Driving Monitor has launched an eConsent system for driving licence checks in the UK, replacing the need for a traditional paper mandate.

The launch follows a period of development and proposals presented to the DVLA in Swansea.

Kevin Curtis, managing director of Driving Monitor said: “Our customers can benefit from a paperless route to driving licence checking thus saving them a huge amount of time and expense.

"A lot of our customers have workers based in the field using tablet devices and smartphones. Getting to a printer to print a mandate, sign it and then get to a fax machine or scanner (or even to a postbox) to return a piece of paper has been a bugbear of our clients for many years. This new advance is the first system on the market to offer this new digital process in a really smart and efficient manner.”

The eConsent service has also been integrated with ePass - Driving Monitor's electronic permit and safety system, combined with a DVLA licence check, which gives a driver authorisation to drive.

A manager gets a full view of the driver's consent for licence checks and can see all employees who are eligible to drive on company business.

Drivers also get full visibility of their own licence consent status and can update this at any point, revoking their consent and opting out of driving on company business.

Driving Monitor will be developing the eConsent system to work alongside the new DVLA realtime licence checking service which is due to go live on a Beta service early 2015.