Almost three quarters of fleet operators monitor the on-road behaviour of their van drivers (73%), yet just half (52%) take similar action for their car drivers.

The findings, from the Q1 Fleet200 Strategy Network survey, sponsored by AssetWorks, BP, Sopp+Sopp, Trakm8 and Zenith, underline the relative ease with which fleet operators can install telematics on their job-essential vans and cars. However, they still find it more difficult to persuade drivers when it comes to user-chooser company cars.

The public sector has greatest success in the adoption of telematics in its collective car fleet, most likely because they have a higher proportion of job-use cars, with 60% using the technology compared to 52% of private sector operators.

Previous Fleet200 research shows 89% of public sector cars are job-need; that proportion falls to 70% in the private sector.