MIB Threatens Fleet Firms
19 May 2004
The Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) is to threaten fleet operators with legal action through the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) unless they supply vehicle data.
MIB officials are keen to include all possible details of vehicles on the road in the Motors Insurers Database (MID) and have warned they will use the law to ensure fleet operators detail each vehicle they use.
MIB Chief Executive, Ashton West, said "Fleet operators are undermining the value of the database and what we can do with it, by not supplying complete information. This action is aimed at people who know what they should be doing and are not doing it".
The bureau estimates suggest there could be as many as 50,000 commercial policies that do not have vehicles' details attached to them.
Under legislation drawn up when the database was established, the CPS can pursue legal action against companies that do not supply full details of all vehicles in their fleet.
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