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Driver training: the easy way to green a fleet
Attendees discussed hints and tips for making a fleet more environmentally friendly and universally agreed that driver training was the best and the easiest option.
Arval's Mike Waters said: "With an existing fleet, it has to be driver training. It is a prerequisite for all fleets."
Glass's Rupert Pontin added: "You're right - and driver aids. It all helps people identify how badly they're driving."
KeeResources' Mark Jowsey said: "Driver training is the best opportunity if you've got an existing fleet that perhaps isn't as driver-focussed."
ITM's Charles Purkess said his organisation conducted a trial of two hydrogen vans that revealed an enormous difference in real-world fuel economy between drivers, regardless of the fuel.
"We converted two Ford Transit vans to hydrogen and we trialled with [support services company] Carillion, councils, DHL and others. Regardless of the fact that they had clean fuels, what different personalities could achieve out of a tank from the vehicle was quite startling actually. It showed that one of the biggest opportunities we've got is driver training."
Georgina Smith, fleet administrator at Healthcare at Home, said she introduced driver training for her fleet and had gone through it herself: "We have one-to-one training with ROSPA. Anybody that's in the company gets to do it. It's amazing. It made me a very confident driver and I wasn't before.
"It taught me to read the road. We do it at two-year intervals, which is just about right. They just drive along with you and discuss it with you afterwards."
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