Fleet Driver Training
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Imagine the future, where the company car will be treated in the same way as a factory machine, and Health and Safety Officers demand adequate training or companies face prosecution as a result of their employees lack of care or ability. As fleet training providers, System Drive is best placed to care for the needs of our customers. |
Through our years of valuable experience in the field of driver training (Advanced, provisional and instructor training), we provide opportunities to reduce the impact of law changes and the daily financial consequences of poor driving techniques.
Our aim is to deliver you the customer, quality guidance which will meet the safety standards placed upon us by the authorities and the community that we live and work in. |
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Who are we?
System Drive is the fleet/advanced driver training company linked to Alan's School of Motoring (formed in 1980) and Alan's Instructor Training Establishment to develop and promote road safety standards to the post 'L' test market.
Our instructors are all vastly experienced and highly qualified in the field of driver training. All hold Driving Standards Agency A.D.I. certificates, R.O.S.P.A. gold I.A.M., CITY & GUILDS 730 further education certificates: others are in possession of R.O.S.P.A. diplomas, Cardington 'A' level driving and O.R.D.I.T. registered driving instructor trainers.
What do we offer?
We offer a variety of training throughout Essex, Kent and the East of London. Courses are flexible enough to meet individual or company requirements from the company directors, sales representatives, commercial vehicle drivers. Courses can also be arranged for specialist activities such as female security and skid prevention. |
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What Are The Benefits to you?
All participants in the courses are provided with a detailed driving report, and will normally receive a personalized certificate of attendance.
Through our expert tuition and guidance course instructors will provide an action plan, perhaps offering an opportunity in the benefits of taking an advanced driving test with one of the recognized bodies. (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents or The Institute of Advanced Motorists.)
What do we need of you?
Our needs are simple. You supply a vehicle, a room with a VHS video, and if possible an overhead projector for a presentation prior to practical training. Alternatively, a venue can be arranged to meet our requirements.
Our trainers will be happy to do the rest.
More Information (please click relevant heading):
Daily newspaper report, 2000
New test for company car drivers will be announced to try to reduce the hundreds of deaths involving motorists driving as part of their work.
Moves to target high risk drivers will include a 'vocational driving test' of skills not included in a standard test, such a skid control and an advanced level of hazard awareness. The new test will be accompanied by a shift in the way courts deal with companies when an employee has a road accident.
The long awaited document on road safety, proposes to reduce the road death toll by 1400 a year. Core groups to be targeted will be repeat and serious drink- drivers, young and inexperienced motorists company car drivers and those that persistently break the speed limit. Measures will include bigger fines and re-testing of offenders.
Lord Whitty, the Road Safety Minister, is to announce that ministers will consult on details for training 2.1 million company car drivers. The tests will be similar to the advanced driving test, which is claimed to reduce the likelihood of having an accident by up to a third. A one day course, costing £160, is generally sufficient to bring a competent driver up to test standard.
Although fewer than one in ten cars is a company owned car a quarter of fatal road accidents involve drivers of company cars and two thirds of company vehicles are involved in accidents each year. The test will not be compulsory, initially but companies facing claims on crashes will have to prove that they offered adequate training . The plans will apply primarily to firms with fleets of cars, but safety companies hope that it will be extended to all businesses.
In future the car will be treated in the same way as a factory machine, with safety inspectors demanding clear evidence of recent training. Government officials suggest that in future a company allowing a newly recruited teenager to drive a high powered company car on a motorway is more likely to be prosecuted in the event of an accident if additional training has not been provided.
Under health and Safety laws employers will also be questioned in more detail about the driving hours of staff. While lorry drivers are restricted to 56 hours a week, there are no limits on car drivers.
Rob Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisor Council for Transport Safety said "For too long the company car has not been treated in the same way as workplace machinery and yet it is more dangerous in the wrong hands".
Among measures to be unveiled will be minimum period of training for learner drivers, an increase in the maximum fine for speeding from £2000 to £5000 and more re - testing of disqualified drivers. Fixed penalties will rise from £40 to £60 and police forces will be told to devote greater resources to traffic policing Courts will be instructed to take tougher action against drivers convicted of dangerous driving, which can carry a ten year sentence that is rarely imposed. |
