Daily Vehicle, Tyre and Equipment Checks
Use a consistent pre-work check and act on defects affecting tyres, lights, restraints, doors, windows, cleanliness or required equipment.
Prepare from handbook duty to safe decision
Start with the current TfL instructions, learn each handbook responsibility in context and practise reading precise facts without inventing live assessment parameters.
Core concepts
Concept 1
daily walkaround
Exam cue: A check matters only if a safety-critical defect prevents or stops passenger work.
Concept 2
tyres and wheels
Exam cue: Recheck after damage, warning indications or a change in vehicle behaviour.
Concept 3
lights and visibility
Concept 4
passenger equipment condition
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating a recent inspection or service as a substitute for today's check.
Guardrail: Check whether the fact is handbook assessment content, a current operational rule or an unpublished assessment detail before relying on it.
Deferring a defect because the vehicle can still move.
Guardrail: Check whether the fact is handbook assessment content, a current operational rule or an unpublished assessment detail before relying on it.
Memory anchors
Daily Vehicle, Tyre and Equipment Checks: scope
Use a consistent pre-work check and act on defects affecting tyres, lights, restraints, doors, windows, cleanliness or required equipment.
daily walkaround
A check matters only if a safety-critical defect prevents or stops passenger work.
tyres and wheels
Recheck after damage, warning indications or a change in vehicle behaviour.
lights and visibility and passenger equipment condition
Review these together when applying daily vehicle, tyre and equipment checks.
Daily Vehicle, Tyre and Equipment Checks: avoid
Treating a recent inspection or service as a substitute for today's check. Also avoid deferring a defect because the vehicle can still move.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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