Flagship board
Yard utilisation board
A wall board for the transport office that shows which buses, coaches or HGVs ran, sat, or waited on parts the previous day.
Who it is for
Transport managers, depot supervisors and schedulers at UK bus, coach and haulage depots who brief crews before the first departure.
What you should be able to do afterwards
The morning briefing can point at a single board instead of three clipboards and a half-remembered conversation about which vehicle never left the yard.
Scope
One depot, one vehicle class or mixed fleet as agreed, covering a rolling thirty-day window once the board is in use.
Included
- One full depot visit (yard walk, workshop conversation, and observation of a morning briefing)
- A written map of how you currently record runs, VOR, and spare cover
- A utilisation board designed for your wall or briefing table, with column headings in the language your fitters already use
- A one-page key so night staff and relief supervisors can update it without a training course
- Two rounds of amendment after you have used the board for a week of live running
Not included
- Live telematics feeds, GPS installs, or software licences
- Rewriting your operator licence application
- Covering a second depot unless booked as a separate visit
Who attends
Helen Cawley leads the visit; Marcus Adeyemi drafts the workshop columns if maintenance status sits on the same board.
How the work runs
- You send last week’s running list, VOR sheet, and a photo of the wall you intend to use.
- We visit the depot, walk the yard at a shift change, and sit through one briefing.
- We draft the board layout on paper in the canteen or supervisor’s office before leaving.
- You receive the finished board artwork (print-ready and a laminated working copy) within the agreed window.
- After seven days of use we amend headings, colour keys, or spare-vehicle rows that did not survive contact with the night shift.
Time
Visit of one working day. Board delivered ten to sixteen working days after the visit, depending on print specification.
Where
On site at your depot in the United Kingdom, then remote amendments by email and phone.
What to prepare
Nominate one person who owns the morning briefing. Have a spare high-vis and yard access arranged. Pull seven days of running sheets, not a cleaned-up monthly summary.
Limits we will not paper over
We work from the records you already keep. If running sheets and the workshop book disagree, the board will show that disagreement rather than hide it.
Fees
Visit day £850. Board production from £1,000 depending on size, lamination, and whether the maintenance window sits on the same sheet. Travel beyond a three-hour rail journey from Alston is quoted separately.
Next step
Write with your depot town and fleet type so we can say whether a single visit is enough.