Car insurance - Tips & Advice - Green driving

Sharing a car with a partner, family member or even friend is ideal if you can’t afford to buy your own vehicle outright. Car sharing also means one less car on the road, helps cut congestion and makes better sense for the environment. And with the Named Driver benefits that come with Direct Line Car Insurance it can help cut running costs too…

You may have to plan around each other a bit more to share a car, but it can work perfectly. For many drivers, it is the only solution while they save up enough money to buy a car and cover all the costs of running it too. With insurance, tax, maintenance and fuel, this can all add up to a daunting figure and any help on keeping costs down can be a real bonus.

So, if you are a named driver (insurance jargon for a person who has been nominated to drive a particular vehicle by a car insurance policyholder) or you want to put someone on your insurance, you’ll be glad to hear about Direct Line’s unique Named Driver No Claims Discount.

As a policyholder, it’s easy to add named drivers to your Direct Line Car Insurance policy. Simply call up or login and we’ll send out revised documents – make sure you have the other driver’s details handy. We also recognise every year that a named driver doesn’t make a claim on your insurance.

Your named drivers’ no claims histories are automatically stored on our system. When any named drivers come to apply for their own policy with Direct Line, they can give us your details online or on the phone and we can identify them immediately. They will then be able to get some help with the cost of running a car by receiving up to 5 years' No Claims Discount on their own policy. Named Driver No Claims Discount can also be transferred to an existing Direct Line Car Insurance policy.

Start taking advantage of Direct Line Named Driver No Claims Discount on your Car Insurance today by getting a quote.