My company has reported me for speeding

[milesgiles]

57 in a 40

Trouble is it wasn’t me.. got the letter from the Met I’ve confirmed it is a van owned by my employer, but not at the Depot I work from. I was 200 miles away at the time.

I have emailed the met and copied my HR department in on it. Christ knows how they have managed to miss identify the driver.

[Somewhatfoolish]

I'd be asking for... oooh, I dunno. A £25 Amazon voucher or something for that? It's a pretty minor thing at about that level of annoyance. Plus obviously the money for the stamp etc.

Mind you if you're in a union or something can probably be a stload more bolshy.

[Second Best]

I'd speak to a senior HR person and advise them this is wrong and needs attention. Any time you spend on this is company time.

Also, without knowing what you do, tell them you won't be driving a company car until it's sorted. If they need you to move around, they can pay for taxis. If you lost your licence for a few weeks then they'd have to do it anyway - so start it now.

[LuckyThirteen]

Oh absolutely,

Why not, mark yourself as trouble?

For a fairly daft mistake on some individuals part that is going to be fairly easily rectified you should follow the advice above.

Then the company will be fully aware that instead of being a reasonable fair minded person who can accept that another employee within the company has made a mistake, you're in fact a 1970's throwback just looking for an excuse to get militant.

Honestly 'refuse to drive a company vehicle and demand paid for taxis'? WTAF! Just because another employee made a mistake and likely didn't realise the OP was away?

You'd like the OP to get all bolshy with his employer because of this?

Way to go to f"#k over some poor sod who has made the mistake. Who may then be under threat of action because the OP had a reaction way out of proportion mto the problem.

Op - just advise that you were not there. Provide proof and move on.

[lancslad58]

Somewhatfoolish said:

I'd be asking for... oooh, I dunno. A £25 Amazon voucher or something for that? It's a pretty minor thing at about that level of annoyance. Plus obviously the money for the stamp etc.

Mind you if you're in a union or something can probably be a stload more bolshy.

Living up to your username as per usual

[Alickadoo]

Second Best said:

I'd speak to a senior HR person and advise them this is wrong and needs attention. Any time you spend on this is company time.

Also, without knowing what you do, tell them you won't be driving a company car until it's sorted. If they need you to move around, they can pay for taxis. If you lost your licence for a few weeks then they'd have to do it anyway - so start it now.

User name checks.

[Alex Z]

Second Best said:

I'd speak to a senior HR person and advise them this is wrong and needs attention. Any time you spend on this is company time.

Also, without knowing what you do, tell them you won't be driving a company car until it's sorted. If they need you to move around, they can pay for taxis. If you lost your licence for a few weeks then they'd have to do it anyway - so start it now.

The first sentence fine.

The rest is compete nonsense. There’s no justification for refusing to drive form what’s probably a simple admin mistake, and it’s probably a disciplinary matter to do so, or at best makes you look like a dick

[LastPoster]

Have the company contacted you previously regarding speeding in company vehicles in the past (I.e do you have a history of it)

If not then I think you are justified in being a bit stroppy with them in going straight to the police rather than discussing with you as a first action coupled with the fact it wasn’t you anyway

If they have then a non stroppy approach pointing out that this time it wasn’t you and would they kindly copy you in on the contact with the police informing of the mistake that has been made

[CanAm]

LastPoster said:

Have the company contacted you previously regarding speeding in company vehicles in the past (I.e do you have a history of it)

If not then I think you are justified in being a bit stroppy with them in going straight to the police rather than discussing with you as a first action coupled with the fact it wasn’t you anyway

If they have then a non stroppy approach pointing out that this time it wasn’t you and would they kindly copy you in on the contact with the police informing of the mistake that has been made

The heading of this thread makes it sound like the OP’s employer has “dobbed him in” as they say, rather than the more likely scenario that they have received an NIP for one of their fleet and have been asked to identify the driver.

Perhaps the OP could clarify?

[LastPoster]

CanAm said:

LastPoster said:

Have the company contacted you previously regarding speeding in company vehicles in the past (I.e do you have a history of it)

If not then I think you are justified in being a bit stroppy with them in going straight to the police rather than discussing with you as a first action coupled with the fact it wasn’t you anyway

If they have then a non stroppy approach pointing out that this time it wasn’t you and would they kindly copy you in on the contact with the police informing of the mistake that has been made

The heading of this thread makes it sound like the OP’s employer has “dobbed him in” as they say, rather than the more likely scenario that they have received an NIP for one of their fleet and have been asked to identify the driver.

Perhaps the OP could clarify?

Very true. I hadn’t thought of it like that but you may be right

[milesgiles]

CanAm said:

The heading of this thread makes it sound like the OP’s employer has “dobbed him in” as they say, rather than the more likely scenario that they have received an NIP for one of their fleet and have been asked to identify the driver.

Perhaps the OP could clarify?

That’s what happened.. but they’ve still ‘dobbed me in’

I wouldn’t exactly call it a mistake I mean this is a collosal muck up. why on earth did they not contact me in the first place?

[milesgiles]

LastPoster said:

Have the company contacted you previously regarding speeding in company vehicles in the past (I.e do you have a history of it)

If not then I think you are justified in being a bit stroppy with them in going straight to the police rather than discussing with you as a first action coupled with the fact it wasn’t you anyway

If they have then a non stroppy approach pointing out that this time it wasn’t you and would they kindly copy you in on the contact with the police informing of the mistake that has been made

Even if I had a history of hooning about you surely don’t go to the police and tell them it was me if you aren’t 100% sure

[Boringvolvodriver]

milesgiles said:

Even if I had a history of hooning about you surely don’t go to the police and tell them it was me if you aren’t 100% sure

Do you use the same van all the time? What are the procedures for booking a van out if not?

Sounds to me that someone at HO has looked at the wrong info on their records so hopefully they will be able to sort it out.

[TheRainMaker]

milesgiles said:

Even if I had a history of hooning about you surely don’t go to the police and tell them it was me if you aren’t 100% sure

Sounds like a mistake, go make yourself a coffee, reply to the NIP and let HR know.

Get on with the rest of your life.

[Crudeoink]

I had a similar thing happen to me. Rented a van for a day when moving some furniture. A couple of weeks later got a letter through as the van had been caught speeding at 4am on the M4. Turns out I had rented the van at 8am and the staff at the rental company just looked at the date and sent the fine my way. A call to the rental company and police had it sorted within about 30 minutes.

[Dingu]

milesgiles said:

That’s what happened.. but they’ve still ‘dobbed me in’

I wouldn’t exactly call it a mistake I mean this is a collosal muck up. why on earth did they not contact me in the first place?

It’s annoying but that’s just dramatic.

[WrekinCrew]

Isn't nominating a driver without due diligence an offence?

[98elise]

LuckyThirteen said:

Oh absolutely,

Why not, mark yourself as trouble?

For a fairly daft mistake on some individuals part that is going to be fairly easily rectified you should follow the advice above.

Then the company will be fully aware that instead of being a reasonable fair minded person who can accept that another employee within the company has made a mistake, you're in fact a 1970's throwback just looking for an excuse to get militant.

Honestly 'refuse to drive a company vehicle and demand paid for taxis'? WTAF! Just because another employee made a mistake and likely didn't realise the OP was away?

You'd like the OP to get all bolshy with his employer because of this?

Way to go to f"#k over some poor sod who has made the mistake. Who may then be under threat of action because the OP had a reaction way out of proportion mto the problem.

Op - just advise that you were not there. Provide proof and move on.

This.

It's a minor mistake that can be easily corrected. Humans are not perfect.

How would the OP hope to be treated if he made a minor mistake?

[Ham_and_Jam]

milesgiles said:

I wouldn’t exactly call it a mistake I mean this is a collosal muck up.

No, It’s a minor admin error.

Be the better person and realise that people get stuff wrong occasionally.

As mentioned earlier you can sort all this in 10 minutes. Return the form saying you weren’t the driver and contact your HR with the same info.

[pavarotti1980]

WrekinCrew said:

Isn't nominating a driver without due diligence an offence?

No, knowingly supplying incorrect details but an administrative error would not