Multi-Award-Winning CheckedSafe offers a complete digital cloud solutions package to fleet management across commercial fleet transport, public and private transport, emergency services and plant-hire vehicles. This effectively allows companies to monitor vehicle compliance across every vehicle in the UK and even while abroad. It costs as little as £1 per vehicle per week for a cost-effective paperless reporting system.
These multiple award-winning solutions have entirely digitised vehicle compliance, significantly streamlining the daily operations of both fleet drivers and management. Bus, HGV, Van, Car, Grey Fleet, Plant & Machinery (any commercial vehicle) drivers can download a handy app onto their mobile devices to use tailor-made vehicle checklists. The app even functions whilst in remote areas with no phone signals to enable checks to be completed on the move. This flexible, handy app is so easy to use: just check and go! The main office then receives each report allowing for a complete audit trail across the company. This seamless system makes sure that vehicles are Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVSA) compliant and automatically generates scheduling slots for vehicle ad-hoc repair as well as routine MOTs and servicing.
We caught up with Director & Co-Founder, Gary Hawthorne, to find out how CheckedSafe has fared over 2024, “We expanded our portfolio of compliance tools to include Driver Licencing Checks and GB Domestic Hours modules – these have all been successfully completed and launched. We are delighted to say that the GB Domestic Hours App is a market-first in the UK and was the result of intensive R&D. We created the algorithm around a complex set of rules that are currently managed by paper systems only.
“CheckedSafe is a compliance tech company co-created by Darran Harris and myself ten years ago. Darran has over 20 years’ industry expertise as a Litigation Solicitor, specialising in road traffic issues and has worked as a solicitor with major logistics companies, successfully representing them at Public Enquiries. I have over 30 years as a Transport Professional, from, initially Driver, Manager, TFGM (was GMPTE), Central Government Owner/Operator and as a DVSA Accredited Earned Recognition Auditor.
“Our unique joint partnership has thrived in the commercial fleet community, as we know our product inside out and why it’s required. We are happy to collaborate with other ‘professional companies’ and prefer to do so, rather than try to compete with established solutions. In fact, new tech collaboration with APIs is much easier now, so bringing together expert areas is a far better model than trying to split the atom alone.”
Commercial fleet compliance has historically remained heavily paper-based but the trend is now moving towards technology, especially with increased Grey Fleet ownership. CheckedSafe are the go-to experts in this domain and support private employees and whole fleets manage compliance, as Gary continues, “Moving people from paper to technology ensures huge savings in time, paper and storage – all of which impact the environment. You can now effectively manage a 100-strong vehicle fleet from your mobile phone, if you so wish (though a laptop is advisable, with secure back-office options). Therefore, there really is no need to store copious boxes of reports plus everything is received in ‘Realtime’ so any defects/issues can be resolved quickly. This reduces overall long-term costs and downtime as better repair planning can be achieved.”
“We are professionals in our respective industry not salespeople or tech people. We both have a passion for compliance facilitating change for the better. As an ex-Operator, I fully understand the issues at hand and as an Accredited Auditor, I know the challenges companies face daily. This has allowed us through CheckedSafe to develop our product base from an expert knowledge base. After designing our ideas on paper, we hand it over to our Tech Wizards to digitise those concepts. This ‘old school’ format allows us to really thrash out the ideas on paper first before committing to the tech stage.”
Looking ahead to next year and beyond, CheckedSafe is focused on building further on this year’s product line by tweaking existing products, providing add-ons to new products and back links to other areas of the platform. With growing client demand, CheckedSafe is looking forward to future collaborations.
“We have a very exciting project for early 2025 but are keeping tight-lipped for now. It will be a very exciting addition to our existing product portfolio. We take great pride in our customer-centric focus: developing off the basis of customer feedback. All requests are evaluated and then we develop and launch that feature for the whole CheckedSafe client base. We do not charge for this as we believe in sharing good practice and one idea may actually benefit many others.”
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