No operator licence, no CPC, no tachograph. Also, usually, no one whose job this is.

Van fleets are where licence checking quietly stops happening. There is no operator licence to put at risk, no Traffic Commissioner, no inspection rhythm to hang the task off — and so no natural owner for it. The drivers are frequently not drivers by job title at all. They are engineers, installers, surveyors, delivery staff: people for whom a licence is a prerequisite of the job rather than the job itself, and whose licence was last actually looked at on their first day.

What you need to know is genuinely short. Is the entitlement there. Have the points moved. Has the photocard expired — which happens every ten years regardless of the entitlement behind it, and is the single most common thing found on a van fleet being checked properly for the first time. Is the vehicle taxed and in MOT.

The difficulty is scale and repetition, not complexity. A hundred drivers across six depots is not hard to check once. It is hard to check again three months later, to keep checking as people join and leave, and to still be able to demonstrate eighteen months afterwards that a particular driver was checked before a particular journey. Putting each depot or division into its own group, on its own schedule, is usually what makes that survivable.