Off-road driving specialist LR Driving is now able to instantly check drivers’ licences electronically before they get behind the wheel with the help of DriverCheck.

LR Driving clients can now enter their licence details online before having their eligibility confirmed in a fully automated, paper-free system

Based in Bedfordshire, LR Driving has a fleet of 17 different marque off-road vehicles that provide a range of driving experiences for corporate groups and private individuals.

The company, which handles around 8,000 drivers a year, previously relied on the Government-backed paper-based licence sharing scheme, which required drivers to give their NI numbers to generate a code for permission to access their DVLA records.

This was time-consuming and onerous – both for LR Driving and its clients – and the company researched the internet to find something far more efficient and fully automated, which led it to DriverCheck.

By employing DriverCheck’s flexible declaration methodology, LR Driving clients can enter their licence details online before having their eligibility confirmed in a fully automated, paper-free system.

LR Driving can access the licence check results via a dedicated portal that employs dashboard imagery for the company to view the returned licence data and either allow or decline the driver from driving.

“This is much less onerous system for our clients, takes all the paper out of the system and improves efficiency dramatically. It allows us to verify driver eligibility in a completely automated, speedy and highly effective manner,” said general manager Ed Flanagan.

DriverCheck provides highly efficient managed services for clients to remove the administrative and operational burdens of licence checking and grey fleet management from their daily activities.

Managing director Yvette Giannini commented: “In the case of LR Driving, the client needed a solution where the driver could complete the declaration quickly and efficiently for a one-off licence check, view the details and then let the driver drive.

“Flexible declaration is perfect in that regard and is ideal for businesses, such as daily rental companies, or providers of tests drives or driving experiences, that need to validate the eligibility of numbers of drivers in a fast, efficient and completely automated manner,” she stated.