The week in changelog - vehicle checks, defect logs, and a new export endpoint

A product post, but a short one. Three things shipped this week: daily vehicle walkaround checks in the driver app, defect logging with photos, and a CSV export endpoint for your waste records. Here's how each one works.

Walkaround checks, one swipe at a time

When a driver opens the app, a banner at the top of their home screen tells them a vehicle check is due before they set off. The check itself is a swipe flow: one item per screen, a reference photo showing what good looks like, and a pass-or-defect decision on each. Out of the box the list covers tyres, lights, mirrors, bodywork, fluids and load security. You can add your own items in settings, mark each one required or optional, and attach your own reference photos — the settings screen previews exactly what the driver will see. An odometer reading is required by default, and you can require a photo of the vehicle too.

Every completed check is recorded against the vehicle and the driver, time-stamped and location-stamped, with the full history on the vehicle's page. When an enforcement officer or your O-licence auditor asks, the records are in the system, not in a glovebox folder.

Defect logs

Mark any item as a defect and the driver can describe the fault and photograph it from the cab. The office sees it immediately — not at the end of the week — and the defect sits on the vehicle's record until it's dealt with, so there's a trail from the reported fault to the fix.

None of this is us inventing homework. DVSA's guidance says a driver is responsible for making sure the vehicle is safe, must check it before a journey, and must get dangerous defects fixed before carrying on — and its Guide to maintaining roadworthiness expects walkaround checks and defect reports to be recorded and kept. The app just makes doing that, and proving you did, the path of least resistance.

A new export endpoint

Smaller but frequently asked for: you can now export your waste records as a CSV — date, status, EWC codes, description, carrier, vehicle registration, charges and customer references in one spreadsheet-friendly file. Built for whoever reconciles jobs against invoices at month end and would rather do it in a spreadsheet than a screen.

Daily vehicle checks and defect logs are part of the Business plan; DVLA lookups and vehicle-first scheduling are included from Pro. The full picture, expiry tracking and all, is on the fleet management page.

LoadSnap team

UK waste compliance

Written by the team building LoadSnap, the UK waste compliance platform for carriers and receivers.