How hard is it to drive a car?

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To start. I'm talking about a small company who relies on a small fleet of service vehicles. I had a van for 6 and a half years and the only accident I had was when a tray back ute pulled in on me gouging the drivers door (not too badly) and knocking the mirror off. I nut and bolted the mirror back on and the thing looked a little ugly, the boss got the payout as I was not at fault but chose not to get it fixed as time off the road costs money. Whatever, I gave up on washing the thing because it looked ugly. I do wash the ute I have now because it has no damage. Out of the 2 other service guys in my team. The old bloke (top guy the be honest and not a bad tradesman) has never washed his van in the past year he has been working here, and has scraped 2 yellow parking bollards. If he cleaned the yellow paint off and gave the thing a wash the dents wouldn't look as bad, and you wouldn't look as bad to clients. I personally think that how you keep your car says alot about yourself. Old or new, cheap or expensive, knocked around or not, if it's clean you come across as a person who takes pride in what they are all about. I even (mind you I don't get paid to, so it's spray only) wax my ute once a month because it's straight and I don't like being seen in a filth trady ute. Then there is the young one. Good worker, but could not reverse park a car with auto park. 5 accidents last year, mostly minor, but I would refuse to drive a car that has a 2 inch gap from the top of the drivers door to where it should be. Last week his went in to be smash repaired and I got the phone call from him asking about any prior damage on my old van that he has been driving. I hoofed it over there to have a look. The damage I copped by the other ute can easily be calmed on again. The indicator I kindly gaff taped back in was new damage as well as the swipe from behind the drivers door masking what was done when I got pulled into, and the front bar was half off. Surely it cannot be that hard to drive a car. I got my p plates in 04 and have never had an at fault incident (have been rear ended before) then someone with 14 months experience has 6 in 14 months (not including the damage on his personal car that cannot pass rego) in work cars? It's coming to the point where I'm going to have to do a monthly condition report on the work ute. It's not that hard to drive.