All About Car Insurance Driver Plans and Vehicle Usage Definitions

These are cars that can only be driven during weekends and non-peak hours. It cuts costs on your motoring with savings on import taxes and road tax. And of course at Budget Direct Insurance you get to make even bigger savings on your car insurance.

The vehicle usage will have an impact on the premium depending on how and how frequent the vehicle is being used.

When you go through our ‘get a quote’ process either through Budget Direct Insurance’s website or talking to one of our Customer Care executive, we will ask you how your vehicle will be used.

There are 3 definitions on vehicle usage and the use of vehicle that we do/do not allow:

Private and Commuting Use is use of your car for social, domestic and pleasure purposes, and for travelling between home and a regular place of work only.

Private and Occasional Business Use is "Private and Commuting Use" above, plus use for occasional business purposes by the Main Driver or any Named Driver only. "Occasional Business" means your car is not registered for business use, and the use of your car is not an essential part of earning income for a business.

Private and Business Use is "Private and Commuting Use" above, plus use for the business and/or occupation by the Main Driver or any Named Driver only.

In general, if you regularly use your car for work, you are more likely to pay more for your car insurance than if you use if only for leisure or to commute to/ from work as the more time you spend on the road, the more exposure you will have with the elements on the roads and the more likely you will be involved in an accident, especially during the traffic peak hours of the day.

At Budget Direct Insurance, we price based on how your vehicle is used.

In general, if you use your car only for leisure or to commute to/ from work, you are likely to pay lesser for car insurance than if you regularly use your car for work as the lesser time you spend on the road, the less likely you are to be involved in an accident.

For example, off-peak car drivers will get a discount for their car insurance as they are not on the roads during rush hour where more cars are present for accidents to happen.

At Budget Direct Insurance, we price based on how your vehicle is used.

Low mileage driver is a driver who drives fewer kilometres than average drivers/ car owners in a year.

At Budget Direct insurance, drivers who own an Off-Peak Car (car with restriction on usage hours, easily recognised by a “red” vehicle registration plate) will enjoy lower premium as they either spend lesser time on the road, or they usually use their car during off-peak hours during the evening and weekends and hence, the likelihood of them being involved in an accident is lower.

At Budget Direct Insurance, we price based on the profile of the drivers. Therefore age, driving experience, occupation, claim history and whether the driver is entitled to the Certificate of Merit would have an impact on the premium.

There may be instances whereby the addition of drivers

• may lower the premium (e.g. adding mature and experienced driver with claims free records).
• may increase the premium especially when young and/or inexperienced drivers (drivers less than 25 years old and/or with less than 2 years of valid driving licence) are added.

Car insurance is generally tied to car owner whereby he/she will be the Policyholder.

This means that if the Policyholder authorized someone to drive their car and the authorised driver got into an accident, the car insurance will cover the damages for the car, provided they had opted for the Authorized Driver plan and the authorised driver is not a household member as under Budget Direct Insurance’s Car Policy, all household members of the Main Driver must be named in order to be covered under the policy. However, if you had opted for Named Driver plan, all drivers must be named under the policy in order for them to be covered.

Premium is computed based on the plan type selected and the profile of drivers listed.

At Budget Direct Insurance, this will depend on the driver plan that you choose. There may be additional excess applicable for Named/ Unnamed Drivers depending on the driver plan selected.

There are 2 types of driver plans:

• The Policyholder
• The person who uses your car most frequently (i.e. the Main Driver), if not the Policyholder, and
• Any driver with a valid driving licence driving with your permission (but if such person resides with the Main Driver, i.e. a Household Member, you must name such person as a Named Driver in order for them to be covered).
• The Unnamed Driver Excess and the Named Driver Excess may apply.

IMPORTANT: A Household Member who is not named as a Named Driver under the Authorized Driver Plan will not be covered under your policy.

• The person who uses your car most frequently (i.e. the Main Driver), and
• Persons you include on your policy as Named Drivers
• the Named Driver Excess may apply

IMPORTANT: The Policyholder must also be listed either as a Named Driver or the Main Driver under the Named Driver Plan in order to be covered under your policy.

There are also instances whereby the driver will not be covered even if you authorized/named him/her under the policy:

• if he/she does not have a valid driving licence,
• drives under the influence of alcohol/drugs,
• drives the vehicle for commercial purposes such as lalamove, grab, grabhitch etc.

It is unlikely that there are 2 main drivers for a vehicle as there is a tendency that 1 driver will drive more than the other.

At Budget Direct Insurance, for us to determine the Main Driver of the vehicle, we may ask questions such as:

Premium is computed based on the plan type selected and the profile of drivers listed.

• Who will be driving to work?
• Who will be driving more (frequency and not the mileage) in a week?
• Who will be driving during family outing?