Rapid Response selects DAVIS to automate licence checking
Prior to appointing Licence Check, the service relied on manual licence checking systems via the DVLA but found these too time consuming, labour intensive, costly and prone to error.
Back to business – are you ready for the road?
The Driving for Better Business ‘Ready for the Road?’ package takes drivers through the process of ensuring their car or van is fully roadworthy after being left unused for weeks or months, as well as showing them how to sanitise the vehicle effectively.
VOR? Get a SORN
A Statutory Off-Road Notification is used to inform the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that you’re registering a vehicle as off the road - and once done it must not be driven on a public road, at any time.
DVLA sets new date for abolition of paper licence
Stay of Execution - The paper licence will still be in place until June THE DVLA has applied the brakes to plans to end the counterpart paper-licence until 8 June. It wants to ensure an efficient on-line system is in place for businesses to check driver details It told Business Vans earlier this month that it would not [...]
Paper licence stay of execution extended after Government backs down
The paper counterpart isn't for the chop just yet The Government has done a u-turn on abolishing the driving licence paper counterpart next month. At the end of November in reply to an enquiry by Business Vans, the DVLA said, “We want to make it as easy as possible for motorists and businesses to access government services. Timescales for [...]
Rental companies will be able to use a mixture of free and paid for services to verify drivers’ details early 2015, the DVLA confirmed yesterday
External licence checking companies like this one are likely to become more popular with the change in DVLA rules THE DVLA is planning to roll-out new ways to check driving licence entitlement and points after the current paper counter-part is dropped next year. The vehicle rental industry in Britain this week expressed concern over how they will check driver’s DVLA [...]
The DVLA has failed its test for withdrawing the paper counterpart to photo card licences, says the rental industry
Want to hire a van short term? Beware, as the axing of licence counterparts, could mean calling the premium rate DVLA call centre for vetting. HIRERS wanting vans for short term jobs face having to use premium rate DVLA call centre number or private vetting businesses, according to the BVRLA. The counterpart, which has been around since 1998, is [...]
DVLA warning over bogus email to drivers
Author: ROBIN ROBERTS Drivers have been targetted with a bogus email requesting verification of details held on the DVLA Swansea database. The scam phishing email purports that the DVLA is updating its database and warns that refusing to supply the information would result in having to take a new driving test. It includes a link which opens up [...]
Van operators need to check driver licences
Genuine: Illegal licences are a growing menace for businesses and drivers need thorough checks Commercial van fleets should look to have their employee’s paperwork in order, as thousands of UK workers are on the road illegally, statistics from the Licence Bureau suggest. The company, which verifies driving licences on behalf of businesses, says there are approximately 24000 business [...]
Driving licence fee increase from April
Author: ROBIN ROBERTS Van drivers will be affected by a new proposal to increase the fees for driving licences next April. The proposal has three options. One; apply the common driver fee of £20 to provisional and 5-yearly renewal applications for vocational driving licences. Two; increase the fee for a first provisional car or motorcycle licence by [...]
Did you miss the transfer season for your van?
Author: ROBIN ROBERTS On the 17th June over 1,700 personalised registration plates went under the hammer at the DVLA’s three-day special event being staged at City Hall in London. Personal plates can prove to be extremely useful to small businesses and van fleet operators as an advertising platform and therefore the first of these events to be held [...]
Warning over fake driving licences
Hitachi Capital releases 10-point plan to tackle counterfeit driving licences.
