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No charge for new online licence checking service

Fleets will not be initially charged when the new online licence checking service goes live, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has announced.

24 Jul

FTA licence check reveals most common failures

The Freight Transport Association’s driver licence checking service has now carried out 10,000 checks on driver licences and has revealed some of the most frequent problems.

26 Jun

DVLA pledges to work with fleets at seminar hosted by Fleet News and ACFO

Fleets were given the very latest news from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) on the abolition of the tax disc, the removal of the paper counterpart and the suppression of V5C, at a special seminar hosted by Fleet News and ACFO last week.

16 Jun

Concerns over online licence checking system

How and when companies will be given access by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to an online licence-checking database looks increasingly unclear.

3 Jun

Licence Bureau launches compliance tool to manage risk

A new online platform has been launched by the Licence Bureau to help organisations in the public and private sectors manage risk.

30 May

KBC Logistics shows merits of driver licence checking after compliance near miss

Transport services company KBC Logistics has signed up to Licence Bureau’s licence checking service after nearly finding out the hard way the consequences of not ensuring compliance.

2 Apr

Licence checking and duty of care head fleet system “shopping list”

Licence checking and duty of care head the “shopping list” of new management information systems fleets are planning to adopt, according to the latest quarterly Company Car Trends report from GE Capital Fleet Services.

2 Apr

Five in every 1000 drivers do not hold valid licence

More than five in every 1,000 company car, van and truck drivers do not hold a valid licence to legally drive their company vehicle.

18 Mar

Survey finds four out of ten drivers 'not concentrating'

Only sixty per cent of drivers concentrate when they are behind the wheel, according to a poll by the IAM.

11 Feb

Warning about driving licence renewal reminders received by text or email

Motorists are being warned that text messages or emails regarding a licence which is due for renewal have not been sent by the DVLA.

21 Jan

New 45 points record for driver

A man from Liverpool accumulated 45 licence penalty points in November, according to figures released by the DVLA following an IAM freedom of information request.

7 Jan

DVLA confident it can deliver licence checking alternative

The Department for Transport will not withdraw the paper counterpart of the driving licence until it has produced a viable alternative solution for the daily rental industry.

25 Nov

Woman receives 42 points and still allowed to drive

A woman from Isleworth, West London, accumulated 42 licence penalty points last year, for failing to disclose the identity of the driver between 26 May and 21 December 2012, according to the latest figures from the DVLA.

5 Sep

Pertemps tackles driver licence checking with Jaama

One of the UK’s largest recruitment agencies, Pertemps, is using Jaama’s electronic driver entitlement checking service (EDECS) to verify the licences of 1,000 employees and thousands of agency drivers, including HGV Class 1 drivers.

31 Jul

New DVLA service ‘will not’ impact licence checking companies

The DVLA’s decision to introduce a digital database for organisations to check drivers’ records will raise the importance of employee licence checking, according to experts.

30 Jul