Compliance
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We celebrate 3m driving licence checks
Licence Bureau is celebrating checking its three millionth licence as it continues to see fleet compliance raise its profile on the corporate agenda. According to DVLA data Licence Bureau’s volume of licence checks moved from two million to three million checks between June 2016 and February 2018 (20 months). Its previous growth from one to…
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Clancy Group praises additional layer of compliance.
“Licence Bureau is providing a comprehensive risk management service in addition to the basic on line driving licence checks. The migration process to their system has been executed seamlessly with a high level of support during the process. The team at Licence Bureau has provided a bespoke service and have worked collaboratively with us to…
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Does your Company Driver Compliance sparkle?
Licence Bureau’s ‘compliance journey’ begins with an Employee Audit identifying who does and who does not drive on company business. Those employees who are identified as business drivers are asked to submit driving licence details via eDeclaration or a D906 Fair Processing Declaration. Details are then checked at DVLA. Permits to Drive may then be…
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Grey Fleet Owner drivers : Reduce risk and check employees have business insurance to drive and valid MOT and tax
Our Owner driver (Grey Fleet Service) ensures your drivers using their own vehicles are subject to regular unobtrusive compliance checking as recommended by the Health and Safety at Work Act. The questions you need to ask are: Do you really know how many of your employees use their own vehicle to carry out business journeys? Are…
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What are your driver policies and procedures?
Are they detailed and do they support the driver handbook? Below are some example policies you should have. Driver Mobile Phones. Your problem, risk and liability. When your drivers use a mobile phone whilst driving on your behalf, you are also liable. That’s the law, even when they use their own vehicles. Driver Smoking When…
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David Hatton, Transport Manager at Thompsons of Crews Hill ensures drivers are safe and legally compliant to operate their vehicles
“With 13 drivers operating the 12 commercial vehicles on our fleet, with nine of those HGVs, we have a duty-of-care by law to check our drivers’ competency and capability to ensure they are safe and legally compliant to operate our vehicles. This compliance check was previously conducted in-house until we discovered, as part of our…
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Courier Companies urged to introduce licence checks for temporary Christmas drivers
Licence Bureau has issued a five-point guide to ensure temporary drivers remain safe. The launch of the plan comes as delivery firms are preparing to take on seasonal drivers to cater for a spike in online shopping orders in the run up to Christmas. If couriers stick to the approach, new drivers should be able…
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Stowe School attains complete picture of driver risk
Stowe School was founded in 1923 a boarding school with just 99 boys and is now coeducational, with some 550 boys and 220 girls. Alumni includes Richard Branson, Michael Grade, David Niven and Prince Ranier of Monaco. The school employs over 250 staff ranging from Teachers, Administrators, and pastoral support workers to ground staff and minibus…
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Partnership with Company Car in Action
Company Car in Action (CCIA) is one of the UK’s premier annual driving events for fleet managers and company car drivers and Licence Bureau has managed licence checking at the event held at Millbrook, Bedfordshire for the past three years. Bauer Media is a responsible organisation and is committed to ensuring that all the 1,000…
