The Guardian reports that VT Training has won an award in this year’s Fleet Heroes awards.

VT Training is one of the country’s biggest vocational training organisations. They have introduced a company car scheme that is reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, by encouraging employees to use company cars with low co2 emissions rather than using their own cars for company business.

Nationally, there are an estimated 4milion private cars used for work; the so-called grey fleets. And with The new Corporate Manslaughter Act, makes it more likely that directors will be prosecuted if their employees have serious accidents whilst driving unsafe vehicles Making sure the wide range of private vehicles are safe could be a time consuming and costly business.

Audi have a low emissions version of the Audi A3 which matches the co2 emissions 119g/km of the cars used by VT Training. There is also a tax benefit for employees taking a car in this band – with the next band up adding an additional £10 month to the benefit in kind.

The new Audi A3 TDI three-door hatchback has been available since August, and from October the five-door Audi A3 Sportback is available on contract hire at £292*a month.