T-Mobile announces pleasing vehicle incident reduction rate - 8th Mar 2006

T-Mobile have just announced a pleasing reduction in the total net costs of incidents amongst their company car drivers in 2005, compared with 2004. In 2004 the total cost of incidents was calculated at £658,000. This dropped in 2005 to £555,000. T-mobile have been working closely with Motor Fleet Risk Management experts Driving Services over the last few years and believe this has contributed significantly to the annual saving of over £100,000.

The working partnership began with an initial assessment by Driving Services of the needs of all T-Mobile employees who drove on company business.  This was followed by on-road training sessions with highly experienced Driving Services’ trainers for those employees considered to be a danger to themselves and others on the road. Recently T-Mobile have also been utilising Driving Services’ highly sophisticated, but simple to use on-line driver management tool – The Driving Monitor. This on-line tool allows quick and effective risk assessments to be carried out on all drivers, to identify high risk employees who would benefit from either on-line, or on road training. It is envisaged that use of the Driving Monitor will help achieve even more cost savings, and more importantly ensure that driver competency increases and incident rates continue to decline.

March 2006