Hello: I'm gathering data on safety professionals with company cars or car allowance. If you would be so kind to share the following information regarding your company car: Does your company offer a company car? Does your company offer a car allowance? How many miles do you driver per year on average? What is your title? What type of industry is your company Thank you

This information is being collected for an employer who is interested in what other companies do as they make their decision to offer company cars or an allowance to their staff.

Fleetnews (other web sites are available) has some interesting articles discussing the merits of car schemes, salary sacrifice and the like including the choice of fuel etc.

Don't you mean 100k & top tier company car....

Any data will be utterly meaningless How many of us work in identical companies? Some of us have to work all over the UK others just on one campus Its just the same with questions like "how much should a H&S manager be paid?"

I was once told that you can tell what a company thinks of H&S by the car the H&S person drives (company or own car). However I think you also should compare to other managers /people with equal responsibility. Of course other factors like how much traveling they need to do should also play a part. Other people rightly or wrongly will also judge their level within the organisation, by the car driven. Draw from that what you may, but it explains my current vehicle! Chris :o(

Do we all drive Volvos?

Nope - Volvo's are the domain of our Quality Department believing them to be a Safe car - realists look for something comfortable on long journeys with low BIK and forget fuel economy that is fleets issue

OK, in answer to the OP's original questions: Does your company offer a company car? Yes but only for those whose work mileage exceeds 15,000 miles Does your company offer a car allowance? No How many miles do you driver per year on average? Almost none (which is why I had to surrender my car, but I was happy to do so) What is your title? Head of H&S What type of industry is your company Humanitarian charity I've had cars with my last two employers. In both cases everybody got the same, or similar. My last place did offer a limited choice, either family sized or smaller. Since they are/were both charities the cars on offer were not glamorous, but reliable economical workhorses. In my last job I was doing about 12K p.a. for work, in this job to my surprise I found I was doing almost zero. We have good incentives to use public transport and most of our places are in urban areas. Didn't mind losing my company car, don't think cars are altogether a good thing, there are too many of them on the road, they isolate people from each other and the world, and too often they are used to express the aggressive side of people's ego. Driving's not much fun nowadays either. I haven't as yet bothered to replace the company car, I might get a little runabout come winter (something like a Hyundai i10) just to get to the station and back and do the odd shopping trip. We still have my partner's car, she does need it for work. Me, I'd rather be on the pushbike, John

I've had a company car since 1979: Escort, Fiesta, Escort, Escort, Sierra, Sierra Sapphire, Vauxhall Carlton, Alfa 164, Citroen Xantia, Mistubishi Galant, Mercedes C180 Sport, Nissan Primera, Volvo S60, VW Passat CC, Skoda Octavia and Audi A6. Mileage has varied between 12K and 40K. My main career was risk management (insurance Cos & brokers) and latterly self-employed as a consultant, able to decide on how much to spend on my car and free choice.