Licence Bureau can check all your employee’s driver licence credentials.

To licence check all your employees, request a quote here

We check driver licences on your businesses behalf so ensuring drivers that you cause or permit to drive for your business have the correct credentials to legally drive.

Simply complete the request a quote now and see how easy it is to become compliant.

 

Understand your employees unique driver licence number

Each licence holder in England, Scotland and Wales has a unique driver number, which is 16 characters long. The characters are constructed in the following way:

  •  1–5: The first five characters of the surname (padded with 9s if less than 5 characters)
  •  6: The decade digit from the year of birth (e.g. for 1987 it would be 8)
  •  7–8: The month of birth (7th character incremented by 5 if driver is female i.e. 51–62 instead of 01–12)
  •  9–10: The date within the month of birth
  •  11: The year digit from the year of birth (e.g. for 1987 it would be 7)
  •  12–13: The first two initials of the first names, padded with a 9 if no middle name
  •  14: Arbitrary digit – usually 9, but decremented to differentiate drivers with the first 13 characters in common
  •  15–16: Two computer check digits.
  •  17–18: Appended, two digits representing the licence issue, which increases by 1 for each licence issued.

Each Northern Ireland licence holder has a unique driver number which is 8 characters long. The characters are not constructed in any particular pattern.