Environmental risk reduction specialist, Adler & Allan, has implemented Licence Check’s Driver and Vehicle Information Solutions (DAVIS) to reduce the risk on its fleet.
The system checked the driving licences of more than 1,000 fleet drivers to ensure greater accuracy and transparency.
Harrogate-based Adler & Allan operates more than 1,000 cars, vans, HGVs and plant on its central fleet.
Adler & Allan said that, to meet its corporate duty of care obligations in its business, checking, monitoring and validating drivers’ licences could be a mammoth administrative task – especially as licence checks are carried out every three months for all drivers.
It has implemented DAVIS to allow the continual monitoring of all drivers, including newcomers and leavers, and acts as a filter for the HR department for driver recruitment and employment.
Steve Madeley, group fleet administration manager at Adler & Allan, said: “We currently have over 2,000 drivers across the extended Group and the current plan is to migrate them all onto DAVIS over time.
“We have a compact fleet team of three and, at the moment, have 1,050 drivers on the system. However, DAVIS makes the management of their licences very easy and straightforward for us.
“The use of DAVIS allows us to accurately monitor and assess all potential new drivers joining the business, and we recommend that any with over six points on their licence are not recruited.
“We are also able to identify any drivers with previous drink-drive convictions and flag them up to help assess what potential impact these may have with insurers.
“The platform allows us to easily identify such individuals and suggest or make the appropriate management interventions. We rate all drivers as low, medium or high risk and currently have 29 high risk drivers on our fleet, information we are easily able to obtain from DAVIS reporting.
“Having this level of transparency and detail proves very beneficial when negotiating with our insurers.”
Keith Allen, managing director of Licence Check, added: “As with all fleets of this size, the use of DAVIS reduces what would otherwise be a huge administrative task into one that is readily manageable, especially for what is quite a compact fleet team at Adler & Allan.
“The ongoing evolution of DAVIS means that we are constantly refining and updating the platform to help fleet managers manage their drivers’ licences in a more cost and time effective manner, meeting duty of care obligations, reducing risk and creating a clear and transparent picture for insurers.
“Our ongoing objective is to continue to further develop DAVIS, with a range of modules and enhancements, from what was originally known as a pure licence checking operation to a comprehensive fleet management offering for car and van fleet operators.
“The feedback we get from fleet manager users is that they really value our developments in this direction.”
