Driving Licence Checking Service

Driver Licence Checking is essential in helping you or your company meet 'duty of care' obligations under HSE (Health and Safety Executive) regulations.

Being able to verify that drivers hold valid and current licences for the vehicles they are driving. 

No longer is it enough to just look at licences or take a photo copy, as there are a number of easy ways to fake or hide the information displayed on the licence.

Data generated by licence checks can also be used to identify 'higher risk' drivers.

Driver Licence Checking helps you:

• Obtain the correct and current information held by the DVLA
• Find Employees who are unlicenced or only provisionally licenced
• Identify 'higher risk' drivers, and therefore reduce accident rates
• Save time by letting us collate all the information for you

 See 10 things you should be doing if you run a fleet of vehicles

Warnings against not adequatly checking licences

Firms that fail to carry out adequate driving licence checks on company drivers are not only putting road users at risk, but could also be breaking the law.

The warning, from Norwich Union Risk Services fleet specialist Steve Palmer, came after vehicle leasing company ALD Automotive revealed that a recent licence checking exercise had found that one in 70 were ineligible to drive.

The investigation, conducted for ALD by the Licence Bureau with the help of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), found that seven drivers from five different firms had been using a company vehicle without a valid licence.

Malcolm Maycock, of the Licence Bureau, said: "When we alerted the companies they were understandably and rightly shocked. As far as they were concerned in every case the employees were OK to drive."

He went on to warn that many companies paid little attention to checking the validity of the driving licences of staff.

Contact Julie Walker to find out more about our Licence Checking Services

0121 308 1233 or email julie@driven-ltd.co.uk