Learn about your motor vehicle record
Start with the state driving record and the motor vehicle record (MVR) that reports it. The driver score is a later, educational summary of that same record. It is not a DMV score, an insurance score, or a promise about price.
Guides
Motor vehicle record (MVR)
What an MVR is, who orders it, and how it relates to the state driving record.
Driving record
What the state keeps on your record and why that history is the source of an MVR.
Driver score
The educational score Driver Leaderboard calculates from a motor vehicle record.
Score methodology
How Score v1 is calculated. It is not a DMV, insurance, credit, or government score.
DMV points
How state point systems are recorded, and where to confirm the rules.
Defensive driving
How a course can show up on a driving record when a state accepts it.
Insurers and the driving record
How an insurer uses an ordered record. This is not a premium or savings estimate.
Violations on an MVR
Common violations and how a conviction or administrative action hits the record.
State MVR pages
Official record portals and sourced point notes for each state.
Tools
Calculators that explain points. They do not replace the official record.
Articles
- What is an MVR?
- How far back an MVR goes
- How to get your MVR
- What shows on an MVR
- MVR vs driving record
- Driving record vs. MVR
- MVR for insurance
- MVR for employment
- How to fix errors on your MVR
- How to check your driving record
- What is a clean driving record?
- How long violations stay on a record
- Young and new drivers
- How DMV points work
- Points and what insurers can see
- Speeding tickets on a driving record
- How far back insurers look
- What is a good driver score?
- MVR score vs. telematics
- Florida points
- Florida adjudication withheld
- DMV points calculator
Check the record first
The driving record is the source. The score is only a reading of what that record contains.