The green dividend

Running an efficient and green fleet offers your businesses many benefits including lower transport costs, reduced vehicle emissions and improved corporate social reputation.

Vehicle tracking provides an opportunity to monitor vehicles to provide greater levels of visibility and control. This real-time and historical insight provides fleet owners and managers with an advanced tool that can help to create operating efficiencies and increase the productivity of vehicles and employees, whilst helping the environment.

Fuel usage

Fuel costs are the biggest challenge for many fleet operators. According to the findings of the Vehicle Tracking Survey, tracking technology can achieve on average a 12 per cent saving on a fleet’s fuel bill as a result of enhanced scheduling and job allocation, reduced mileage and improved driving behaviour.

Thames Water was able to cut fuel usage for 1,500 vans by almost ten per cent, equating to 161,000 litres of diesel fuel and a reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of approximately 429 tonnes.

Productivity

Making the most of available resources enables fleet operators to maintain the most efficient fleet size. Vehicle tracking helps better manage mobile resources when they are on the road and out of sight to increase jobs per day, identify the best route to destinations and avoid unnecessary journeys.

A recent study found that fleet operations experience a 23 per cent in the total number of service calls completed per day per mobile employee when a tracking device has been installed.

Driving behaviour

How a vehicle is driven has a direct impact on fuel consumption, with speeding, harsh breaking, over revving, and excessive idling all contributing to fleet inefficiencies. For example, the RAC claims that driving at 85mph uses 25 per cent more fuel than at 70mph, whilst avoiding sharp breaking can save as much as 30 per cent on fuel costs.

One leading fleet operator in the UK has used vehicle tracking to support its driver assessment process. The company has used the technology to identify areas of underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of its driving training programme. As a result,, instances of speeding are now down by more than 60 per cent and harsh breaking has reduced by 70 per cent significantly contributing to fleet efficiency.

C-track provides advanced vehicle tracking to maximise the performance of a fleet to achieve considerable operating efficiencies and reduce the environmental impact. Contact us for advice on how you can achieve greener fleet performance.