Company car drivers are the real speeders?
Company Car Drivers are more likely to be caught speeding than other road users. Research carried out by Leaseplan found from an analysis of 100,000 company drivers 16,000 had received tickets whereas for the UK as a whole the ratio is 1 in 10.
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