OH DEAR, hands up all consultants.
It appears you are worst when it comes to accumulating points on your driving licences.
In fact, consultants, you’re even better at it than those utility company and telecoms white van man drivers who also seem to tot up points with regularity too.
At least that’s the picture painted by fleet software company CFC Solutions, which has produced this intriguing snapshot of drivers with and without points.
The data was assembled for key industry sectors by analysing the users of its Licence Link licence checking software. The cleanest licence business drivers were identified as those in the financial, public sector and health care sectors.
Neville Briggs, managing director at CFC, said: “When it comes to assessing which company car, van and truck drivers are a risk on the road, most employers split them into groups.
“Those with no points are low risk, of course, while those with five or more points represent a much higher risk – they are serial offenders in road safety terms,” said Mr Briggs.
Mr Briggs had this advice for business car managers: “Drivers who fall into higher risk groups may require some kind of remedial action such as additional training. And may also need a much closer eye keeping on them. Their licence should be rechecked perhaps every three months to see if they have been penalised with additional points that could even see them banned.”
Mr Briggs continued to explain that companies had a legal duty of care to ensure that their drivers were safe on the road and had valid licences that were regularly rechecked.
“This is something that employers need to take seriously. Only last week, one of our Licence Link users found that one of their company car drivers actually had a drink driving ban through a standard check that was run using the software,” Mr Briggs added.
CFC said that the figures were partially a reflection of CFC’s user base for Licence Link, but were also an indicative snapshot of which industries had the least and the most to worry about when it came to driver safety.
The bad boys on the road…
Percentage of drivers with five or more points
