Published: 10. January 2022,
By Christoffer Larsen
VP of Marketing at Trackunit
Within several different industries, telematics keeps growing in popularity because of its many benefits. It is important to highlight the many environmental benefits of using telematics for everyone wanting to reduce their carbon footprint. While this can be seen in many industries, it is especially evident in the transportation, trucking, and construction industries. You can request a demo and find out how you can enhance the sustainability of your fleet.
Telematics is a powerful tool for fleet managers looking to enhance the sustainability of their fleet. Telematics track a wide range of data in real-time. This data includes the driver’s performance, their vehicle and its mechanical components for preventative maintenance, the vehicle’s location, its contents, and predicting the most effective routes for delivery.
These data points generated by telematics systems can be integrated with other data to create highly beneficial information that you can rely on. Besides increased efficiency and decreasing fleet operating costs, telematics also contributes to enhanced sustainability by reducing fleet fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
Increase fuel efficiency
Reducing your fuel consumption is one of the simplest ways to achieve your fleet sustainability goals while also accommodating regulations. It is also an effective way to decrease fuel costs and impact your bottom line positively. Fuel is often a significant operating expense for fleet organizations. However, using telematics to increase fuel efficiency can help you make a difference.
Telematics can monitor each vehicle’s fuel usage. It can also help you detect any abnormalities compared to other vehicle averages and provide fuel card integration to help with cost reconciliation. Also, it helps identify any fuel spillage, thus helping to reduce fuel waste.
Optimize routes
Another important aspect of green fleet management is optimizing driving routes for fleet drivers. Managers can determine fast, cost-effective ways between construction sites based on traffic patterns and other available data, reducing fuel use, and drivers spend less downtime between sites.
Telematics solutions provide better predictions of the best driving routes to ensure that vehicles take the quickest route to their destination while using traffic predictions to their advantage. This can limit the time spent in traffic jams, thereby reducing idling time. When idling time is reduced and vehicles take the most efficient routes, vehicles likewise reduce their environmental footprint.
Reduce idle time and downtime
Time spent idling not only means workers are not contributing to the profitability of operations. It also means that fleet vehicles are consuming fuel unnecessarily, which does not comply with green fleet management initiatives.
With the use of telematics, you can set alerts for any unnecessary idling beyond a specific time threshold you define as appropriate. This helps reduce idling among vehicles while reducing fuel costs.
In order to act on a fleet sustainability plan, your fleet needs data. This data needs to be as extensive as possible so your business can make the most beneficial decisions. A key part of telematics in green fleet management involves fuel consumption for every type of vehicle in your entire fleet.
By focusing on the improvement of fuel reduction and fuel efficiency, the benefits can carry throughout your operations – from a decrease in safety incidents and collision costs to lowered maintenance. In order to move towards a greener future, green fleet strategies must focus on managing energy and resources for their fleets to help build a more sustainable world.
With rising fuel costs, increased congestion, and the global push for green solutions, it is worth considering your fleet’s overall environmental impact. As the construction industry grows, it is highly likely that the carbon emissions likewise will grow. However, suppose fleets take the steps now to embrace sustainable alternatives. In that case, your business’s bottom line would benefit, and you would be getting ahead of the curve in the sustainability movement.
By implementing telematics on your fleet and using software to leverage the collected data, you can make your processes more efficient and effective while simultaneously increasing the value of your construction equipment.
That is why using telematics is important since it provides you with an overview of your various operations. Trackunit Manager can help you with an overview of your fleet. It utilizes GPS tracking and alerts, so you can see where your fleet and equipment are located at any time of the day, which helps reduce idle time.
To effectively manage your fleet, you will need data. Data collection can happen through hardware installed directly onto your equipment or vehicles, or it can happen through ISO feeds with compatible manufacturers.
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