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One gallon of diesel fuel produces 12kg of CO2- based on a truck achieving 8.5 miles per gallon, each mile saved accounts for a reduction of 1.5kg of CO2. By installing Telematics or tracking equipment into your vehicles you can track each vehicle to determine whether the routes they are taking are the most efficient- and also identify whether the vehicle is being used for personal mileage as well as business.
Reduce Journey Times
Telematics and tracking equipment can help you optimise your journey times by evaluating the routes taken by each of your vehicles, to help identify when vehicles have taken unnecessary or problematic routes.
Minimise Carbon Emissions
Carbon Emissions can easily be reduced using telematics equipment by optimising your journeys as discussed above, reducing engine idling times, keeping vehicle speed down, efficient braking and ensuring your vehicles are only used for business. The Energy Saving Trust provide the Top 10 tips for greener fleets, which can be found here
Reduce Engine Idling
All of our vehicle tracking products provide reports for each vehicle on a journey basis. The reports give a complete breakdown of every journey the vehicle has made in the time period chosen by the user. Each journey will show a summary of the engine idling, moving and standing times to allow fleet managers to determine which drivers leave their vehicles idling for long periods of time. Long periods of engine idling can dramatically reduce engine life and service periods, this means more frequent servicing and parts replacement and in the worst case scenario a new engine. More information on engine idling can be found here.
Identify Vehicle Speeding
With all of our vehicle tracking and telematics equipment it is possible to quickly identify vehicles that are speeding on our maps; a truck traveling at 75mph consumes 27% more fuel than it would at 65mph and similarly, a van traveling at 70mph consumes 12% more fuel than at 60mph. The tracked routes are colour coordinated to show the speed of each vehicle at the time of each position. Our telematics units also provide functionality for reporting when a driver goes above a pre-determined speed, this allows fleet managers to quickly identify drivers that speed on a frequent basis and can be trained as necessary to allow safer and economical driving. Speeding reports are also available online and in our STACC system so that fleet operators can identify all speeding incidents up to 6 months in the past.
Identify Harsh Braking
With our telematics equipment it is possible to identify each individual harsh braking event and the location it took place. This allows fleet managers to quickly identify vehicles that may need additional driver training to manage the vehicle in a safer and more economical manner.
Identify Engine Over Revving
When using our telematics equipment, all engine usage data is collected automatically and stored on a web server so that fleet managers can always access each individual vehicles usage statistics down to the time spent in each gear, over revving data and rev band statistics. This allows fleet managers to maintain all vehicles according to their usage and train drivers that are not driving to the best of the vehicles ability.
Increased Driver Awareness
Two-way communications between driver and office can reduce unnecessary mileage caused by cancelled collections or deliveries, and the telematics data provides evidence to educate drivers on the best treatment and use of their vehicle.
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