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Failures to Manage the Public Sector Grey-Fleet Highlighted
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Of the 30 county councils quizzed, who between them employ 529,000 people and have over 120,000 grey-fleet drivers, not one inspects their grey-fleet vehicles to ensure they are safe.
More than half of the councils do not even have a policy for checking grey-fleet vehicles have valid MOT certificates.
This is in contradiction of Government advice, which states public sector managers should be “carrying out documentation checks on driving licences, insurance cover and MOT certificates before allowing employees to drive their own vehicle for work, and then repeating these at regular intervals”.
However, the majority of county councils rely solely on grey-fleet drivers’ honesty when they state that they have a safe and roadworthy vehicle.
The research has found that over 77,000 county council grey-fleet drivers are using their private vehicles for business journeys knowing their employers will not only never check safety-critical items such as tyres or windscreens, but will never ask them to produce a valid MoT certificate.
The number of county councils that have a policy to check their grey-fleet drivers have adequate insurance cover has also been discovered. Fewer than half (14/30) have a policy requiring employees to provide documentary evidence that they have business-use insurance that covers them for using their private vehicles for work.
This means over 50,000 of the country’s county council employees are driving their private vehicles for business without their employers checking what type of insurance cover they have.
Read the full story in Tuesday, Sept 1st issue of Fleet News
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