Half of car fleets do not monitor driver behaviour, reveals Fleet200 survey

Almost three quarters of fleet operators monitor the on-road behaviour of their van drivers (73%), yet just half (52%) take similar action for their car drivers.

The findings, from the Q1 Fleet200 Strategy Network survey, sponsored by AssetWorks, BP, Sopp+Sopp, Trakm8 and Zenith, underline the relative ease with which fleet operators can install telematics on their job-essential vans and cars. However, they still find it more difficult to persuade drivers when it comes to user-chooser company cars.

The public sector has greatest success in the adoption of telematics in its collective car fleet, most likely because they have a higher proportion of job-use cars, with 60% using the technology compared to 52% of private sector operators.

Previous Fleet200 research shows 89% of public sector cars are job-need; that proportion falls to 70% in the private sector.

However, telematics uptake is reversed when it comes to vans, with 76% of private sector operators deploying telematics compared to just 44% of public sector. Among fleets with more than 500 vehicles, 85% are using telematics on vans, compared to 58% of those with 101-500 vehicles and 68% of fleets running up to 100 vehicles.

Newer technology is still finding its feet among UK operators, but again it’s the van fleets leading the way.

Almost half (47%) are using on-board cameras to monitor drivers’ behaviour in their vans (public sector: 56%; private sector 45%), but just 26% in cars (public: 30%; private 27%).