Question: Driver attitudes

We have had various members of the public calling to complain about a specific employee's standard of driving. The employee has a clean driving licence and we have not had any accidents reported. He has also attended defensive driver training and we received a glowing report. However, the employee's attitude is that he has no responsibility over how he drives and feels that members of the public are "targeting him". Is there a driver attitude assessment that we could get this employee to sit?

Sep 10 2007 05:35AM

You appear to have taken reasonable steps to ensure that your driver is well-equ...

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