DSA fleet driver training qualification
The Driving Standards Agency launched the voluntary Registration Scheme for Fleet Driver Trainers on 22nd April 2002. Fleet Driver Trainers are Approved Driving Instructors who specialise in providing training to fleet drivers of cars and vans. The scheme follows the work of a project group involving the DSA, risk managers, company employees, insurance trainers, and consultations with interested parties.
The Government’s road safety strategy: ‘Tomorrows Roads – Safer for Everyone’ announced that the DSA would introduce such a scheme to set standards for instructors who specialise in providing this type of training, and help raise the profile of the training on offer to fleet drivers and their employees.
Part of the Agency’s wider role in improving road safety is to ensure higher standards of instructors for different types of driver and rider – in particular, modernising the qualification and registration arrangements for all classes of professional driving and riding instructors. The registration scheme should be seen in a wider context of efforts to improve work- related road safety, announced in the strategy.