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Speeding accounts for more than four in five driving offences that occur in company vehicles, according to new data from Fleetcheck.
The software company said that speeding made up 82% of the offences recorded by its LicenceAssured checking product.
Other offences recorded included phone use (2.7%), no third-party insurance (2.6%), failing to give information about the driver of a vehicle (2.5%), and jumping traffic lights (2%).
Fleetcheck managing director Peter Golding said: "The precipitous drop from top placed speeding to second placed phone use shows how simply going too fast is by far the biggest issue when it comes to real world fleet driver behaviour.
"In fact, further refining the data produces even more definitive findings. Drilling down into those 82% of speeding offences, three out of four are for exceeding the limit on public roads rather than motorways, so the problem is very much concentrated on everyday driving.
"All of this says one thing to us - that employers should be encouraging and training drivers to slow down and even potentially penalising them when they don't. Driving over the limit is not just dangerous but uses more fuel and causes more vehicle wear and tear. It's bad from every angle."
Peter added that some of the other offences seen in the LicenceAssured data should also be of interest to fleet managers.
"All the other issues that we have recorded are dwarfed by speeding but that does not mean they are not worthy of attention by fleet managers. While much less of a problem than it once was, illegal phone use while driving clearly remains a problem, for example.
"It is also surprising that so many company vehicles are being found by the police without adequate insurance. These could well be grey fleet drivers and checking that employees have the necessary cover is something that all fleet managers should do."
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