Your operator licence runs on several clocks at once, and only one of them sends you a reminder. Enter your dates and see all of them — the continuation fee, your declared inspection intervals, the 28-day notification rule, and whether your financial standing still covers your fleet.
↳ Your dates never leave your browser — the calculation runs locally and nothing you enter is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. We do count anonymous page views (cookieless, no personal data).
The checker is free and there's nothing to sign up for. It has one flaw: you have to remember to come back to it. So we're building O-Licence Watch, which starts by arriving on its own, before the deadline instead of after:
Your continuation fee falls due on 31 August 2027.
Also on your calendar this month: two vehicles due for safety inspection in week 34, and your transport manager's details were last confirmed in 2024.
One licence, one email. Reply STOP and it ends — no account to cancel.
↳ The reminder is the free half. The half worth paying for is what it nags you to do: file the evidence, so that when someone asks for it you have it.
You have to remember to come back to it, eleven months from now, on a date nobody is going to prompt you about. DVSA will email you a free MOT reminder. Nothing in the system reminds you about the continuation fee, your notification duties, or the inspection intervals you declared yourself.
A date in your head is not compliance. What a traffic commissioner asks for is the forward planner — the schedule of inspections you promised to keep — and then the proof each one actually happened.
So: enter your declared interval once and the planner builds itself, six months ahead, in ISO weeks. Each planned inspection waits for its record and its brake assessment — the method, whether it was laden, the report itself. Nothing counts as closed until someone has reviewed it and signed the roadworthy declaration, because that is the bit DVSA actually requires and the bit a folder of PDFs cannot do. Entries can't be edited afterwards; a correction is a new entry that supersedes the old one, so what you hand over is evidence rather than a filing cabinet you had access to. Reminders arrive before each inspection and before the continuation fee, and a 28-day countdown starts the moment you record a change. It exports as a pack, per vehicle or whole fleet, and it opens without us.
Built against DVSA's own list. The Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness sets out what a computerised maintenance system has to do — tamper-proof records, a clear end-to-end audit trail, hard copies on request, planning at least six months ahead. We didn't invent the requirements and we're not asking you to take our word for them.
£25/month, up to ten vehicles. No per-seat pricing and no minimum fleet size, which is the entire reason this exists: the tools built for this start at ten vehicles, and the average licence holds under six.
Your records stay yours. Full export, any time, in a format that opens without us. If Agentwrought ever shuts down — and it might, the terms are public — every operator gets their complete pack before it does. We will not be the only place your evidence lives.
It doesn't exist yet. We're measuring whether anyone wants it before building it, and this page is that measurement. The free checker above is real and finished; this is not. One thing we'd rather say now than after you've paid: driver defect reports aren't in the first version. They're a mandatory 15-month record too, so until they are, this covers your inspections and your planner — not every piece of paper an examiner might ask for.
The continuation fee doesn't suspend your licence. It ends it. Miss the five-yearly £401 and the licence terminates rather than lapsing into some recoverable state. Traffic commissioners have refused replacement applications from operators who lost a licence this way after fifteen years of trading, and have added director disqualifications on top. In at least one reported case a director had never once logged into the licensing system.
The 28-day clock starts when the change happens, not when you notice. A new director, a change of company name or shareholding, a transport manager leaving, a relevant conviction or an accepted fixed penalty — all of it must reach the traffic commissioner within 28 days of the event.
Your inspection interval is whatever you declared. It isn't a national standard you can look up. You set it when you applied, and you're then held to it — which is exactly why it's easy to forget what you promised.
It's a date calculator with the published intervals encoded, not legal advice, and not a substitute for the current guidance. Operator licensing changes, and traffic commissioners exercise judgement that no calculator can predict. Verify anything consequential against the operator licensing guide before acting on it.
It also can't tell you whether the inspection actually happened properly, whether your records would survive an audit, or whether your maintenance provider is doing what they invoiced for. A date is not compliance; evidence is.