Workshop Job Planner

Forty-eight pages make up the job cards, and that is most of the book, because a workshop job is rarely one clean task. A card gets opened when a unit comes in, and it stays open until the fault is fixed and somebody signs it off. Most of what a shop actually does lives on these pages, not on a wall planner.

Eight day-book pages sit alongside the cards, ruled into four columns: job, unit, fault, hours. Where a job card holds the detail of one repair, the day-book gives a flat list across all of them, so a question like how many hours went into starter motors this month has an answer that does not mean reopening forty-eight cards.

Eleven lined pages catch the rest: a part that had to be sourced twice, a customer who changed the fault description halfway through, a tool that needs replacing before the next job needs it. A closed job card is not the end of the story. It is usually just the end of that particular one.