Pendle Borough Council mandates use of CheckedSafe app for all Private Hire and Hackney Carriages

We are delighted to announce that we have just reached an agreement with Pendle Borough Council wherein the Council have mandated the use of the CheckedSafe App. Now, all Private Hire and Hackney Carriages issued with licences in the borough of Pendle are required, as a condition of their licence, to undertake a daily walkaround check, using CheckedSafe.

This is to improve the standards of the vehicles and importantly it is backed up with the imposition of sanctions if checks are not undertaken or undertaken properly. The importance of this change cannot be overstated. We have been advocating for some time for all such vehicles to be subject to a pre-use daily walkaround check and now Pendle Council have taken the bold move of mandating the same. We anticipate that other local authorities will watch this with interest and hopefully follow suit.

We are also just about to launch our GB Domestic Hours App. We believe that we are the 1st company in the UK to do this. It’s a highly complex area but also very exciting and again a huge industry game changer. Most companies still record data on paper in the W20 books so the move the digital is a huge leap forward.

Finally we launched our Driver Licencing Checking service last year and had our first audit this year –the auditors told us that we are the only company offering remote licence checking, wherein we read the data on the driving licence by taking a picture of it and parsing the data. The makes the whole process fully remote.

For those interested in CheckedSafe’s new development, discover more at: www. checkedsafe.com or call them on 01282 937228.