A GOVERNMENT and police drive to slash company car accident rates could be destroyed unless driver training firms put their differences aside and focus on helping fleets improve their records. The Fleet Driver Training Association this week appealed for the entire industry, whether FDTA members or not, to work together to promote driver training to fleets and not become side-tracked by internal squabbles.

In a damning attack on an 'unnamed minority' in the industry, FDTA chairman James Sutherland warned: 'There is no in-fighting in the industry, but a small minority seem determined to perpetuate the myth that there is. The reality is that there is a massive job to be done to bring fleet accident rates down. Sutherland refused to 'name and shame' any driver training companies or fleets which were responsible for the in-fighting 'myth', saying he did not want to join in with their policy of mud-slinging.