A company car driver banned for 16 years was identified to his employer following licence checks undertaken by ALD Automotive.

ALD said it is the worst case of disqualification it has seen since it introduced its DriveSafe licence checking service five years ago and the worst ever recorded by the Licence Bureau, the contract hire and leasing company’s licence checking partner, since it was established in 2003.

The unnamed driver received four, four-year driving bans in the space of 16 weeks from the courts. Two four-year bans for drink-driving were followed by two separate incidents of driving whilst disqualified and a number of other related offences such as supplying false details and driving without insurance.

The courts imposed the bans to run concurrently, which means they expire in November 2013. The employee previously received a 12-month driving ban in 2002.

“The driver had one previous conviction for drink-driving in 2002 but no other offences recorded when we first checked him in 2009. However, subsequent checks across the year, as part of the service provided for ALD’s DriveSafe risk management solution, uncovered a different story," said Malcolm Maycock, of the Licence Bureau.

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