Driving Monitor will be demonstrating its new eConsent paperless driving licence checking service at the Health and Safety Show at the NEC Birmingham on March 24, 25 and 26.

Further demonstrations will be held at the Excel conference centre in London on June 16, 17, and 18.

The sessions will show how a fleet manager can now perform instant real-time checks on their fleet as soon as a driver enters their licence details.

Kevin Curtis, managing director of Driving Monitor, said: "Traditionally we've had to rely on the DVLA ‘batch' processing model where we send a volume of licence checking data via a secure channel to the DVLA, and then wait for the ‘batch' of results to be returned.

“The new platform has opened up a whole range of new services we can offer with instant real-time checks. We can also get instant results when a driver completes our Driving Monitor risk assessment profiler, meaning the DVLA data is right up-to-date allowing the risk assessment to be 100% accurate instantly.

"We have also recently tested the new real-time service against the current overnight batch service that we use via a secure DVLA link. Our results found that 100% of records that were previously suppressed via the overnight EDECs service were checked successfully via the new real-time service. This is a marked improvement on reducing the number of records that previously were held up by the DVLA if they were working on a licence. We can now use the new real-time service to reduce the number of blocked records."