Articles
Reference pieces on driving licences and the checking of them. They are written to answer the question rather than to sell anything: if you arrived here from a search for what the codes on the back of a licence mean, the codes are in the article.
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Understanding the D906 form
What the D906/ADD declaration authorises, how long consent lasts, what happens when it expires, and how to get your own driving record if that is why you came.
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Why employers must regularly check their drivers’ licences
The two Acts that create the duty, the seven things a check verifies, what records to keep, and why fifty drivers on a quarterly cycle is 200 checks a year.
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Your UK driving licence number explained
Every character decoded, position by position, with a worked example, including the two extra digits that appear in some systems but not on the card.
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The back of a UK driving licence
The category table, the dates beside each entitlement, and what the numbered codes mean, including the one that stops a driver working for payment.
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Licence checks: more than just a legal obligation
The three cards a professional driver must hold, and what checking is worth beyond compliance: insurance renewals, negligence claims, and drivers themselves.
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About the review dates
These are evergreen reference articles carried over from the previous version of this site, and we do not hold their original publication dates. Rather than show an invented one, the date against each is the date its content was last checked for accuracy, which is the more useful thing to know about a reference article in any case.
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