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DAVIS Coaching reveals new functionality
Licence Check, the country’s leading licence checking and fleet risk management provider, has added new functionality to its innovative DAVIS Coaching module to give fleet managers greater insight into training course performance and strengths and weakness of their drivers.
At the same time, the company has revealed record figures for its award-winning DAVIS (Driver and Vehicle Information Solution) platform. The number of drivers recorded on the system had risen by 34% to over 930,000 and the number of licences checked was up by almost 20% to 1.411m in the 12 months to the end of 2024.
Derby-based Licence Check, part of the Ebbon Group, launched DAVIS Coaching, which is delivered by a dedicated driver app, just over a year ago to provide targeted online training for company drivers.
Since then it has added greater functionality, including more detailed dashboards which now show the average score and completion rate for each training module, highlighting those drivers which have been most proficient and those less so.
At the same time, additional reporting has been added to provide greater visibility of those courses which have been completed and the associated results, providing the ability to filter by driver type and course name.
Additional functionality currently being worked on by Licence Check developers will also include the option for fleet and risk managers to trigger ad hoc courses for an individual, specific types of drivers or by department to provide a more tailored approach to driver training.
DAVIS Coaching has been hugely successful since its launch, and in the past 12 months drivers of all categories have answered over 450,000 questions via the app, recording a ‘willingness to learn’ score of around 64%.
The best performing knowledge category in 2024 was ‘awareness’ while the question category answered incorrectly the most times in 2024 was ‘speeding’.
DAVIS Coaching is intended to create a community of better informed, engaged and, therefore, safer company drivers. Through the DAVIS Driver App, it delivers bite-sized educational content that is interactive and easily accessible for drivers at times that best suit them. A scheduling feature allows fleet or risk managers to select who to deliver the training to, when and how frequently.
Some 50% of the driver training courses are available by driver type and identifiable for those who drive company cars, vans, HGVs, PCVs or mini-buses so that managers can select the right training to suit the appropriate class and needs of the driver.
Licence Check believes that providing driver coaching in a continual way via easy to assimilate, bite-sized chunks via DAVIS Coaching is the best and most driver friendly method as drivers can complete their training remotely and access content at a time most convenient to them.
Licence Check Managing Director, Keith Allen, said: “These latest features will add to the already impressive, highly targeted functionality currently available through DAVIS Coaching, and will give fleet and other managers greater insight into the performance levels of their drivers, regardless of category.
“The type of training that DAVIS Coaching delivers – in bite-sized, easy to assimilate chunks – is the most effective means of improving driver attitude and behaviour with pinpoint accuracy, in our view.
“We are already working to increase the available features within DAVIS Coaching which we will unveil to the market over the coming months and will bring even greater depth,” he said.