As part of the partnership, Fleet21 is adding six Volvo V40s to its new training fleet and will also offer services including:

• Compliance services include organisational risk assessment, driver licence checks and grey fleet checks, as well as help with developing and communicating robust driver policies to educate the driver and protect the employer.
• Improving driver skills starts with a bespoke online driver risk assessment. The results allow risk managers to be much cleverer with their budget so they can target individual drivers with different programmes such as e-learning or in-car training, or tackle specific problems such as frequent speeding or poor observation and awareness.
• Driver engagement programmes for both business drivers and senior managers to help promote a lasting safer driving culture within the organisation.

Selwyn Cooper, Volvo Car UK national corporate operations manager, commented: ‘Fleet21 has a passion for driver safety that perfectly compliments Volvo’s ethos. With employers under a duty of care, giving drivers this extra training and education is putting them in the best possible place when they get behind the wheel of their company car.

‘We are constantly working towards our vision that by 2020 no-one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo, and going the extra mile to develop drivers as well as technology is another step in the right direction.’