Licence Check has announced record results for its DAVIS (Driver and Vehicle Information Solution) platform while also enhancing its DAVIS Coaching module with new functionality.
The Derby-based licence checking and fleet risk management provider reported that the number of drivers recorded on its DAVIS system rose by 34% in 2024, reaching more than 930,000. Over the same time period, the number of licences checked soared almost 20% to 1.41 million.
The business, part of the Ebbon Group, has also further enhanced its DAVIS Coaching solution. Launched just over a year ago to provide targeted online training for company drivers and delivered by a dedicated driver app, the system has now gained greater functionality.
This includes 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.
Licence Check developers are also working on new capabilities that will 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.
Keith Allen, Licence Check managing director, 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.”
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.
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.
The success of its approach is shown by driver feedback. 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’.
Keith Allen added: “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 outlined.
