UK drivers are facing increasing danger on the roads as thousands of workers are driving illegally.

Based on the thousands of checks that it carries out every week, Licence Bureau, the UK’s leading authority on driver qualifications, estimates that there are 24,000 people driving illegally for companies in Britain today. During 2011 Licence Bureau found that on average one in every 300 licences were invalid.

As it has been estimated that up to a third of all road traffic incidents involve somebody who is at work at the time, this could account for more than 20 fatalities and 250 serious injuries every week.

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Licence Bureau are exhibiting at “The SHE Show” which is a high profile conference running alongside an exhibition featuring key suppliers and service providers in the fields of safety, health and environment.

Please see additional information in document here.

Now in its fourth year it is fast becoming one of the most successful events of its kind in the SHE arena.

To book your place for the SHE event at the Hilton Blackpool, Lancashire on 26 June 2012, please contact Kat Florek Event Organiser on katia@washingtondowling.com or call 01257 452230 for additional information.

Please register for the show at  http://www.thesheshow-northwest.com/delegates/registration/

Based on the thousands of checks that it carries out every week, Licence Bureau estimates that there are 24,000 people driving illegally for companies in Britain today. During 2011 Licence Bureau found that on average 1 in every 300 licences were invalid.

Licence Bureau, which verifies driving licences on behalf of businesses, discovered that of the non-compliant drivers that they checked 43% were driving on a provisional licence, 31% were on a revoked licence and 9% were disqualified.

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UK motorists are facing increasing danger on roads as thousands of workers are thought to be illegally driving for businesses.

Based on the checks that it carries out every week, Licence Bureau, the UK’s leading authority on driver qualifications, estimates that there are 24,000 people driving illegally for companies in Britain today.  During 2011 Licence Bureau found that on average 1 in every 300 licences were invalid.

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Many of the UK’s company directors are running the risk of facing corporate manslaughter and Health and Safety charges, which carry unlimited fines and publicity orders, as thousands of their workers are driving illegally, that’s the warning from document checking firm, Licence Bureau.

By making thousands of checks each week, Licence Bureau estimates that there are 24,000 people driving illegally for companies in Britain today. During 2011 Licence Bureau found that on average 1 in every 300 licences were invalid.

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Licence Bureau is proud to sponsor this report by the Fleet Safety Forum, a division of Brake, the road safety charity. Essential reading for fleet managers: see how your company measures up in comparison to other fleets in key risk management areas. Licence Bureau are offering free 1 year subscriptions to the Fleet Safety Forum to customers (who aren’t already subscribers). Find out more about the Fleet Safety Forum at www.fleetsafetyforum.org, and if you are already a Licence Bureau customer please go to   http://www.licencebureau.co.uk/free-fleet-safety-forum-subscription-offer/ for details of the free subscription offer.

The Freight Transport Association, in conjunction with Licence Bureau, the country’s leading provider of secure driver licence checks, is now offering a driver licence checking service specifically tailored for FTA members.

Health and safety legislation requires companies to have a robust procedure for checking the licences of everyone driving their vehicles, whether HGVs, buses, coaches, vans or company cars.  But the internal checking of licences is often time-consuming, and inefficient.  Crucially, revoked, disqualified, provisional and expired licences cannot always be identified when checked this way, particularly if drivers have duplicate licences.

The driver licence checking service means that this labour-intensive job can be managed on behalf of customers.  Licence Bureau’s experience shows that companies using its services can achieve a high level of driver compliance within the first 3-6 weeks of enrolment in the scheme.

Customers will have 24/7 access to online driver reports through a dedicated website, enabling managers to produce their own tailor-made reports.

Licence Bureau also provides customers with same-day alerts for high risk drivers.

The report includes:

• Licence status – full or provisional
• Licence category detail – categories entitled to drive, expiry dates and information codes
• Full details of disqualifications, endorsements, offence dates or conviction dates
• Licence expiry alert
• LGV/PCV entitlement and category expiry alert
• Photo card expiry alert

Vehicle categories on driving licences are changing from 19^th January 2013.

Please see the details surrounding these important  new categories and amendments  in the  document  INF245

More information on the change can be found at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing

Driving licence category changes are coming into effect on 19th January 2013.

Please see the details surrounding these important category conversions in the document INF244

More information on the change can be found at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing

The great work of public road safety agencies, commercial organisations and the private sector is having a positive effect with road deaths down 48% from the average across 1994-8.

Malcolm Maycock Director of Licence Bureau said “ The trend is great news. Licence Bureau are pleased to act as a catalyst through our business  to  encourage companies to take on a positive commercial driving culture in tandem with driving compliance adherence as these steps ultimately underpin safer business driving requirements.”

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