What Blue Collar Parts Is
Blue Collar Parts turns each PM service and annual inspection into a record your customer can open: what was found, what was fixed, and who did the work.
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Short answer
Blue Collar Parts (shopbluecollarparts.com) turns each service a technician does — a preventive maintenance service or an annual inspection — into a record the customer can open: what was found, what was fixed, and who did the work.
Your time. Your work. Your record.
Why it exists
When equipment is down, somebody else's time lands in the technician's hands. The work that gets it running again is skilled, and most of it is invisible once the truck leaves the bay. When that work stays in a notebook, an inbox, or a one-off PDF, the customer has little usable history to work from. Blue Collar Parts gives the work a record the customer can see, so the technician's skill makes their case for them.
How it works
- Do the work. The technician starts a service event for the customer and the asset, then records the service on a phone, in the bay or in the field. An annual inspection records results per component rather than as a single pass/fail verdict.
- Send the record. When the work is marked complete, the technician sends the record to their customer — the equipment owner, its operator, a fleet management company, or a maintenance and repair department. Nothing is sent automatically.
- The customer confirms it. When they confirm it, it's on the technician's record, with the technician's name on it.
Starting is free; you pay when you send the record. See how a service event becomes a record.
What it covers
- Preventive maintenance for trucks, generators, and marine equipment, using truck, marine-diesel, and diesel-generation forms. See what a PM inspection is and what the customer should receive.
- Annual inspections of trucks and trailers under the federal annual inspection, recorded against Appendix A. Only a technician who has attested to the inspector qualifications of 49 CFR 396.19 can record one.
Repair and diagnostic records are not available yet. Neither form is a substitute for a manufacturer service manual.
What it deliberately does not do
This matters as much as the feature list, and it is stated plainly because ambiguity here is a liability:
- It does not make a regulatory determination. The platform can record that a component was measured and what the measurement was. It does not certify that a vehicle is compliant. A qualified inspector under 49 CFR 396.19 makes that determination; the platform records it. A PM result is not an annual inspection — read PM inspection vs. DOT inspection.
- It does not take over anyone's recordkeeping. An annual inspection report still has to be retained for fourteen months under 49 CFR 396.21(b)(1), and that obligation sits with the carrier operating the vehicle. Blue Collar Parts' own retention of a record is not that recordkeeping.
- It does not verify inspector qualification. The technician attests to it. Qualification evidence under §396.19(b) and §396.25(e) is the carrier's recordkeeping obligation.
- It does not replace manufacturer guidance. The manufacturer's documentation controls equipment-specific service intervals, limits, and procedures.
- No machine output sends a record. Where the platform uses automated processing to assist a technician, the output is held beside the technician's own input for human review. Nothing is sent, and no regulatory conclusion is reached, without a person approving it.
Availability
The platform is in active development. Preventive maintenance and annual inspection records, including sending the record to your customer, are available today. Pages marked in development describe planned capabilities that are not yet generally available.
Product behavior described here is subject to change. Regulatory content is informational only and is not legal advice — see 49 CFR Part 396.
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