one of the buses only because a driver said they got hit.. I got there and inspected the lot and found 5 buses, we started talking and found out he has no end of day inspetion forms for the drivers to work off.

I told him I would see if I can find something he could work off.

Do any of you out there use forms for your customers as give away for your fleet accounts that will have Windshield repair on them...

I looked on the web and could not really find a fleet auto inspection form.
Tire, coolant, oil, W/S. and what ever else they would need in school buses or just fleet auto night inspections...

Good PR for us I would think... Looking out for their safety..

[doctor ding]

They're normally referred to as "cry sheets", a colloquial term that indicates a problem with the vehicle (as in, "something on my vehicle broke! Waah, Waah, Waah!). Who knows why your bus company doesn't use them. Every, and I mean every fleet account I ever had of more than two or three vehicles used them. The usual form is a 5"x7" pad with carbonless-type duplicates and they stay in the vehicle so that the driver can record any defects after each trip. One copy is turned in to the shop, the other copy stays with the pad. When the pad is used up the copies are put into that vehicle's file. It's odd that a school bus company wouldn't have these forms because they are normally inspected at least once yearly by the DOT and usually the inspector(s) spot check by referencing random cry sheets and checking them against the repair log to ensure that defects have been addressed in a timely manner. You might ask one of your other fleet accounts where they get theirs. Larger companies with national or international locations design forms to their personal specifications. Smaller, regional and/or local operators more often use standard forms. It's my personal experience that cry sheets are just about useless re: windshield damge. One of two scenarios usually occurs: either the driver pays no attention whatsoever or else writes up every bug splat, mudball, pigeon dropping and surface pit - and normally misses or chooses to ignore the real damage. And if you think that my assessment of drivers in general is less than positive just ask the average mechanic what his/her opinion of the average driver is! (LOL) In more than twenty years of servicing upward of 150 +/- fleets I can count on the fingers of one hand (and still have a few fingers left over) the number of drivers that could consistently identify damge and report it accurately.

[roadhammer]

Look up J.J.keller. They make all kinds of forms for daily inspection, which the school bus should be supplying to their drivers. Hope that helps you.

[Chips be-gone]

Thank you roadhammer.

I am just helping out a guy that was thrown into this job without knowing what to do.
It was the schools way of doing a budget cut.

[Rsenest]

J.J. Kellers website is http://www.jjkeller.com/online_catalog/ and they have lots of safety forms and supplies.

[Chips be-gone]

Rsenest

Thanks anyway but, If you would have read two posts above you would see the same company listed.

[Rsenest]

Read the two post...just giving the website address...they do have lots of helpful information