What is eConsent?
Driving Monitor has removed the need to rely on paper-based methods for acquiring driver eConsent on driving licence checks. With our eConsent process, we have developed an online consent system designed to allow drivers to consent to their licence being checked via an online consent process – rather than the old paper D796 mandate.
No more paper!
Traditionally, an employer would need a signed paper mandate (known as a D796 form) which needs the driver’s signature to approve the DVLA data check. This form would then need to be sent back to a licence checking provider such as Driving Monitor, and only then can the licence check take place. Driving Monitor has developed a solution which has been approved by the DVLA to allow this process to happen online.
This brings many advantages to any organisation with more than a handful of employees who would drive on company business:
- No need to get to a printer to print & sign a paper mandate
- No need to then have to return this mandate via post, fax or email
- No need for the signature on the mandate to be matching a DVLA licence version
- No need for a human to manually check the mandate for errors and then process this
- No need to chase drivers where errors have occurred, or handwriting is illegible or a mandate has not been dated
- No need to wait for Royal Mail to deliver a mandate, which can take days
eConsent works with Driving Monitor’s ePass system
The eConsent process for signing online to approve a licence check also works hand in hand with Driving Monitor’s ePass system for driver safety. This means that when a driver consents to have their licence checked, they are entered into the ePass process for checking their validity to drive on company business.
ePass checks a driver’s validity to drive using:
- A driving licence check with automated re-checks
- A tax, Insurance and MOT check
- A driver risk assessment
- A vehicle check
- Accidents analysed
- Telematics data scored for safety
- Driver Policy documents signed online
- eLearning deployed and up-to-date
This gives company managers a powerful system to pull all these processes together under one roof and have a live up-to-the-minute ePass system in place to check driver’s validity to drive on company business.
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