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Stop Lapsed Maintenance From Stopping Your Trucks

The maintenance page blocks dispatch for lapsed statutory items instead of just warning you.

Frachta's fleet maintenance page tracks the service plan for every vehicle in your fleet, so you always know what inspection, oil change or statutory check is due and when, without chasing paper folders or spreadsheets scattered across depots.

Open /fleet/maintenance and pick a vehicle to see its service plan laid out by interval. Each truck or trailer can run its own schedule: if one unit works harder or has a different manufacturer recommendation, you set a per-asset override instead of forcing every vehicle onto one generic timetable. You can also add custom items for anything specific to that asset, such as a non-standard part or a company policy check that isn't a legal requirement.

Statutory items work differently from the rest. Where a custom or manufacturer item might simply show a warning, a statutory item that lapses blocks dispatch for that vehicle outright. That means a driver can't be sent out with an expired roadworthiness certificate or mandatory inspection, because the system won't let the job go ahead until the item is renewed and logged.

Trailers are tracked too, but not in isolation. A coupled trailer accrues kilometres from the truck that is pulling it, so its service intervals move forward with the actual work it does on the road rather than sitting idle on a fixed calendar date that has nothing to do with real usage.

This setup saves you from the moment a vehicle turns up at a border or a customer site with a lapsed certificate nobody noticed, or a trailer that's covered far more kilometres than its paperwork suggests because nobody was tracking it against the truck hauling it.

Source: Frachta

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