Mileage capture specialist Vertivia analysed both the business and private mileages driven by company drivers across its entire fleet. The analysis showed that one major UK fleet witnessed a fall in recorded business miles of 5,546 miles a year per driver, some 25.7% of the company’s total business mileage, following the introduction of Vertivia’s mileage capture system. 

The analysis, up to the end of 30th September this year, looked at the trends in recorded mileage following the implementation of the system. It showed that the average fall across the Vertivia fleet was 1,874 business miles per driver or 10.6% of the total business miles driven. 

This amounted to a saving in claimed mileage expenses of £281 per annum per driver, based on an average saving of 1,874 miles at a typical business mileage rate of 15p per mile. 

The analysis also showed that at the same time as recorded business miles went down, so recorded private mileages as a proportion of the total went up – from an average of 18.5% to 24.7% for the fleets analysed. 

The largest single differential recorded on one client’s fleet saw the percentage of recorded private miles increase from 20.1% to 37.6% of all recorded miles. 

The falls have been attributed to changes in driver behaviour as well as shifts in management practice within some fleets to use teleconferencing. 

Vertivia sales director Paul Chater said: ‘The findings are conservative because pre-implementation data in all cases was not available and therefore the trends are likely to be higher than we have shown. 

‘They prove conclusively that the introduction of a mileage capture system, like Vertivia Mileage Management, can have a profound effect on the business miles driven and claimed by company drivers. 

‘The average saving per driver suggests that, for a fleet of 1,000 vehicles, a saving in mileage expenses in excess of £280,000 per annum would not be unrealistic.’