How To Get a Green Fleet AND Save Money At the Same Time
Many consumers fail to understand the intricacies associated with getting the goods they consume from the manufacturers into their hot little hands. Depending upon point of origin and destination, some items can travel from hundreds to thousands of miles. Some consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the effect all this travel has on the environment. Transport companies are doing what they can in order to increase the green fleet effect of their trucks and delivery vehicles.
It should be known this is not an easy task. The way things have been done for many decades tends to lean towards excess and very little attention on worrying about how transporting goods affects the world around us.
If you own or work for a company whose fleet is in dire need of ecological updating, there is some good news for you. What if you could institute some services that would not only help your business get greener, but would also end up saving your bottom line a minimum of 10 to 15% on fuel and accounting costs?
One of those two “what ifs” probably got your attention. Maybe both did. The question you’re now asking is just how can this be done. How can your company be responsible to the environment as well as the stockholders?
Easy. There are some excellent companies who provide fleet fueling services to companies just like yours. Whether you have 2 trucks or 200, these service providers have the perfect service allowing your drivers to use business fuel cards in order to effectively handle fuel management for all your vehicles.
With the help of the Internet, and database operations, the provider effectively allows your accounting systems to go paperless. The entire life cycle of fuel management is positively affected. Your drivers no longer need to collect paper receipts; nor are they required to spend time and effort (translated, saves your company labor charges) filling out expense reports (hey, there’s some more paper and ink savings!)
The fueling network is going to make available to the accountant types immediate access to everything that’s going on with your fleet, as it relates to the fuel they buy and miles they travel. Your people access this information online with their computers. No paper needed to do that, either.
In fact, unless someone just has to have a print out, the entire fuel acquisition process is completely digital.
Another very greening effect of using a fuel management service is the ability to constantly monitor your use of fuel and other petroleum products. Should a vehicle suddenly show increased expenses in oil, something might be wrong. The truck could be leaking oil (bad for the environment) or it could have some malfunction causing it to burn excessive amounts of oil (again, bad, bad, bad).
Without the information readily available to your company, you would have to rely on the reports submitted by your drivers (probably on paper). Those reports might only come in once or twice a month. That leaves weeks of opportunity to spew petroleum byproducts into the environment.
Now you’re business operations have positive ecological ramifications, plus, you are spending less money on oil (and gas, diesel, etc.) With less money going out, there’s more money for the bottom line. More money there usually equals increased profits.
So if you care for the world around us, it’s a win. If you own the company, those extra profits are a win. If you are a driver or even an accountant for the fleet, chances are good you’ll not only keep your job, but you might even get a raise. Sounds like the classic win, win, win!
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