We did training today with one of our new customers. They have 160 plug and play tracking units, the ST-400’s installed in their fleet of vehicles.
Now one of the biggest cost savings that a tracking unit can save a company is by understanding the idle habit of the drivers. Do they ever turn off their trucks?
We were going through a certain segment of this customer’s fleet and we noticed that one driver had over 24 hours of idle time in one week. We discuss that for each hour of idle time, a vehicle will burn about ¾ of a gallon of fuel. So this one driver used an additional 18 gallons of fuel for this one week. With fuel being $3.50 per gallon and that is being pretty gracious, this driver wasted $63.00 of fuel alone. Now multiple that times 52 weeks and you get $3276.00 in wasted fuel cost. Now take that times 160 trucks and you could be wasting over ½ million dollars in fuel.
Once the customer caught his breath, he said that his fuel bill for the year was 3 million dollars!!! If you cut just 10% of that bill, you savings would add up to $300,000.00 per year in savings.
It’s hard to run a fleet of vehicle without knowing what is going on. What are my drivers doing? Are they idling to long?
Tracking your Fleet with a GPS Fleet Tracking System can give you the data you need to manage your fleet better.
For more information contact:
Jeff Stoker
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