Licence Check is to reveal a new free-to-use drivers’ CPC Hours feature within its DAVIS platform at the Great British Fleet Event this month.

The new CPC Hours feature within the DAVIS provides managers with easy-to-read dashboards showing actionable, summarised data, including advance warnings of drivers at risk of not completing training in time

The new feature allows fleet and transport managers to keep training records up to date and manage the risk around those drivers who may not complete the appropriate training in time.

Professional lorry, bus and coach drivers are required to complete a minimum of 35 hours of training every five years to maintain their Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC). But for fleets using spreadsheets to monitor training records, this can risk issues with user error, loss of data and the lack of a risk forecast.

The new CPC Hours feature within the award-winning DAVIS (Driver and Vehicle Information Solution) tackles this.

Free to all existing platform users, it provides managers with easy-to-read dashboards showing actionable, summarised data, including advance warnings of all drivers who are at risk of not completing their training within the required timeline.

Storing this information within DAVIS ensures that risk is managed more effectively as all information is contained in a single place. The system calculates when training is overdue and provides notifications and email alerts so that fleet and transport managers and other system users are made aware of upcoming risk and can take remedial action.

James Povah, product manager at Derby-based Licence Check, said: “Overall, the new feature provides a more accurate view of risk, with enhanced data now being added to the driver record  With warnings of upcoming CPC expiry highlighted on the system’s summary dashboard, DAVIS clients will have improved visibility of driver risk, ensuring that fleet and public safety is never compromised.”

The new functionality has been developed in response to customer feedback – the firm says that more than 1,000 of its current client base of 2,500 companies are likely to need to draw on it, including major players in the retail sector, logistics companies, transport providers and local authorities. All existing users of DAVIS simply have to make the functionality live in the system settings.

For new clients, it provides further proof of how DAVIS is being continuously developed to manage driving risk and road safety.

Licence Check managing director Keith Allen explained: “We believe we are one of very few, if not the only, driving risk management platform to offer this feature currently as part of an integrated driver licence management solution.

“With DAVIS, we have a superb system for identifying and managing driver risk, and we aim to expand and develop it to make it a more convenient and accessible proposition. CPC Hours is yet another example of that,” he said.

The CPC Hours feature is the latest addition to DAVIS, alongside the recently launched Driver Audit service, and will be demonstrated on the Licence Check stand at the Great British Fleet event.

Taking place on Tuesday 29 March 2022 at Novotel London West, Hammersmith, Fleet World’s GBFE event combines a three-in-one agenda of a comprehensive exhibition, insight-packed Masterclass conferences, and the afternoon’s Great British Fleet Awards.

To find out more about the Great British Fleet Event, click here, or to register for a free ticket, visit here.

You can also find out more information about the DAVIS platform on the Licence Check website.