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Electra House, Electra Way, Crewe, CW1 6GL,
t: 01270 509496 e: andrea.clegg@auriga-advocates.co.uk
Welcome to ODO Legal by Auriga Advocates - the latest innovation in Fleet Management.
Manage compliance and prosecutions in your company and fleet with almost zero effort? Reduce costs by pro-actively managing company and driver prosecutions.
Auriga Advocates can help you load your vehicles and drivers into ODO. Automatic compliance starts immediately with prompts for MOTs, RFL renewals, Services and driver licence checks at a monthly rate. In ODO legal this will include;
• Policy and Procedure Review (optional)
• Management of notice of intended prosecutions and S172 requests for driver information to the advantage of the company and the driver
• On receipt of Notice of Intended Prosecution verbal/written* advice to the company and driver
• Draft template letters of support for drivers facing disqualification before the courts*
• Written plea and mitigation to single justice procedure on behalf of the company or the driver*
• 20% discount off standard Auriga fees for representation at Court.
Easy as P11D
Using the data from ODO, we make many things easy to report on including regulatory and staff forms such as P11Ds. From over 35 million vehicle records, we make finding the right one as easy as entering the registration number.
Risk management isn’t a grey area
Driving can be a risky activity at the best of times and accidents will occasionally happen, even to
careful responsible drivers. As a business you need to know that people who are driving for you, even occasionally as part of their job, have roadworthy, properly insured vehicles. ODO is designed to help you stay on top of that grey fleet risk, so your drivers stay the right side of the law.
careful responsible drivers. As a business you need to know that people who are driving for you, even occasionally as part of their job, have roadworthy, properly insured vehicles. ODO is designed to help you stay on top of that grey fleet risk, so your drivers stay the right side of the law.
Clear and simple management
We have worked hard to deliver a simple interface and dashboard that gives you the most important information as soon as you log in.
Documents all in the right place
A fleet of vehicles and drivers generates a whole ecosystem of important documents that the fleet manager, business owner or driver may need to be able to access in a hurry. ODO is designed to help you store all those documents like insurance certificates, permits and VE103 forms against the vehicles and drivers that they relate to.
Access control
With ODO you can allow users access to their part of the system, such as the driver interface. From your dashboard you can request information and track who has complied with the request knowing they are only seeing their data.
Keep it in the family
So, you have a few company cars on your fleet, one car, one driver, right? How hard can it be? Well, if you give people company cars, are their husbands, wives, partners, significant others allowed to drive them too? If they are, you absolutely need to stay on top of who’s able to drive what, if only to cover yourself for insurance purposes. ODO is set up to make it really simple to see who is authorised to drive what vehicles and if they have a suitable, valid licence too.
Regain control over fuel, maintenance, buying and selling
Nothing has the potential to blow through money quite like a poorly managed fleet of vehicles and drivers. Whether it is old school fuel fraud, tyres being fitted to other people’s cars or garages over charging for services and repairs. ODO puts you in full control.
Fleet or driver and vehicle administration is made simple with ODO, Goodbye spreadsheet, Hello ODO One application to manage them all
As a professional fleet manager, you are fully aware of your responsibilities and all of the things your drivers need to be asked to provide. Similarly, as a professional, you will know that a spreadsheet and a bunch of unconnected file folders is a recipe for missing stuff. With ODO you take full control of your vehicles and drivers with everything in one secure, organised application. Proactive management of prosecutions from notice of intended prosecutions and S172 request for driver information. ODO legal manages notice of intended prosecutions and requests for driver information in a way which works to the advantage of the company and the driver. If appropriate Auriga will write representations * and can often nip any prosecution in the bud. This will save the company money and the driver who will often also avoid disqualification with all its ramifications on both the driver and the company.
Is your driver morale low?
Drivers facing a possible loss of livelihood as a result of a motoring offence are often so stressed that they cannot sleep due to the anxiety and often make more mistakes as a result. Failing to ensure that they have the best advice and support throughout their case is failing not only them as their employer but also the business which will suffer losses as a result of no representation or poor representation. Offering an early legal advice service to your drivers will boost morale, not only for those concerned but ensures other drivers feel supported when facing a motoring offence.
How can we help you to help your drivers?
At Auriga we represent everyone who drives for a living. Anyone driving a company vehicle should be offered a route to full legal services to ensure the best possible outcome in the event of a prosecution.
What are the results of not offering employees a legal solution?
• Drivers try to defend themselves often without success
• Drivers accept penalties unnecessarily
• Drivers are avoidably disqualified
• Drivers face serious avoidable penalties
The impact on your business;
• Loss of a valued employee
• Increased workload on remaining staff
• Increased stress related absences
• Cost of recruitment
• Cost of retraining.
All these negative impacts can be avoided by having a retained specialist motoring. We saved one company £25,000 on recruitment and training alone by ensuring their employee retained his licence. solicitor who can provide consistent and timely specialist advice to your staff.
Key Benefits of ODO Legal
• You will save money on your insurance, recruitment and absence from work
• You will remove risk of claims against your company if your insurance is rendered invalid due to a driver not declaring points/disqualification
• Your drivers will always be referred to a specialist solicitor who will get the best possible results for them
• You will enhance your reputation as a caring employer
• You will reduce your employee’s stress levels
• You will save time
• You will help to prevent reoccurrence
Faster and easier to use
Administering a fleet makes for lots of tedious requirements for accurate detail to be managed. Even if you have a relatively small fleet you can tie yourself up for hours tapping away at the keyboard just recording names and numbers. ODO will do that for you, just copy and paste registration numbers into our handy loader facility and ODO will run off and search the CAP and DVLA databases to fill in all the boring but essential details for your fleet
Never let a customer down Keep your fleet on schedule
If you own your vehicles or if you lease them, it is really important that you keep them serviced and maintained. They will run better, use less fuel and be more reliable if you do. Also, leasing companies get really upset and make additional charges if you return vehicles at end of contract that have missed services. Uniquely ODO contains the full CAP database, which means ODO automatically knows about service schedules, so if one of your vehicles needs an oil change, ODO will let you and your drivers know.
Never miss an MOT or Service
As the owner of a business you have enough things to deal with, with ODO you can tick fleet management off the list. ODO tells you all the important things you need to know about your vehicles and drivers and will send you timely notifications and reminders when stuff needs doing.
Are your drivers legal?
Not having a licence makes your insurance invalid and often, 6 points or more can invalidate your insurance, so use ODO legal to regularly check your drivers and ensure any risk to the public and your business is as low as possible. A company could face prosecution for causing a vehicle to be used without insurance and the driver for driving without insurance. Company Directors can have their licences endorsed for their drivers' misdemeanours in some cases. Two offences of causing a driver to drive without insurance would carry a minimum of 6 points per offence so a Director facing these would automatically be facing a disqualification under the totting up procedure ie 12 points or more. Simple reports on drivers and vehicles Quickly generate reports from ODO on drivers and/or vehicles. Our simple reporting tool allows you to export a range of the most commonly requested reports of fleets such as MOT and RFL dates through to the last time a driver’s licence was checked.
ODO Legal makes it simple
ODO legal allows you to delegate responsibilities on one platform. This simplifies the process and ensures vehicles are replaced efficiently and are managed from a common dashboard. Using current valuation data, you can see what your assets are worth and if you are paying too much for replacement nearly new assets. As a vehicle the owner the liability for fines and penalties is with you for some offences. Disposing and de-fleeting the vehicle quickly in ODO means that the new owner picks up the fine or penalty rather than you. It is the only platform in the UK which offers a platform to proactively manage prosecutions to the benefit of both the company and the drivers. By prompt response in writing to the prosecuting authority prosecutions can be avoided, disqualifications reduced and drivers kept on the road. This saves on costs of
- Absent employees due to stress and court attendance
- Recruitment and training to replace drivers who have been disqualified and subsequently lose their employment
- Fines against the company or points endorsed on a Directors driving licence.
ODO App Does It All
Extending service and support, ODO’s Mobile Driver App is a free of charge driver management tool. It can support accurate business mileage recording, accident management, vehicle inspections and driver alerts.
- Standard Driver App available free on Android and IOS
- Secure Driver Login
- View vehicle details allocated to the driver
- Record manual odometer readings
- Record fuel transactions and upload photo of the receipt
- Track business and personal trips
- Record accident details and upload photos, notifications sent to the Fleet Manager
- Perform vehicle inspection*, record damage and faults, notifications sent to the Fleet Manager
- In-app messaging with the Fleet Manager Real-time updating in ODO, with offline capability
- Record prosecution documents, police tickets upload evidence in defence of a motoring offence.
ODO Telematics
Connected-in vehicle feedback is the key to improved driver safety, financial savings and sustainability. With ODO Telematics we bring to our application the ability to realise these benefits.
- Driver Safety - Monitoring driving characteristics improves driver and third-party safety by changing behaviour and reducing equipment failure
- ODO Connected Fleet Management
- Save on Costs - From the obvious like fuel to the not so obvious like insurance, ODO helps you change behaviour and maximise fleet efficiency • Customer Experience - Knowing where your vehicle is can help improve service delivery by getting the closest driver to your customer and updating arrival data • Greener Fleet - An efficient fleet is a greener fleet that saves money and is better for the local and global environment
- Customer Experience - Knowing where your vehicle is can help improve service delivery by getting the closest driver to your customer and updating arrival data • Greener Fleet - An efficient fleet is a greener fleet that saves money and is better for the local and global environment
- Greener Fleet - An efficient fleet is a greener fleet that saves money and is better for the local and global environment
