Licence Check adds new features to fleet management platform

Licence Check has added a number of new features including vehicle inspections, defect management, benefit-in-kind (BIK) taxation and fines management to its fleet management platform.

Licence Check’s Davis Fleet is designed to provide fleet managers with actionable and insightful management information from a continuous stream of data variables.

The new features are intended to give fleet managers greater functionality within the platform to help run their fleets more efficiently and with greater insight. 

Amongst the new features, which have been developed following client feedback, Defect Reporting centres around the use of the Davis Driver App, which was launched last autumn. 

This gives drivers the capability to carry out walk-around inspections of their vehicles, capturing photographic evidence of any defects, adding any appropriate notes and updating the fleet manager via the app.

Defects are reported within the new Defect Management dashboard, prompting the fleet manager to select the defect severity level and view and manage any remedial work for the defect, such as glass, bodywork or tyres, through to a successful completion via the feature.  

Fleet managers are also able to upload and share company documents with drivers instantly, via the app, obtaining an e-signature to record acknowledgement and agreement. 

BIK tax reporting and provides company car tax rates up to 2029/30 for all vehicles on the fleet for both 20% and 40% tax bands. 

The feature also captures electric vehicle ranges and CO2 levels without the need for manual input.

Meanwhile, a new downtime management reporting feature allows fleet managers to evaluate the reliability of their vehicles on their fleet by quantifying the amount of time they spend off the road for any given period. 

Also new is the ability to manage fines, such as speeding tickets, Dart charges, parking permits and annual subscriptions within Davis Fleet. 

Fleet managers can assign fines against a driver and vehicle, highlighting repeat offenders and high-risk drivers, as well as quantifying any recharges against drivers for fines received. 

All vehicle information is archived for a minimum of three years so that any disputes can be resolved, and all aggregated fines information is kept in one place.

Licence Check managing director, Keith Allen, said: “Our primary aim is to help fleet managers manage their fleets in a more cost effective, risk efficient and sustainable manner, and to move the Davis platform from what was widely known as a licence checking platform to a comprehensive fleet management offering for car and van fleet operators. 

“These new features are the latest in a stream of new developments we have planned for Davis Fleet which consolidate vital fleet information into one integrated solution to allow fleet managers to do their job more effectively.”