DOT Annual Inspections Done On Site

About this service

Every commercial vehicle operating at 10,001 pounds GVWR or more must have a periodic inspection performed under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, with the record and inspection sticker kept with the vehicle. For most fleets that means a recurring exercise in logistics: staging trucks, deadheading them to a shop, losing them for a day, and doing it all again next year.

We remove the logistics. Our inspectors come to your yard, work through your unit list, perform the inspection to the FMCSA standard, and give you the sticker, the written report, and a plainly stated list of what passed, what needs attention and what would put a truck out of service at a roadside check.

What dot inspections involves

The annual periodic inspection

A structured inspection of the vehicle against the FMCSA periodic inspection standard — covering brake systems and adjustment, coupling devices and fifth wheel, lighting and electrical, tyres and wheel assemblies, steering and suspension, exhaust and fuel systems, frames, emergency equipment and the cab and body items that get checked.

Documentation and sticker

The inspection report and the inspection sticker are completed properly and handed over, so your vehicles carry the record they are required to carry and your compliance file is genuinely complete.

Repaired on the spot where possible

A large share of inspection failures are minor — a lamp, an air leak, a slack adjuster, a missing mud flap, an insecure battery. Because our technicians carry tools and parts, many units are corrected in the same visit and pass instead of being taken out of service for a return trip.

Fleet inspection scheduling

For fleets, we work to a unit list and a calendar so inspections happen on a rolling basis rather than all in the same frantic week, and so nothing quietly lapses.

Pre-trip and pre-purchase inspections

Independent inspections for a unit you are about to buy, or ahead of a long haul, giving you a clear read on condition before you commit money or miles.

Inspection preparation

Ahead of a DOT blitz or a CSA review, we walk the fleet, correct the findings and document the work — a much cheaper exercise than losing units to roadside inspections and taking the CSA hit.

Common problems we are called for

If any of the following sounds familiar, call dispatch and describe it — it helps us send the right technician and the right parts on the first trip.

• Inspection sticker or paperwork out of date
• Fleet inspection dates bunching up on the calendar
• Trucks losing a full day to shop-based inspections
• Recent roadside inspection defects or citations
• A CSA score that needs attention
• Buying a used truck and needing an independent opinion
• A trailer or unit that has sat unused for months
• Aging fleet with rising defect rates
• New drivers reporting poor unit condition
• An audit coming and paperwork that is incomplete

How Allday Fleet Solutions helps

We inspect what the regulation actually requires, and we tell you what we find in plain language. A clean pass gets a pass. A defect gets written down with a clear statement of how serious it is, so your maintenance decision is based on fact rather than a vague 'needs work'.

Because the same organisation repairs what it inspects, the loop closes fast. Minor defects are corrected in the same visit in most cases; anything that needs a shop is scheduled, and you know exactly which units are legal to run and which are not.

Fleets use us for the annual cycle, for pre-purchase inspections on used equipment, and for pre-season checks on seasonal equipment — the three moments where an hour of inspection saves an enormous amount of money later.

Where this applies

We handle dot inspections across the commercial vehicle types below and more. If your unit is not listed, call anyway — the list is not exhaustive.

• Tractor and trailer fleets
• Straight trucks and box trucks
• Dump and construction trucks
• Bus and shuttle operations
• Municipal and utility fleets
• Trailer pools and chassis fleets
• Equipment and specialty vehicles
• Pre-purchase used truck inspections

What you get

• Inspections performed at your yard, on your schedule
• Units corrected on site wherever possible — no second trip
• Proper report and sticker handed over the same day
• Rolling inspection calendars so nothing lapses
• Pre-purchase inspections on used equipment
• Findings explained in plain language, defects prioritised honestly