I sat down with a client last week to go over the results of their year long effort to greatly reduce vehicles idle time. The numbers were astonishing. They believed by simply focusing on idling- using Roadside Systems RoMa Idle Report, Trip Activity Report, and Stops & Usage report they were able to save thousands of gallons of gas and hundreds of hours of engine run time. In addition they believe that productivity went up as well. Maybe their guys didn’t like sitting in their vehicles without the air condition running.
That 15 minute convience store stop adds up fast. Labor rates can cost you as much as $60 per hour. An hour plus a week adds up fast as in thousands a year per employee. You can stop it immediately. Verify your time cards with our Trip Activity reports. Check the standard out of the soda fill up with our location report. End those rounded time cards and replace with exact time on the job. Watch your labor costs go down!
One of the most tedious jobs out there is IFTA reporting. Filing those reports every month is a pain- and a costly one. We have been told by many customers that it is a near full time jobs in many operations. even worse is having to go through an audit!
Our clients that start using the mileage report let us know pretty quickly that they aren’t sure how they existed without it. The feedback we get is that our Mileage Reports cuts their process by at least 50%. Sure you still have to have the paper logs etc but at worse our report serves as a quick check to your work and a huge asset during an audit.
I stopped by the local QT on Wednesday and as usual the best run convenience store known to man was doing great business. Every pump was taken and customers were having to make places to park. I noticed a number of our clients and felt a bit of pride!
The next day I went back and saw many of the same vehicles-including my clients. Most of the vehicles were parked in the front of the store and not the pump. My bet is that these guys were there to fill up on caffeine and donuts- not gas.
I wanted to see how prevalent this was so I went back to the office and ran the new Location Report for a couple of my clients at that stores address. I entered the address and the date range and sure enough one client had five vehicles that pulled in to that store every day! Some of the vehicles would actually sit and idle there for more than 15 minutes. The store wasn’t anywhere near any the clients office’s so these guys were going out of their way to get to there.
Our clients tell us it costs us much as $60 an hour to operate a vehicle (wages, taxes, fuel, benefits, etc.). Just cutting out
coffee and donuts on your dime could save as much$2400 a year per offender!
