36% of business car journeys could be replaced by a phone call

As fuel prices soar, a survey has found that only 28% of drivers using cars on business say that all of their journeys are absolutely necessary.

4% say that they simply did not need to make any business journeys by car, but did it anyway.

That’s the findings of a survey by Unicom, where car drivers from 98 companies were asked to state what proportion of their day-time car journeys on business were absolutely necessary.

“We wanted to find out whether they could have achieved the same result by making a phone call or arranging a conference call,” said Tony Eagleton of Unicom.

• 28% said all of their journeys were necessary
• 17% said that only 80% of their journeys were necessary
• 19% said that 60% were necessary
• 23% said that 40% were necessary
• 9% said 20% were necessary
• 4% said absolutely none of their car journeys for business was necessary.

“Overall, therefore, it works out that a staggering 36% of business journeys by car could be replaced by a telephone call or conference call,” said Eagleton.