Vehicle pre-start
Records vehicle pre-start checks, identified defects and hazards, corrective actions, supporting evidence and authorised sign-off. A live form your crew fills on their phones, not a Word template you retype on every site.
- Vehicle pre-start checks
- Identified defects
- Hazards
- Corrective actions
- Supporting evidence
- Authorised sign-off
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When you need this form
Patrol cars, response vehicles and site utes go out every shift, often overnight and often driven by whoever is rostered. A pre-start check catches the things that end shifts: bald tyres, dead beacons, low fluids, a cracked windscreen, an expired registration. Vehicles are workplaces, so the operator carries a duty to keep them roadworthy and safe to drive.
Defect capture is where paper books fail, because the book lives in a glovebox nobody reads. A live check sends the defect to the fleet manager the moment it is raised, with a photo, linked to the driver and the odometer. That history matters after a collision or an insurance claim.
What good looks like
- Driver, vehicle registration, odometer and shift start time captured together.
- Tyres, lights, beacons and windscreen checked individually, not as one tick.
- Fluids, brakes and warning lights recorded before the vehicle leaves the yard.
- Existing damage photographed each shift to separate new damage from old.
- Defects raised with severity, and a decision on whether the vehicle runs.
Vehicle pre-start, answered
Is this a PDF or Word template?
Neither. It is a live form: your crew opens it on their phones, ticks it through, attaches photos and signs on the glass. Every submission is timestamped, GPS-pinned and stored as proof.
What should a vehicle pre-start check include?
Tyres and pressures, lights and beacons, windscreen and mirrors, fluids and warning lights, brakes, horn, first aid and fire equipment, registration currency, plus any damage and the odometer reading.
Who is responsible for vehicle pre-start checks?
The driver completes the check before the shift, and the operator is responsible for acting on the defects raised. Both parts need recording, because an unactioned defect is worse than none.
Can I buy just this one form?
It comes with the plan: this form, the other 276 in the library and Eaco AI for $29 a month, GST included. Cancel anytime.