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A yellow single-deck bus at a depot in early light

For bus, coach and haulage depots

The yard already knows which vehicles sat. The wall often does not.

Page Anchorpoint sits through a morning briefing, walks the apron, and draws a utilisation and maintenance board your duty supervisor can update with a pen.

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Before the first departure

A briefing that can point at yesterday’s running, VOR, and inspection due dates without shuffling three clipboards.

Most transport offices in the United Kingdom already keep the facts: a running sheet, a vehicle-off-road list, and a diary of PSV or MOT windows. They live in different books. Night staff inherit a story that was true at 18:00 and is wrong by 05:30.

We do not replace your planner or your workshop book. We put the columns the briefing already uses onto one board, in the words your fitters already say: ran, sat, VOR, waiting on parts, inspection due.

Fleet no. Yesterday Workshop Due
2418 Ran — 18:40 Clear Safety, 4 Sep
2422 Sat — spare Tyre from stores
2501 VOR Injector, ETA Fri Overdue card

Sample headings from a northern PSV depot. Your columns follow your yard, not this table.

Flagship work

Yard utilisation board

One depot visit, then a wall board covering a rolling month of running, sitting, and VOR. Helen Cawley leads the visit. You receive print-ready artwork and a laminated working copy, then two rounds of amendment after a week of live mornings.

Read what the visit includes

Related work

Boards and packs that sit beside utilisation

A fitter working under a raised vehicle in a workshop bay

Inspection window board

A workshop-facing board that lines up PSV, MOT and safety inspection due dates against bay time you actually have.

How this is delivered
Tools and a vehicle lift inside a working garage

Workshop bay load review

A review of how work actually occupies your bays across a week, including defect jobs that never appear on the planned sheet.

How this is delivered
An HGV on a wet carriageway with spray off the tyres

Spare cover pack

A paper pack that shows how often you needed a spare vehicle, and what happened when none was available, using your own running sheets.

How this is delivered
A coach at rest beside a passenger building

Morning briefing pack

A printed weekly pack the duty supervisor can hold in the yard: runs, VOR, inspection due, and spare cover on four sheets.

How this is delivered

From one municipal garage

What changed after the board went up

A County Durham depot had a whiteboard that listed VOR in red and nothing else. Relief supervisors kept a private list of buses that had “not really run” because they left late from the washer. After the visit, that column had a name. Darren Holt, the depot supervisor, still updates it in marker before the 05:15 briefing.

More from yards we have sat in

Who comes to the depot

Portrait of a woman in a dark jacket against a plain wall

Helen Cawley

Depot visits and utilisation boards

Portrait of a man in a collared shirt

Marcus Adeyemi

Workshop boards and bay load

Portrait of a woman with a slight smile

Priya Nair

Briefing packs and spare-cover tables

How the Alston office works with a depot