Handover
Who has the vehicle now, and the kilometres it changes hands on
Check out when you take the vehicle, check in when you hand it back. The vehicle’s own page says who has it now and since when.
Right now
The vehicle says who has it now
Scan the sticker or look up the fleet number, and you see whether the vehicle is free, whether you have it, or whether a colleague has it — with since when beside it. That is what somebody standing next to it wants to know.
Switching it on
The shift log is something you switch on
Check-outs stay off until your firm turns them on — a decision somebody makes, not a setting that arrives that way. Turn them off again later and nobody is stranded: whoever is still holding a vehicle keeps the way to hand it back, so no shift is left hanging open.
Check out, check in
Check out and check in, on one number
Checking out and checking in both take the odometer, prefilled with the last reading on record. If the clock has not moved, you just press the button. A vehicle taken out of service cannot be taken out again, but can always be handed back — otherwise there would be no way to let go of it.
Shifts
The next shift takes it over
If a colleague still has the vehicle open when you take it, your check-out closes their shift — on the same number yours begins at. No gap between two shifts and no kilometres counted twice. Your own list shows which vehicles you still have open, so none of them is forgotten.
What Curbed answers with this is who has the vehicle now. There is no shift history to read back: closed shifts are recorded, and shown nowhere. We would rather say so here than when you go looking for last month’s handovers.
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See it on your own fleet
We set new companies up by hand, so a demo starts with your vehicles and your depots rather than a sample account.