Adler & Allan reduces risk of huge fleet more effectively thanks to DAVIS
Environmental risk reduction specialist, Adler & Allan, reduces the risk on its own fleet by checking the driving licences of over 1,000 fleet drivers with increased efficiency, accuracy and transparency, thanks to Licence Check’s market-leading and award-winning risk management platform DAVIS (Driver and Vehicle Information Solutions).
Harrogate-based Adler & Allan, which provides environmental services to organisations across the UK, helping them reduce risk and prepare for a Net-Zero future. operates over 1,000 cars, vans, hgvs and plant on its central fleet.
These include around 220 cars, 96 of them EVs, over 500 lcvs and 50 hgvs, plus sundry pieces of plant and equipment, while 18 subsidiary companies across the UK currently have their own managed fleets.
To meet corporate duty of care obligations in such a large, disparate business, the constant checking, monitoring and validating of drivers’ licences could be a mammoth administrative task – especially as licence checks are carried out every three months for all drivers.
Yet, the use of DAVIS has made the task straightforward, allowing the continual monitoring of all drivers, including newcomers and leavers, and acting as a welcome filter for the HR department in terms of driver recruitment and employment.
Group Fleet Administration Manager, Steve Madeley, explained: “We currently have over 2,000 drivers across the extended Group and the current plan is to migrate them all onto DAVIS over time.
“We have a compact fleet team of three and, at the moment, have 1,050 drivers on the system. However, DAVIS makes the management of their licences very easy and straightforward for us.
“The use of DAVIS allows us to accurately monitor and assess all potential new drivers joining the business, and we recommend that any with over six points on their licence are not recruited. We are also able to identify any drivers with previous drink-drive convictions and flag them up to help assess what potential impact these may have with insurers.
“The platform allows us to easily identify such individuals and suggest or make the appropriate management interventions. We rate all drivers as low, medium or high risk and currently have 29 high risk drivers on our fleet, information we are easily able to obtain from DAVIS reporting.
“Having this level of transparency and detail proves very beneficial when negotiating with our insurers,” he added.
Licence Check managing director, Keith Allen, commented: “As with all fleets of this size, the use of DAVIS reduces what would otherwise be a huge administrative task into one that is readily manageable, especially for what is quite a compact fleet team at Adler & Allan.
“The ongoing evolution of DAVIS means that we are constantly refining and updating the platform to help fleet managers manage their drivers’ licences in a more cost and time effective manner, meeting duty of care obligations, reducing risk and creating a clear and transparent picture for insurers.
“Our ongoing objective is to continue to further develop DAVIS, with a range of modules and enhancements, from what was originally known as a pure licence checking operation to a comprehensive fleet management offering for car and van fleet operators. The feedback we get from fleet manager users is that they really value our developments in this direction,” he added.