Online one-to-one training on any aspect of using fleet management software is being made available by market leader CFC Solutions at just £50 per hour.

The new service is designed to enable fleets to get access to high quality training at a very cost effective price and is tailored by CFC’s training department to the needs of each particular customer.

The training is supplied using the well-known Cisco WebEx online teleconferencing software. The trainer can be seen and heard through live video while, onscreen, real time demonstrations of the fleet software can be seen.

Managing director Neville Briggs said: “Traditional fleet software training, held in one of our training rooms , is excellent for taking a large group of users through the whole spectrum of fleet software use, but not so good at targeting particular users with particular problems.

“This is where we see online training of this type being highly effective. At a low cost and without the member of staff having to leave their offices, training can be provided that tackles very specific knowledge gaps.”

Typical areas that could be covered include disposals, terminations and housekeeping, how to run reports, new vehicle ordering, P11d management, importing information from your fuel card provider and MOT records.

He added: “There are areas in our software where many fleets could find new efficiencies by making full use of the software’s capabilities. Online training has very obvious benefits here.

“Also, there are areas of their fleet software system that users know about and value but, because they do not use the facilities often, forget how to use, and training can be used as a simple reminder.”

Briggs pointed out that online training also has other advantages over traditional training courses, especially with the recession making expenditure on training often difficult to justify.

He said: “Because the trainee doesn’t leave their place of work, online training is very cost and time efficient, and has green benefits because a long car journey is avoided.”