[sheps]

It's all about self protection of your transport manager and or company directors;

If you crash on your way to/from work whilst on the phone (even in a hands free cradle) in the H&S and blame culture world in which we live today your employers can be proven culpable.

The email you have received will go some way to protecting them from such bullshit.

I had an external agency write our co.car policy. When I read it I thought it was a joke. Then the extent of the blame culture was explained to me and I realised why they're written like they are.

Our company car policy pretty much points out that you shouldn't BBQ whilst driving (ok, not that bad, but it's close).