Fuel Economy No Idle Issue

Nice article here in MultiChannel Merchant.  If you use a vehicle in your work drive, you ought to go and read it.  My headline grabbed your attention, didn’t it?

Well the truth is, since everyone’s business has a certain potential profit and a certain amount of unavoidable costs, everything you can do that will reduce avoidable costs translates direct to your bottom line.  And if your competitor is too “unsmart” to reduce his costs …. You gain that much ground.

UPS runs on the order of 80,000 vehicles … many of them the ubiquitous “package cars” that come down your street making deliveries.  They aren’t trucks, by the way, and if you look closely you won’t see manufacturer.  That’s because UPS is so big it designs and has built its own task-specific vehicles … so they obviously know what they are doing.

In addition to the routing software the article mentions, and the rigorous avoidance of idling, I have it on pretty good authority UPS has been testing a sophisticated GPS tracking system that not only monitors where the package car was driven but the specific engine performance as well.

I can sell you one, along with commercial off the shelf mapping software that will optimize your routes.  Or you can go ahead, knowing you are wasting 15%, 20% or more of your vehicle operating costs … you’ve been notified.