Progress on online Drivers Licence share

With the changes to the counterpart drivers licence and the effect it has when hiring a vehicle, the DVLA are working on an online solution to allow a person to fill in a form and download and print their own version which avoids the exorbitant telephone charges they are otherwise faced with to confirm the details.

This is a mock up of how the solution will potentially look.....click here to view and/or download a PDF

***** Update *****

The BVSF have received confirmation that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will not now be abolishing the Driving Licence paper counterpart on 1st January 2015 as first reported.

Instead, we are advised that the driving licence counterpart will be abolished at some point in 2015. An appropriate date is currently under consideration and will be announced in due course.

The counterpart, which has been around since 1998, is being axed as part of the Government's drive to reduce red tape and bureaucracy.

It became very clear that rushing the abolition of the paper counterpart before the DVLA was ready with a real-time driver checking service was going to cause huge disruption and may well have resulted in consumers having to pay to have their own driving licence details verified when, for example, renting a vehicle.