How often should you check driver licences? UK fleet practice

A one-off licence check at induction and a hope for the best isn't a policy, it's a liability waiting to surface at the worst possible moment - after a crash, when an insurer or the police start asking what your process actually was. FleetCheck sets out what proper verification looks like, and the gap between that and common practice is where the risk sits.

The core obligation is straightforward: employers running drivers on the road carry a duty-of-care responsibility to confirm those drivers are legally entitled to be there, and that entitlement can change without an employer ever finding out. A driver banned or endorsed after their last check is still turning up for work unless someone is actually looking. Good practice means checking at the right frequency, not just at onboarding, and having a documented process to point to rather than a vague assurance that "someone checks these" FleetCheck.

Why this matters: if you can't produce a documented record of who checks licences, how often, and what happens when a change is flagged, that's a gap worth closing now, not after a claim lands. Audit who checks, how often, and whether it's actually recorded - not assumed.