How to find out the date of issue of the first driver's license in the RSA in 2021

Unfortunately, due to their legal illiteracy, many motorists overpay for insurance several times over. One person included in a document can increase its value by 9 times. According to confirmed data, every second driver overpays about 5,000 rubles a year due to their own ignorance or fraudulent actions of the insurance company.

In order to know and understand exactly what exactly you are paying for and what the amount should be, you need to be able to correctly calculate your own driving experience. We will analyze all the nuances of this operation and other important aspects in the article.

How is driving experience calculated?

When calculating the cost of compulsory motor liability insurance, several points are taken into account, one of which is driving experience. To calculate it, two main parameters are used: BMC (bonus-malus coefficient) and KVS (age-experience coefficient).

Calculating the FAC parameter is quite simple; to do this, you need to calculate how many full years have passed since the actual receipt of rights. It’s easy to find out the information - this data can be found in column 14, on the back of the driver’s license.

The length of service is considered continuous; the period of deprivation of license or when you simply did not drive a car does not need to be subtracted from the total. At the same time, if you discover a new category, then the length of service in it will be counted from the date of receipt. The applications for calculating such length of service are clearly stated in instruction No. 3384-U.

Calculating the KBM for compulsory motor liability insurance is a more complicated matter. It is determined anew every year, taking into account the value that was assigned last time and the number of emergencies and insured events over the last 365 days.

If during the year during which the contract was valid, no accidents or other unpleasant situations were registered, then the driver’s class increases by 1 point, and the coefficient decreases by 0.05.

If there was an accident, and the insured driver was found to be at fault, then his class at the end of the year is reduced, based on a special table, depending on the number of similar situations. It turns out that during the period of driving, the driver’s level can be repeatedly lowered and increased, depending on his driving skills.

How does driving experience affect your driving record?

OSAGO insurance is mandatory, but the cost of insurance sometimes leads to bewilderment. Even more surprising to some will be the fact that for the same model of car it will vary significantly among different owners.

The fact is that when calculating it, several parameters are used, depending on various factors. One of them is driving experience. Moreover, compulsory insurance uses two separate coefficients associated with it.

The first of them also takes into account the age of the driver. I’ll say right away that it is important only for beginners in driving. For most motorists, it does not affect how much money they will have to pay for the next policy.

The second indicator has a greater impact on the cost of the vehicle, and is needed by all motorists without exception. It has its own peculiarity - it takes into account not just the period during which you had the right to drive, but also the presence/absence of accidents with your participation during this time. As you probably guessed, we are talking about the bonus-malus coefficient (BMC).

The influence of total length of service on the concluded MTPL agreement

Its correct name is KVS (age and experience coefficient).

Previously, many drivers drove without insurance, and in the event of a car accident, they quickly ordered compulsory motor insurance in electronic format using a smartphone.

Now such a possibility is excluded. The E-policy also becomes valid only 72 hours after registration.

Additional payment for errors in the electronic policy

Ordering an e-policy yourself is associated with the risk of errors when maintaining data.

And this, in turn, leads to an unreasonable reduction in the cost of insurance. Previously, such inaccuracies were discovered during legal proceedings, and the contract was declared unconcluded. As a result, the victims were left without compensation.

After the amendments are made, the insurance company is required to make payments, but can compensate them by issuing recourse claims to the culprit who provided inaccurate data. If the error is discovered before the insured event occurs, the car owner only needs to make adjustments and pay the difference in amount.

Amendments to the e-policy order procedure

The procedure for obtaining compulsory insurance in electronic format has undergone changes after the entry into force of Bank of Russia Decree No. 4723-U dated February 15, 2018. From now on, car owners need to know that:

the electronic signature must contain certain characters: if letters, then the Latin alphabet, if numbers, then Arabic (the entire volume of characters cannot exceed 10);
You cannot create more than one account on the insurance company page with the same contact information;
scanned documentation must be attached to the application no later than 3 hours after account registration;
the papers must meet certain requirements specified by the insurer.

Increasing the “cooling period”

Since the beginning of 2021, new amendments have been made to the insurance rules. Thanks to such changes, the policy owner can cancel the document within 14 days.

How to find out your driving class

Quite often there are cases when the bonus-malus coefficient has deviations or does not correspond to reality at all. The fact is that all data in the main database is entered manually by employees and taken from there during registration.

But, taking into account the human factor, this may be done untimely or not done at all. That is why it is so important to understand how to find out your driving experience.

Many conscientious insurance companies do not try to hide the driver’s class at all, and on the contrary, they write it into the policy itself, in the “Special Notes” column. The next time, visiting the insurance company, the driver himself understands whether this figure will increase or decrease.

Those drivers who do not have this mark, but still need to find out their driving experience for compulsory motor liability insurance, will only need an Internet connection. You can use email and simply send a request in free form on the RSA website.

But in the RSA database you can find out more important information, namely, the KBM index, which has a greater impact on the cost of insurance.

Go to the “” section on our website, which any user of our website has access to. It is from this database that all insurance companies take information, it is uniform, and contains all the data about motorists starting from 2011.

From what point is driving experience considered for compulsory motor insurance 2021?

Does driving experience matter when applying for insurance?

Thus, it is only taken into account up to a certain point:

Drivers under 23 years of age are initially at risk. If the driver's license was obtained relatively recently (three years are used for calculation), use 1.8. Motorists who are 22 years old are sometimes lucky

Important

To do this, you need to take care of obtaining a driving experience for more than three years. The coefficient is 1.6.

Motorists who are 23 years old have the right to accumulate 3 years of experience

To calculate compulsory motor liability insurance in their case, use 1.7.

The unit is used for those who have already turned 23 years old with a recorded 3 years of driving experience.

It is these four options that are used to calculate numerous MTPL insurance policies. Despite such a small variation, the cost of MTPL insurance for a beginner increases by 80 percent.

Attention

What should those who do not have KBM insurance do? Everything is quite simple here. All that is required is an Internet connection and access to a special automated system, AIS OSAGO, to which every person is allowed.

This is a single information database, common for all insurers without exception. This database contains all information on concluded automobile insurance contracts starting from 2011. Here is a more accurate algorithm of actions: in order to find out the personal coefficient of the Malus bonus, you need to know how to find out your driving experience in the RSA database:

You need to go to the RSA website in the appropriate section.
Enter the personal data of the driver whose class you want to check.

We calculate the age and length of service coefficient for the compulsory motor insurance policy

Incentive for accident-free driving In the process of applying the malus bonus coefficient under consideration, only the accident-free driving record will be taken into account. Insurance, which is firmly established in life, is designed to protect the property and other interests of citizens

In particular, types of car insurance allow you to compensate for damage incurred in road accidents. As part of the requirements of Federal Law No. 40 of April 25, 2002, driver liability insurance (MTPL) is mandatory. The policy is issued annually, its cost is determined by many parameters, including the driving experience of motorists. How driving experience is considered for compulsory motor liability insurance, how age and experience affect compulsory motor liability insurance, as well as answers to other questions are revealed in the material below

Insurance, which has become firmly established in life, is designed to protect the property and other interests of citizens. In particular, types of car insurance allow you to compensate for damage incurred in road accidents. As part of the requirements of Federal Law No. 40 of April 25, 2002, driver liability insurance (MTPL) is mandatory. The policy is issued annually, its cost is determined by many parameters, including the driving experience of motorists. How driving experience is considered for compulsory motor liability insurance, how age and experience affect compulsory motor liability insurance, as well as answers to other questions are revealed in the material below.

What is KBM in OSAGO

Now let's take a closer look at what the KBM parameter is and how to calculate it.

The KBM parameter represents a certain period during which the driver never had an accident and did not use insurance. The countdown begins from the moment when compulsory motor liability insurance began to be issued in our country, that is, from July 2003. If for almost 15 years you have never been in an accident due to your own fault, you should be assigned class 13 KBM, which is equal to 0.5. This significantly reduces the cost of insurance.

In order to find out your own KBM, you need:

Enter the full name of the driver whose details we want to check.
We write down the date for which we are interested in knowing the indicator.
We confirm the security code to confirm that you are a real person and not a robot.
The system immediately provides complete information about the driver’s class for the requested date, as well as data on the previous contract.

When all the information is known, it is much easier to control the work of an insurance company employee.

How does experience affect the cost of insurance?

Of course, experience has a direct impact on the cost of compulsory motor insurance. To calculate the cost, the base rate is taken as a basis, to which different coefficients are applied. Let's look at them in more detail:

Novice drivers who have not yet turned 22 years old and do not have driving experience or if it has not reached the threshold of 3 years will have a rate of 1.8, which is 80% of the rate. If by this age the motorist has already driven for 3 years, then the rate will be 1.6, which is only 60% of the declared value.
Those who are over 22 years old, but have less than three years of driving experience, will have to pay 70%, coefficient 1.7. And those who are over 22 years of age and have been driving for more than 3 years will have an indicator of 1 (0%).

It is precisely because of such a serious difference in price that you need to approach the inclusion of a driver in insurance very carefully. Otherwise, its cost will increase significantly, and you will lose money.

Drawing a conclusion from everything said above, we can confidently say that a person under 22 years of age and without driving experience will pay 70-80% more for insurance than an older and more experienced driver.

Important aspects

There are a number of important aspects that you will need to familiarize yourself with in advance. First of all, this concerns the driver’s experience coefficient. Since the longer the experience, the lower the coefficient will be.

For 2021, things are as follows:

Number in order	Age and total experience of the driver	The size of the coefficient itself
1	until the age of 22 and less than 3 years of experience	1.8
2	age over 22 years, experience – up to 3 years	1.7
3	up to 22 years old, total experience exceeds 3 years	1.6
4	over 22 years old, total experience exceeds 3 years	1

In certain cases, the cost of the policy may increase by more than 2 times if the length of service is incorrectly indicated.

That is why it is important for the driver to understand in advance the process of determining the length of service and the cost of the MTPL policy.

How to avoid overpayment

When taking out an MTPL policy, most of the overpayments are associated precisely with the imposition of additional services and features, for which you need to pay a little extra.

If you also find yourself in such a situation, then you should not be upset or nervous. First, demand that you be provided with the law itself, or references to it, where it is stated that the insurance company has the right to act in this way. Not a single legal act states that car insurance is issued only when insuring the life of the driver.

Tell the company employee that in order to avoid controversial situations, all your communications will be recorded on the phone. This method works almost flawlessly, because all employees know that, by law, they do not have the right to refuse you. This is stated in 15.34.1 of the Code of the Russian Federation. The same article provides for punishment in the form of a fine of 50,000 rubles for an unjustified refusal to carry out the procedure.

If such violations have occurred, you need to file a complaint on the Bank of Russia website or one of its branches.

Here are some more practical tips:

Check your current status in the AIS RSA in advance.
Using an online calculator, you can very easily calculate the cost of a “car insurance” before visiting the insurance company. This way you will be ready to hear a certain number. And if the stated amount is overestimated, confidently prove its unreasonableness.
Do not forget that there are a number of cases in which the BMC is reset to zero. Do everything possible to prevent them from happening.

If you know all these little secrets, the insurance employee will not be able to deceive you or sell additional unnecessary services by increasing the amount.

How accident-free driving is encouraged

In addition to driving experience, the number of accidents or accidents in which the car has been involved in the last estimated period of time is also taken into account. Driving experience is taken into account to calculate the discount for driving without accidents. The period of time starting from the summer of 2003, when compulsory motor liability insurance appeared in our country, is taken into account.

If over the entire period you have never found yourself in unpleasant situations associated with accidents, then your KBM indicator, as we wrote earlier, should be equal to 0.5. Then it all depends on whether you were found guilty, how many times a year you got into accidents and how difficult they were.

If one of the people who can drive the vehicle has a low class, and the number of accidents is high, it will be more profitable to conclude an insurance contract without restrictions. In this case, anyone can drive a car, but only the owner’s driving experience without an accident will be taken into account.

Verification of a driver's license is considered a fairly popular procedure today. Many motorists double-check their licenses, but most often this is necessary in situations where, for example, a person is hired as a driver. Some people resort to forgery of documentation, in particular when there has been deprivation of rights. For this reason, the question of how this procedure is carried out, and whether it is possible to check rights in the traffic police database by last name, remains quite serious for most people.

Driver age coefficient

You can find out your own age-experience coefficient (AEC) yourself if you use a special table that looks something like this:

It will be useful for all drivers to know that this value will not be taken into account when calculating insurance prices for:

transport owned by legal entities;
trailers of various types.

Insurance companies are willing to explain which FIC indicator will be used in situations where several drivers are included in the compulsory motor liability insurance policy, rather than just one. According to them, the highest FAC coefficient of those people who will actually drive the insured vehicle is taken into account. It is precisely in order to make such calculations that it is very important to know as accurately as possible the date of issue of the first driver’s license.

It should be noted that there are also insurance companies that offer MTPL contracts for their clients, in which the circle of people allowed to drive vehicles, such as a car or bus, is absolutely not limited. In such a situation, they constantly set the minimum age-experience coefficient equal to one.

Last name check online

If you go to the main service of the Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate at https://www.gibdd.ru/check/driver/#, you can see that to carry out the procedure you need to know the series and number of the driver’s license, the date of issue. That is, it is impossible to check a driver’s license on the Internet using the traffic police database by last name online.

Of course, there may be resources on the Internet that promise to find and double-check documentation only by last name, but in reality this is almost impossible to do, so the reliability of the information provided is not guaranteed.

Check at the traffic police

Naturally, with the help of the traffic police we can completely resolve this issue. But you will have to show the authorities the grounds for verification. But just a surname will not be enough, since there are quite a lot of people with the same surname, and this is obvious. If you provide the region and date of birth, the region where the license was issued, then you will be able to find the driver’s license number by last name. Upon an official justified request, you will receive a response within thirty days.

In the situations described above, when checking the driver's license is necessary, you can look at this paper. If you need to use not the paper itself, but an extract, then you need to enter the number, series and time of issue of the certificate into it.

Using this information, you will find out almost all the required data from the traffic police service. If in response you receive a notification that nothing was found, then the document is fake, invalid, or a new DP has been provided.

If everything is normal, you will find out the owner’s date of birth, issue period, categories and validity period. But the last name will not be named.

If the owner of the document is deprived of the right to drive a vehicle, this will be indicated in the response. You will also find out the place of birth, the time of deprivation, and the period for which the person was deprived of documents.

To be able to travel by car, its owner must undergo training and obtain a driver's license. However, the document can be used by the driver not only as a means of confirming the availability of permission to drive a car. A driver's license has a unique number. It allows you to obtain up-to-date information about the owner of the document. To do this, you can check your driver’s license using the traffic police database online.

Experts advise periodically checking the status of your driver's license. Driving in a car without a driver's license is a serious violation, which is punishable by a monetary penalty. Its size depends on the degree of offense. We’ll talk further about the specifics of performing a search in the state traffic police database, the service used to obtain up-to-date information, and the procedure for identifying the status of a driver’s license.

Finding data by driver's license number is not difficult. However, carrying out the manipulation requires familiarization with certain information. Thus, information verification is carried out through the official website of the traffic police. A person must be able to use the service.

Search through the traffic police website

Today, it is not difficult to find the information you are interested in using your driver’s license code. To perform the manipulation, you do not need to have specific information about searching for data on the Internet. Just follow the system prompts.

To check your driver’s license using the traffic police database online, you have to perform the following steps:

Visit the traffic police website.
Select "Services".
Review the list that appears and begin checking the driver.
Wait for the online form to appear. When the information window is displayed, you need to enter the details of the driver’s license that the person wants to check.
To make sure that the information has been entered without errors and to send a request, click on the appropriate button.

The driver's last name is not used for searching on the traffic police website. All you need is your VU number. The system will automatically enter the entered information and display the citizen’s driver’s license information on the screen. Completing the check will allow you to obtain information about your driving license. The list of information will include the date of issue of the document. The system allows you to identify the authenticity of a driver's license.

The driver's license is valid:

The driver's license is not valid:

Deprivation of the right to drive:

A person will be able to find out information about decisions that suspend the license to drive a vehicle. The data obtained will help you find out about the driver’s participation in an accident.

To find information on a document series, it is better to use only the official traffic police service. This minimizes the likelihood of encountering scammers.

The traffic police database contains the validity periods of decisions suspending a driver’s license. After familiarizing yourself with them, the car owner will be able to find out the period when he will again be able to freely go out on the road behind the wheel of his car.

Traffic police website

The fastest and easiest way to find out the start date of your driving experience by driver's license number is to visit the traffic police website.

Go to the “Services”/ “VU” section.

In the window that appears, fill in all fields.

To find out the number and series of your old driver's license, you need to select: “Request verification.”

As a result, a window will appear with the following content:

Searching by last name on the traffic police website is not carried out - this is a violation of confidentiality rights.

Search by driver's license number

If a driver's license is checked using the traffic police database using the document number, the system will provide information about the rights to drive a car. However, if the car number is known, the list of possibilities will expand - a person will be able to check the list of issued fines.

It will not be possible to check fines using the traffic police website. But you can find the necessary data using a driver’s license. To perform the action, you must use the capabilities of other services, one of which is presented below:

Is it worth checking your driver's license using the traffic police database?

If there is a possibility that the license could be suspended, it is necessary to conduct a search and check the driver for deprivation of rights. The manipulation must be carried out at the moment of suspicion.

If you do not check your driver's license information through the state traffic police website, the driver can expect the following negative consequences:

a citizen stopped on the road without a driver’s license will be subject to a fine of 500 rubles,
if a citizen whose license has been suspended drove a car without a driver’s license, he will be fined 30,000 rubles or arrested for 15 days,
If the owner of the car has provided access to control the vehicle to a driver who has been deprived of his license, the fine will be 30,000 rubles.

The date when the first driver's license was issued is information that in most cases only a new driver remembers.

Few motorists remember the first time they got behind the wheel and received a license.

Especially in cases where the length of service is calculated over years, and the certificate has been changed more than once.

All documents indicate only the year of receipt of the license, but how can you find out the date of issue of the first driver’s license in the RSA if complete information is required.

The date, month and year of the start of your driving experience must be indicated when you independently apply for an MTPL policy via the Internet. The electronic form for issuing compulsory insurance policies requires an exact period for issuing rights.

This information in itself is not particularly important for registration of compulsory motor liability insurance, because in the policy in any case only the year of the start of the experience will be entered. But the electronic system is programmed with just such an algorithm, where the date, month and year must be entered.

If you skip this information, the system will simply throw an error and ask you to fill out the fields completely. In the questionnaire, you can indicate the driver’s approximate length of service, but this may affect the cost of insurance. It is calculated based on the number of years of experience.

Only those drivers who have quite a lot of experience will not overpay. And for beginners, every month plays a role, so even a small mistake can significantly change the cost of the insurance policy.

Questions about how to find out the start date of driving experience do not arise only for those road users who received their license for the first time. Since the beginning of their service is identical to the date of issue of the license.

Problems arise for motorists who have already changed their license.

Insurance companies claim that it is not necessary to know the exact date of issue; this will not affect in any way if the citizen has already exchanged his rights.

In any case, the driver’s age-experience coefficient, which has a direct impact on the components of the cost of insurance, will be equal to one.

Thus, it is very important to know the date of receipt of the first driver’s license for motorists who relatively recently acquired a driver’s license and replaced the document due to the loss or change of surname.

The age-experience coefficient of the driver depends on this, which affects the price of the MTPL policy.

Why do we need information about the date of issue of the first license?

The date, month and year of the start of your driving experience must be indicated when you independently apply for an MTPL policy via the Internet. The electronic form for issuing compulsory insurance policies requires an exact period for issuing rights.

This information in itself is not particularly important for registration of compulsory motor liability insurance, because in the policy in any case only the year of the start of the experience will be entered. But the electronic system is programmed with just such an algorithm, where the date, month and year must be entered .

Only those drivers who have quite a lot of experience will not overpay. And for beginners, every month plays a role, so even a small mistake can significantly change the cost of the insurance policy.

Questions about how to find out the start date of driving experience do not arise only for those road users who received their license for the first time. Since the beginning of their service is identical to the date of issue of the license.

Problems arise for motorists who have already changed their license.

Insurance companies claim that it is not necessary to know the exact date of issue; this will not affect in any way if the citizen has already exchanged his rights.

In any case, the driver’s age-experience coefficient, which has a direct impact on the components of the cost of insurance, will be equal to one.

The age-experience coefficient of the driver depends on this, which affects the price of the MTPL policy.

Several ways to find out the date of issue of your first driver's license

There are several ways to find the date of issue of the first driver's license:

Using a driver's card.
By making a request for information from the traffic police.
By making a request for the necessary data in RSA.

The driver’s personal card is issued to him

. In it you can find information about the owner of the car, including the place and time of the exam, as well as the date the license was issued. A personal card is of great benefit to the driver if it is always in the car.

But old-style documents were always issued in paper form. Therefore, for motorists with extensive experience, they have long been unusable or simply lost, since the driver’s card is not included in the list of mandatory documents, no one really cares about it.

The date of receipt of a driver's license can be found at the traffic police upon request. This is done directly on the website - https://tt.gibdd.ru in the “Services” section.

Here you can also check fines, find information about cars and deprivation of rights. This system is very convenient and simple even for those who rarely use the Internet.

Information can be found quickly and without problems. The downside is that the database is inaccessible if there is no mobile or computer Internet nearby.

On the official website of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate you can find out the date of issue of the first driver's license by number and series. To do this, you must follow these instructions:

After this, a window will appear where the following information will appear:

date of issue of the first driver's license;
place and time of receipt of the certificate;
a court decision made against the owner of the rights.

On the traffic police website, information cannot be searched by last name; these actions are considered a violation of confidentiality.

Another way to find out the date of receipt of your first driver's license is the RSA database

. The Russian Union of Auto Insurers always meets halfway requirements for those who want to speed up the process of obtaining information.

In order to simplify the procedure, the union’s specialists suggested writing the universal date “December 31” in the questionnaires.

Thus, if the driver does not have time to search for the exact date of issue of the driver’s license, you can contact the insurance company, which is engaged in processing the necessary documents.

The union’s specialists will take on all the difficulties, including searching for information.

It is worth noting that it is impossible to find out the date of issue of the certificate online using the RSA database.

. But it is possible to use e-mail and send a request to RSA employees.

Using the RSA database, you can find and check other information, for example, the definition of KBM is the “bonus-malus” index; it affects the cost of the policy.

Therefore, it is very important for a motorist to calculate it correctly. In case of an error, the loss can amount to several thousand rubles.

This coefficient directly depends on the number of years spent behind the wheel officially

. In the RSA database, this indicator can be calculated most accurately. But some unscrupulous insurance agents may inflate this ratio not in favor of the client.

You can check the KBM on the RSA website; this should be done before paying for insurance. The step-by-step instructions look like this:

After it became possible to issue insurance policies via the Internet, vehicle owners began en masse to apply to the Russian Union of Auto Insurers.

The question of what numbers to use when applying for a policy has become quite relevant if you can only see the year on your driver’s license.

The union members decided to use the date “December 31”. This was officially reported by the RSA press service.

You can address this question to the insurer’s office, where the insurance agent issues the policy.

. Therefore, he will also have to look for the date of issue of the first driver’s license. For this he receives a salary.

But it often happens that contacting different insurance companies shows different results. The driver will need to independently determine who should be entrusted with taking out insurance.

Most drivers who decided to purchase an MTPL policy using the Internet were faced with the need to indicate their exact driving experience. If you enter only the year, the system will generate an error and require you to enter complete information

Therefore, it is necessary to understand how to find out the date of issue of the first driver’s license in the RSA database. And also what other methods can be used.

It is very important to indicate the date of receipt of the first driver's license for those motorists who recently received a driver's license and lost it or changed their last name.

The age-experience ratio of the driver will depend on this, which affects the cost of insurance.

Information about the date of issue of the first driver's license may be needed if there was more than one existing license. In most situations, the driver stores this information in memory only during the first years of driving. Most motorists forget the first time they acquired their license right away. Moreover, if the length of service is calculated over years, and the certificate has not been changed for many years.

All additional papers record only the time, but it turns out to be very difficult to find out the date of issue of the first driver’s license if the situation requires it. In what cases this information may be needed, we will consider later in the article.

Who issues the document and when?

The car owner receives a license by completing a training course at a driving school, passing exams and paying a special state fee. In this case, the rights display information about the inspection that issued them. Do not be confused, a driving school only provides training, but does not issue a driver’s license. The license is issued by the traffic police department at the place of residence of the citizen. It is worth noting that in everyday life you can still find the old version of this document. In it, information about the organization that issued the rights takes up significant space. Modern rights are issued in the form of plastic cards. Personal identification from them is carried out by optical-electronic means. The full name of the inspection does not fit on such a card, so a special code of the traffic police department is used, which consists of 4 digits: the first two of them represent the inspection, and the last are the code of the employee who issued the document. Any employee responsible for processing and issuing a driver’s license within the department receives his own unique code. For example, citizen Ivanov studied at driving school X, successfully passed all exams and paid the state fee. Inspectorate Y, located at Ivanov’s place of registration, issued him a license. Moreover, the employee who provided this service was Sidorov. The inspection code Y is 56, the code of the employee Sidorov himself is 74, then the traffic police code is 5674, in accordance with Figure 1. And you can find information about each of the departments involved in this activity in the “online directories” tab on the official website of the traffic police .

Figure 1 — Traffic police code on the driver’s license

You can see who issued the driver’s license on its front side in paragraph 4c after the word “Staff Police”. The entry can be immediately recognized by the four-digit code. The date of issue is located just above, in paragraph 4a. It is worth noting that paragraph 4b indicates the date when the driver’s license expires. For example, citizen Ivanov, in accordance with Figure 2, in paragraph 4a of the certificate has the date “02/01/2012”, and in paragraph 4b - “02/01/2022”, this means that citizen Ivanov received his driver’s license on February 1, 2012, and its expiration date is expires February 1, 2022.

Figure 2 - Date of issue and validity period of the driver's license

Since the old-style driver’s license differs significantly not only in content, but also in design from the modern one, it will not be possible to find similar information in the same columns. In old-type certificates, information about the inspection that issued the document is in the “Issued” column, and the date of issue is located under this column on the front side of the document. A sample of such a driver's license is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 - Old style driver's license

Driving licenses are issued for a period of 10 years. But due to the fact that in 2021 they radically changed their form, many car owners are wondering whether or not to exchange their old license for a new one. But you should not waste time getting a new document if it has not lost its validity. After all, driver's licenses from previous years are also current and provide all the necessary information about the car owner.

Why is this necessary?

Independent registration of MTPL insurance via the Internet requires specifying the date, month and time, starting from the issuance of the first driver’s license, regardless of length of service. When filling out the electronic model of the compulsory insurance form, you will need to clearly indicate the time period when the driver’s license was issued.

Usually, the information does not affect compulsory motor liability insurance at all, since only the main length of service is entered into the policy.

The electronic concept is programmed for this kind of method where it is very important to indicate a detailed date. If this formality is missed, the system will generate an error and ask you to correct the entered data. You can indicate your approximate driving experience in the form, but then the price of insurance will change significantly. Its calculation is directly dependent on the date of issue of the first driver's license.

Drivers with quite a long driving experience should not worry about overpaying for the policy. For beginners, on the contrary, timing matters. It is important to remember that even a small mistake can significantly change the price of an insurance policy.

Where is it required to know when the first license was issued?

The period for the start of your driving experience with maximum accuracy will be required when applying for an MTPL insurance policy online. Similar difficulties arise for all drivers, except those who have recently received their first driver’s license. This is explained by the fact that the beginning of their driving experience is identical to the date of issue of the license. For those who have changed their license a long time ago and more than once, it is more difficult to determine the exact date.

Insurance companies state that in cases where the driver has already had to change his license, ignorance of the exact date of receipt of the license does not at all affect the price of the insurance policy issued. According to them, their coefficient of driver experience, which has a decisive influence on the price of the policy, will be equal to one.

But for those who have recently changed their license, for example, due to a change of name or loss of a license, or have only recently received a license, it is still very important to know exactly the date of issue of the first driver’s license. The subtlety is that the driver’s age-experience coefficient, which can significantly influence the cost of insurance, greatly depends on this.

How can I find out the date of issue of my first driver's license?

In most cases, finding out the date of issue of the first driver's license is required for persons who have not replaced their own certificate for a long time. For drivers who have recently received a driving license, this information is not so significant, since their main experience is the same. The reason for finding out the date of issue of the first driver’s license may also be a change of documents due to their loss/theft.

Organizations involved in auto insurance determine the need for the driver to determine a clear time frame for obtaining the initial driver's license. The motorist's length of service will affect the cost of obtaining compulsory motor vehicle liability insurance.

There are a number of ways to find out the date of issue of your first driver's license:

using a motorist card;
by making a request to the traffic police for the release of information;
by contacting the insurance company, where the date of issue of the first driver’s license is quite simply determined using the PCA database.

Let's look at each of the above methods in more detail.

Contacting the traffic police

The Internet resource of the State Traffic Inspectorate will help you find any information about the car, the driver, and will also make it possible to control the accrual of fines. This concept is very convenient and elementary even for inexperienced users who rarely use the Internet.

Algorithm of actions to find out the date of issue of the first license:

on the website visit the “Services” section;
go to the “Motorist Check” tab;
entering driver's license details - series/number/date of issue;
Processing request.

As a result, the user will be able to find out the date of issue of the first driver's license. The request is completed easily, the information appears on the screen very quickly, without freezing. The downside is the requirement for the user to have an Internet connection - it is not found in closed areas. If there is no connection nearby, you cannot receive information.

Is it possible to find out the date of issue of the first driver's license in the RSA?

The All-Russian Association of Insurers strives to provide assistance to motorists who are going through the procedure of paperwork with subsequent data extraction. Experts try to make this task easier for clients. Until now, it was recommended to write down the multi-purpose date December 31 in the questionnaires, but with the adoption of new laws the rule has changed.

If the person driving the vehicle does not clearly remember the date of issue of the first driver's license, the application is sent to a car insurance company.

The organization, in turn, will check the necessary data using the RCA database. The local branch staff will help you find out the necessary information, as well as solve many problems in finding missing information.

How to find out

If for some reason the driver needs to know the exact date of obtaining his first driver’s license, he should go through the procedure for obtaining information using the driver’s license number that he currently has.

To do this you need to do the following:

go to the official website of the traffic police - gibdd.ru;

find the “Services” tab on the panel, select “Driver check”;

then a field for entering data will appear on the screen - the driver will be required to provide the number of the latest driver’s license and the date of its issue;

After entering the data accurately, click “Request verification”.

After a few minutes, the page will display the following information:

date of issue of the first driver's license;
place and time of receipt;
various judicial decisions that were carried out against the driver making the request.

Among other things, information will be provided here about all issued driver’s licenses that could have been issued due to the loss of the old license, changes in personal data, or for any other reason (reasons will not be indicated).

Previously, the system implied entering only the date of issue of the last driver’s license, but since this was a direct violation of confidentiality, the presented system was excluded from practice - the line “series and number” of the last document was added.

As a result, a third party will not be able to find out all the information about a random driver - combining the series and number of the document with the date of issue is considered almost impossible.