DVIR
- What a year of daily checks and defect admin costs
- 52,612
- Units on the check round
- 29
- Checks a year across the fleet
- 7,540
Every figure this worksheet prints is arithmetic on the vehicles you enter, and on nothing else: nothing is imported and nothing is assumed about your fleet. Where a page states a rule rather than a calculation, the regulation behind it is cited under the tool it appears in, with a link to the section rather than to a home page.
A DVIR is not a form, it is the beginning of a chain, and the chain is what gets audited. A driver inspects the vehicle, writes down what is wrong, the carrier repairs it or decides it does not need repairing, somebody certifies that, and the next driver reviews the whole thing before pulling out. Most fleets run the first link well and cannot show the last three. Walkvo is the chain rather than the form: one record per check, the defect attached to the vehicle rather than to a pad, the repair certification against the defect, and the next periodic inspection sitting on the vehicle with a date.
Open the Vehicle checklist app Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
The driver checks and records
The check is completed against the vehicle in a browser on the driver's own phone, with no app to install and nothing in the cab, and it lands as a record with the vehicle, the driver and the time on it.
The defect goes to somebody by name
Anything written in the defect box becomes its own record with an owner, so the failure this whole file exists to prevent, a fault noted and never routed, is visible as an open item rather than as nothing at all.
The repair is certified against the defect
The workshop's sign-off attaches to the defect it answers, and the driver's review attaches to the report. What an inspector asks for is that chain, and producing it is opening the vehicle rather than searching a filing cabinet.
Ask us about the DVIR
Tell us how many vehicles you check, how the reports come back today, and what you are being asked to produce.
What a safety director asks before running the DVIR
Is this an ELD? No, and it never will be. Walkvo records vehicle inspections and the defects they raise. It does not record hours of service, it is not connected to the engine, and it does not go in the cab. If you need an ELD you will buy one from an ELD vendor, and Walkvo will still be where the inspection record lives.
How long do we have to keep a DVIR? The carrier must maintain the report, the certification of repairs and the certification of the driver's review for three months from the date the written report was prepared. Whether that is easy depends entirely on whether the three things are one record or three pieces of paper in different places.
We already use paper. What actually changes? The defect loop, mostly. Paper is a perfectly good way to record a check and a terrible way to prove a repair, because the repair certification ends up somewhere else and nothing counts the defects that never got one. The measurable difference is the number of open defects with no sign-off, which is the first thing a compliance review looks for and the last thing a pad of paper knows.
Walkvo Pro
Keeping the reports an inspector will ask you to produce
The worksheet tells you the shape of the round. Pro holds the round itself: one record per check, one per defect, and a repair sign-off that either exists or visibly does not.
- Keep the file on your own disk as well as ours
- No Walkvo mark on a report that leaves your yard
- Come back to a half-finished check instead of starting it again
- Your company name and USDOT number on every printed report
- The whole fleet at once, for the request that asks for all of it
- The defect goes to whoever books the repair
$10per month, whole team
Start Walkvo Pro PricingWalkvo Pro is $10 a month. It renews on the same day each month at the same price until you cancel, and the price and the renewal date are shown on the checkout page before you pay. We will email you before any price change and you can cancel before it takes effect.