Better driving means better business

29 April 2008

DriveTech is using the opportunity of exhibiting at the Fleet Business Show (The Business Design Centre, Islington, London on April 29 and 30) to re-iterate its commitment to the DfT’s ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme, which aims to publicise best practice in the area of occupational driver risk management.

The ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme, administered by RoadSafe, extols the virtues of organisations running tailored driver risk management programmes through identifying ‘business champions’ which have experienced the benefits for themselves and are willing to stand up and be counted. These ‘business champions’ are then used as the focus for case studies, and are often called upon to speak at conferences and be at the disposal of the media.

One of the early business champions to lend its weight to the programme was DriveTech client BSkyB.

“We fully support the aims and objectives of the Driving for Better Business programme” said DriveTech Managing Director, Jim Kirkwood. “In fact we are hoping to persuade a number of other DriveTech clients to become champions for the cause.”

DriveTech can be found on stand M67 at the Fleet Business Show.

Editor's Notes

DriveTech (UK) plc is one of the UK’s leading providers of road risk management, driver assessment and education. We work both with organisations whose employees ‘drive for work’ and with members of the public, who are offered education as an alternative to prosecution by the police.

DriveTech’s vision is ‘working together to eliminate road death and serious injuries’ by providing the most effective and innovative solutions, using education and technology, to minimise risk for all road users.

DriveTech (UK) has won the Institute of Transport Management’s (ITM) ‘Fleet Award for Driver Training’ in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the ‘European Driver Safety Specialist’ award in 2005. In September 2007, it was named the ITM’s ‘UK Driver Training Solutions Specialist’ for making ‘the most significant impact upon the Driver Training and Safety sector over the past decade’

In 2007, DriveTech (UK) won the South England and South Wales regional award of the Bank of Scotland Corporate ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ of up to £5m, interest-free funding and was runner-up in the national Grand Finale. In addition, the company was named runner-up in the 2007 Thames Valley ‘Business of the Year’ award.

For further information, members of the media should contact Steve Johnson on direct line +44 (0)1789 414700, mobile +44 (0) 7894 621134 or on steve.johnson@drivetech.co.uk