How to Record a Preventive Maintenance Service in Blue Collar Parts
How the PM form works in Blue Collar Parts for trucks, generators, and marine diesel engines: answering items, readings and notes, reviewing each system, and filing the service record.
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When you start a preventive maintenance service event, Blue Collar Parts opens the PM form for that kind of equipment and walks you through it one system at a time. What you record becomes the record your customer receives.
Which form opens
The form follows the asset type:
| Asset type | Form | Systems it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Truck | Over-the-Road Truck PM Inspection | Semi truck PM checklist |
| Generator | Diesel Power Generation PM Inspection | Diesel generator PM checklist |
| Marine | Marine Diesel Propulsion PM Inspection | Marine diesel PM checklist |
Trailers have no dedicated PM form yet; you choose the form you are working to when you start the service event.
These are preventive-maintenance forms. They are not an inspection under 49 CFR 396.17 and not a basis for an out-of-service decision. See PM inspection vs. DOT inspection.
Work through the form
- Each item takes PASS, FAIL, or N/A. On a keyboard, 1, 2, and 3 answer, and J and K move between items.
- Add a READING where a measurement settled the result, and a NOTE where the customer or the next technician needs context.
- UNDO LAST reverses your last answer.
- At the end of each system, review it and press EDIT to change an answer or CONFIRM to move on.
Your answers save on the device as you go. If you lose signal, the status shows OFFLINE · SAVED ON DEVICE and the work waits for the connection.
File the service record
When every item is answered, press FILE SERVICE RECORD.
- Fill in the details for the visit: the unit or vessel identifier, the meter reading (odometer or engine hours), the engine details, the date, and the technician. On a repeat visit, details already on record are filled in under Already on record; use Edit details to change them.
- Optionally add Work performed and Technician notes.
- Tick the acknowledgement that this is a preventive-maintenance service record.
- Under And then, you can tick Mark this work complete now, and choose a Next service date, or leave both for later. Marking work complete cannot be undone.
- Press the button, which reads FILE SERVICE RECORD, FILE AND COMPLETE, FILE AND SCHEDULE, or FILE, COMPLETE AND SCHEDULE depending on your choices.
Next: send the record to your customer. For the write-up habits that make the record worth reading, see complaint, cause, correction.
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