Speeding accounts for more than four out of five driving offences in company cars and vans, new data from FleetCheck reveals.
The top five offences recorded using its LicenceAssured driver licence checking product are speeding (82.0%), phone use (2.7%), no third-party insurance (2.6%), failure to give information about the driver of the vehicle (2.5%) and jumping traffic lights (2.0%).
Peter Golding, managing director, said the major jump between top-placed speeding and second-placed phone use shows how speeding is by far the biggest issue when it comes to real-world fleet driver behaviour.
And further analysis of those 82% of speeding offences reveals three out of four are for exceeding the limit on public roads rather than motorways.
Golding continued: “All of this says one thing to us – that employers should be encouraging and training drivers to slow down and even potentially penalising them when they don’t. Driving over the limit is not just dangerous but uses more fuel and causes more vehicle wear and tear. It’s bad from every angle.”
The LicenceAssured data also shows other issues that fleets need to tackle, including illegal phone use while driving and lack of adequate insurance.
“These could well be grey fleet drivers and checking that employees have the necessary cover is something that all fleet managers should do,” Golding stated.
Launched 18 months ago, LicenceAssured has already been adopted by 20% of FleetCheck’s customer base and was recently accredited by the Association for Driving Licence Verification.
Golding said: “We’ve been really pleased with the reception to the product. Licence checking is a fundamental part of modern fleet risk management, and we are confident that we have made it as easy and as effective as possible.”
