Describe your audience and purpose. Makeform creates a driver questionnaire covering relevant experience, vehicle use, habits, and driving history, ready to review and publish.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Drivers listed for a business vehicle policy review
Format
Eligibility questionnaire with conditional history follow-ups
Prompt size
265 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Eligibility questionnaire with conditional history follow-ups
Driver and license details
Years licensed and vehicle types
Typical mileage and vehicle use
Incidents during the review period?
Incident date and explanation
Suggested routing tags
Complete
Needs follow-up
Review requested
Define a time window for incidents and violations so every driver answers the same question instead of interpreting “recent” differently.
Step 1
Define
audience, purpose, and review period
Step 2
Ask
experience, use, habits, and history
Step 3
Route
show follow-ups only when relevant
Step 4
Review
compare structured responses consistently
Better driver data
Separate facts, behaviors, and self-reported history so respondents see relevant questions and reviewers get comparable answers.
An incident answer can reveal date, type, and context fields while everyone else moves ahead.
Use one frequency scale for mileage, night driving, phone use, and related behaviors.
Required core fields make the expected response clear before submission.
One format, different purposes
Insurers need exposure and history, employers need work-driving context, and researchers need neutral measures.
Capture license details, vehicle use, mileage, and dated incident history.
Understand work driving, vehicle types, inspection habits, and training needs.
Collect consistent frequency scales, travel patterns, perceptions, and optional demographics without leading respondents.
Match experience, route comfort, vehicle access, and availability.
Questionnaire workflow
Give Makeform the audience, purpose, and topics, then review the result before sharing it.
Name the respondent group and explain how answers will be used.
Use specific periods, remove unneeded questions, and add relevant vehicles or routes.
Request details only after a relevant incident, vehicle, or support answer.
Share by link or embed, then route submissions for review.
Question design choices
Good driver questionnaires do not make every answer an essay. Structured choices reduce ambiguity, while open text preserves context where it matters.
Field guide
Choose only necessary sections, explain sensitive questions, and limit response access appropriately.
Driver profile
Operational forms may need a name; anonymous research may need only broad bands. Collect identity details that support the purpose.
License and experience
Ask for jurisdiction, class, expiry, and years licensed when relevant. Separate experience by vehicle type.
Exposure and vehicle use
Pair mileage with purpose and conditions, including business, passenger, highway, night, or seasonal driving.
Habits and attitudes
Ask how often a behavior occurs on a labeled scale. Keep direction and time frame consistent.
History and incidents
Start with a defined period and screening question. Then collect dates and context only from drivers with something to report.
Availability and support
Ask when and where the driver can operate and what training or support they want. Keep preferences separate from qualifications.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for insurers, fleet teams, employers, volunteer coordinators, and researchers.
It is a structured set of questions about driving experience, license, vehicle use, habits, availability, or self-reported history. Fields should match a clear insurance, employment, volunteer, or research purpose.
Start with relevant profile, license, experience, vehicles, mileage, trip purpose, and road conditions. Add habits, training, availability, or incident history only when needed.
Define the review period and event types, then ask a screening question. If an event is reported, show fields for date, category, and factual context.
Yes. Conditional logic can show commercial-vehicle questions only to relevant license holders, incident details only after an event is reported, or route and passenger questions only to volunteer drivers. This keeps the main path shorter and the collected details more relevant.
Use dropdowns for categories, clear units for mileage, dates for expiry, and consistently labeled habit scales. Reserve long answers for necessary context.
Yes. For research, you can omit names and direct contact details, use broad demographic bands, and include prefer-not-to-answer choices. Explain the questionnaire's purpose and review every field to ensure you are not collecting identity information you do not need.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge, so you can build and use the complete questionnaire before deciding whether you want that presentation change.
Responses arrive in your Makeform inbox. You can also route them to Google Sheets, notify a reviewer in Slack, or connect other workflows through Zapier. Set access and notification choices around the sensitivity of the information you collect.
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