Driver Licence Checking | FleetCheck

Employers and employees should take reasonable precautions to mitigate risks whilst driving at work. Negligent employers may be criminally liable for corporate manslaughter in the case of a serious road accident.

A fundamental element when mitigating the risk to an organisation should be the validation of a persons right to drive a vehicle. Steps must be taken to reduce the risk presented by the driver to themselves and other road users. Driving licence entitlement and risk potential need to be checked on a regular basis.

Simply checking your drivers’ photocards to carry out licence checking is not sufficient as it doesn’t show any driving offences or endorsements.

Using the government “view your driving record” service is free but time-consuming. If you wish to check someone else’s driving licence online, you need the last 8 characters of their driving licence number and a check code from the driver themselves. You must not use their national insurance number to find this information.

	Visually Check Photocard	Gov.uk Online	FleetCheck LicenceAssured
Cost to business	This type of licence check is NOT valid.	High level of administration required.	Free setup & training then £3.50 per check
Real-time DVLA Data
Automatic reminders
Automated rechecks based on driver risk
Full audit trail
Driver consent method		Requires new check code from driver every time.	Mandate - valid for 3 years.

Gov.uk Online - Total time per check = 21 minutes
On average, it takes a driver fifteen minutes to use the DVLA site to generate the one-time code and six minutes of administration time chasing the driver and logging the results in an internal system.

FleetCheck LicenceAssured - Total time per check = 1 minute
We have found that it takes a driver five minutes and an administrator one minute to set up an electronic mandate for three years. Each check thereafter takes ZERO time for the driver and one minute for the administrator to view the licence check.