Originally Posted by: Thackeray

I hesitate to start another occpuational driving thread, but...

There's obviously a range of commercially available e-Learning and in-car training solutions out there - where is compliance? Where is best practice?

The HSE's guidance says priority for training should be given to those with high annual mileage and poor accident records, but where is the line on 'high' and 'poor'?

Obviously as with everything else SFARP means there's a degree of horses for courses, just interested what guidelines other people use.

I know that with second hand cars, 10k per annum is seen as a rule of thumb average for milage. Similarly most car lease deals come as standard with 10k per annum so i'd say that would be as good a figure as any to use as a starting point for determining what contirbutes high, medium or low mileage.

So far as poor accident records, i'd say that anybody who has caused an accident whilst at the wheel (or been caught speeding, talking on a hand held phone etc) would be seen to have a poor driving record and would be eligible for additional training.

10,000 miles is also the cut off point used by HMRC for fuel expenses (value) business mileage.

Poor driving could also be assessed from magically appearing vehicle damage (kerbed alloys, dented doors, scraped bumpers) as well as the manner in which the driver is observed/reported to be driving