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Reviewing Licence Checking Costs and Risks for the New Financial Year.

For those involved with driving licence checking, the next few weeks before the new financial year is a good time to take a retrospective review of the current financial year’s licence checking activities. This will help to identify the budget and the risk reduction actions required for 2018/19.

Taking a look at historic data is the first part of a systematic approach towards preparing for eventualities that will occur in the approaching financial year. The data will identify the trends that occurred and the costs involved in the previous year. But also looking at the current status of the data, will facilitate the pre-planning for upcoming driving licence alerts, such as convictions, licence expiries, consent renewals and drivers approaching disqualification.

During the existing financial year:

  • How many licence checks were done?
  • How many drivers were checked?
  • What was the cost of those checks?
  • What months incurred the most checks?
  • Is the frequency of checks sufficient?
  • When did most endorsements occur?
  • What was the most common endorsement?

For the next financial year:

  • Will the number of drivers to check increase or decrease?
  • How many drivers will be approaching 9 points or more?
  • How many photocards will expire?
  • How many driver consents will require renewal?
  • Should checking frequencies be reviewed?
  • Should there be additional driver training and education?

Questions such as these, when answered, will highlight potential risk and cost; will reveal the months that will require checking level adjustment; drivers who are in the wrong licence checking frequency; identify the number of driving licences that will expire and if frequency checking on expired licences should be increased.

Then there is the availability of seasonal and offence trend data as discussed in previous Licence Link News articles such as:

Speeding Trends – Finding the Frequency

Drink Driving Trends – Checking Levels

Summertime Driving Trends – Do Endorsements Cool Down?

Winter Driving Conditions – Risk Awareness.

Taking note of the trends identified and the analysis of historic and future event data, it makes sense then to see how online licence checking services like Licence Link can help with risk assessment and reducing costs in the next financial year.

Licence Link manages risk effectively, providing the user when driver consent is given, with up to date driving licence information; convictions, endorsements, points; DVLA mismatched names, address and postcodes; licence categories, category expiries, photocard expiry and much more. Carrying with it auditable trails and providing alerts all in one place, enabling the administrative burden to be removed and the associated costs to be reduced, it limits and controls the risk and costs associated with driving for work activities.

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