Driver Licences
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FTA reveals most common driving licence failures
The Freight Transport Association has now carried out 10,000 checks on driver licences with its Driver Licence Checking Service, which was developed in conjunction with the Licence Bureau. The service is designed to manage the labour-intensive job on members’ behalf, ensuring that their business is operating legally whilst providing immediate benefits from time and cost…
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Over the counter medicines
If drivers are taking hay fever medicine which can cause drowsiness, do you have to take this into account from a medical point of view during a driving licence check? The use of over-the-counter medicines does not normally class as a notifiable condition with regard to notifying the medical group for DVLA. However, what you…
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Why do I need to check my drivers’ licences?
The legal minimum requirement in the UK is for the driver of a vehicle to hold a full and valid driving licence for that vehicle category. If this driver is an employee and driving on company time, for business purposes, you as the employer has a duty of care to ensure that the employee acts…
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Update from the DVLA on abolishing the counterpart driving licence
Background The DVLA is committed to abolishing the paper counterpart to the photocard driving licence by 2015 following the outcome of the governments Red Tape Challenge consultation on road transportation. Paper licences issued before the photocard was introduced in 1998 are not affected. Currently, anyone wishing to check a driver’s licence status including entitlements and…
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Concerns over the DVLA online licence checking system for fleets
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. The DVLA told Fleet News it remains committed to developing an online portal for fleets to check if employees are eligible to drive. However, with the removal of the paper counterpart…
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BusinessCar: Corporate Licence Checking
Speaking to BusinessCar managing director of Licence Bureau, Malcolm Maycock, expressed concern about how the DVLA would handle corporate licence checks after the counterpart’s demise. Read the full article here
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FSB Business Awards 2014 Finals
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FleetWorld article highlights our Compliance Managed Services
A new web tool has been launched by the Licence Bureau to provide fleets with an integrated solution for licence checking and risk management/assessment. Intended to help provide firms with an auditable trail to show compliance with duty of care and corporate manslaughter legislation, the firm’s Compliance Managed Services are aimed at businesses of any…
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On the right rails
Licence Bureau has won a two-year tender to supply driver licence checking services for the railway infrastructure company Network Rail. The contract, announced today after a tender process started in August 2013, sees Licence Bureau starting a partnership to deliver Network Rail’s driver licence validation service as well as a comprehensive audit of all employees…
