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The daily walkaround check is a legal duty, not a nice-to-have. Before a commercial vehicle goes out, someone has to look it over and record that they did — and yet most Irish fleets still do this on a paper book that lives in the cab, gets rained on, and is almost impossible to produce…

There is no single sticker price for vehicle tracking in Ireland. What you pay depends on the size of your fleet, the type of vehicles you run, the hardware you choose and how many features you switch on. A simple GPS tracker on a couple of vans costs very little; a fully integrated system covering…

The Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness Test (CVRT) is the annual roadworthiness test for goods vehicles, buses and certain trailers in Ireland, run under the RSA at authorised test centres (cvrt.ie). A pass produces a Certificate of Roadworthiness (CRW) — the document that lets the vehicle stay legally on the road. Preparation matters because a failed test…

In Ireland the driver card must be downloaded at least every 21 days, and the vehicle unit (VU) at least every 3 months (RSA/cvrt.ie). The downloaded data must then be kept for a minimum of 12 months. Many operators download more often to stay safely inside those limits. The driver-card rule: every 21 days Each…