THE Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has awarded a valuable concession to members of the British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association and their responsibility to record vehicle mileages on V5 registration documents. Companies must fill in a V5 for every vehicle they sell, and there is a voluntary code of practice which calls for a vehicle's mileage to be registered on the form.

While all BVRLA members record the mileage of vehicles at the end of their fleet lives for residual value and excess mileage charges purposes, it is difficult for them to record these manually on the V5 when they are defleeting vehicles nationwide. The DVLA has recognised this difficulty and is prepared to accept that so long as BVRLA members provide vehicles' end-of-contract mileages to the association's mileage database, run by Vehicle Mileage Check, they do not have to record mileages on V5 forms.