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Fleet Service Request Form
A fleet service request form is written for a transport manager booking work across a yard. Vehicle number, service type, and whether the vehicle can stay in service until the slot.
For hauliers, couriers, freight forwarders and fleet operators.
Availability, not just the fault
Fleet work is scheduled around operations. A tractor unit that must be back for a Monday trunk is a different booking from one sitting spare, even if the job is identical - and workshops schedule badly when nobody tells them which is which.
So this template asks whether the vehicle is off the road, when it's needed back, and whether a replacement is required. Those three answers let a workshop sequence a week's work properly instead of taking vehicles in the order they were reported.
Requests you can actually schedule
A name and "sometime next week" isn't a booking. What you need is when they can come, what they want, and how to reach them if the slot moves.
This template asks all three, so the diary entry is a copy-and-paste rather than a conversation.
Dimensions, weight and dates - or it isn't a quote
A shipping enquiry without dimensions, weight and both postcodes cannot be priced, so it becomes a phone call. On a form, those are four fields and a dropdown.
The same applies to bookings and claims: the specifics are the entire message, and asking for them in a fixed order gives you something a dispatcher can act on immediately.
Give them options, not a blank box
Open questions get vague answers. Offering the services and the times you actually have makes the request usable, and quietly steers people towards the slots you want to fill.
Make it yours in a minute
Change the wording, drop the questions you don't need, add the ones you do, put your own colour on it. Saving publishes it, and you get a link to paste into your website, your email signature or a message. Responses land in your dashboard and download as a spreadsheet whenever you want them.
What this template asks
- Your name
- Company or depot
- Email address
- Phone number
- Fleet number or registration
- Vehicle type
- Make and model
- Odometer reading
- What's needed?
- Describe the work or the defect
- If it's a defect, how serious?
- Is there a statutory due date?
- Is the vehicle currently off the road?
- Preferred date
- When is it needed back in service?
- Do you need a replacement vehicle?
- Where is the vehicle now?
- How will it get to the workshop?
- Anything else?
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Questions
Should this handle inspections as well as repairs?
Yes - ask the service type. Statutory inspections are date-driven and repairs are fault-driven, and a workshop needs to know which it's scheduling.
Can we submit several vehicles at once?
One form per vehicle keeps the records clean, and it's quick. For a whole-fleet inspection programme, export the responses and plan from the spreadsheet.
Does this book the slot automatically?
No - it collects a request, and you confirm it. That's deliberate: real diaries have exceptions, and a form that promises a slot you can't honour costs more than one that asks.
Can I limit the options people can pick?
Yes. The service and time-of-day lists are yours to edit, so people can only choose from what you actually offer. You can also close the form when you're full.
Will I know straight away?
Yes, if you want to be. Turn on live notifications and every request is emailed to you the moment it arrives; otherwise collect them and read them in your dashboard.
Can drivers submit forms from a phone?
Yes - that's the main way these get used. One small page, works on a poor signal, no app to install on anyone's personal phone.
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