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Opticar Joins Forces With Driving Services

As any fleet manager knows, running a fleet - whether company or employee-owned - involves more than simply providing a car, as occupational road risk and corporate responsibility issues become more of a priority. 

To help protect its clients and their employees Toomey Opticar has joined forces with leading fleet driver training and risk management specialists, Driving Services.

Through its Optifleet product, Opticar provides a unique solution for fleet operators by offering a mixed fleet approach, combining both company car and managed cash schemes dependent upon the individual driver’s mileage profile.

However regardless of the scheme type, employers are required to take increasing levels of responsibility for ensuring that drivers are both safe and roadworthy before taking to the road on their behalf.  

Driving Services offers a fully comprehensive online fleet driver training and risk management service for drivers, tailored to their individual needs, including policy, licence checks, accident reporting and vehicle specification.

Jim Salkeld, managing director of Opticar comments: “Corporate responsibility is a major business issue, with occupational road risk featuring at the top of the agenda, and likely to cost businesses dearly if ignored. 

“Often placed in the ‘too difficult’ tray, driver assessment and training should form an essential part of any corporate health and safety policy to protect employees and third parties, but will also reduce fleet costs overall through better driver safely awareness if managed effectively. 

“We have therefore teamed up with Driving Services to ensure our clients and their drivers receive the best possible guidance and training to reduce the risk of an accident, which of course greatly reduces the cost to the company.”

Doug Jenkins, managing director of Driving Services UK Limited comments: “In the last 20 years, Driving Services have been providing clients with solutions to the ever growing responsibility that employers have for employees driving on business, offering off the shelf and bespoke packages with enormous success.

“Working with Opticar will allow us to provide even more focussed solutions as they work very closely with their clients and together we can be even more effective in reducing the exposure to risk when driving.”

For more information contact Opticar on 01582 518181.