And it doesn’t just flag the job. It can book it.
Walkarounds, defects, inspections, tachograph and licence checks in one place. Switch on garage booking and, when an inspection falls due, Balloonn emails your garage, reads the reply and books the slot.
Not a separate to-do list. Every line is drawn from your own walkarounds, inspections and licence checks.
Each item names the vehicle, the date and the obligation behind it, so you can check it yourself.
Nothing is signed off or declared roadworthy without a transport manager saying so.
Five logins, five invoices, five places to look. When DVSA asks for fifteen months of records, none of it joins up.
Daily walkaround checks and drivers’ hours come written, with a quiz. Manual handling, load security, reversing and more come as outlines to fill with your own SOP and video. Clone one, make it yours, and assign it.
Your own toolbox talks go in the same place. Set who has to take it and how often it repeats, and the evidence of who has been trained on what sits with the driver’s record.
One record per vehicle and per driver, from the daily check to the annual test.
| Vehicle | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|
| YT19 KLM | Nearside indicator lens cracked · J. Hardwick · 06:05 | Defect |
| LM17 GTA | Brake line chafing, vehicle held · P. Nesbitt · 06:31 | Vehicle held |
| NK18 VDX | 14 items checked, nil defects · A. Coulson · 05:42 | Compliant |
| BD20 HRT | 14 items checked, nil defects · S. Ridley · 06:18 | Compliant |
Every other system tells you an inspection is due, then waits for you to pick up the phone.
Switch it on and Balloonn emails your garage as each inspection falls due, reads the reply and updates the booking. If nobody answers, it chases. A reply it cannot read comes to you.
Across twenty vehicles that is the difference between a morning’s work and a notification.
No app store, no passwords to forget. Big buttons and high contrast, because it gets used in the dark wearing gloves.
A defect reaches the workshop the moment it is reported, with the photograph, vehicle, driver and time attached. Nil-defect checks are logged too, because DVSA expects to see them.
Drivers see their own hours, licence status and training in the same place.
The reason fleet software does not get used is that nobody has time to set it up. So we set it up for you, before you log in for the first time. Most operators are running properly inside a week.