Awful fuel management within your company or Fuel theft…
With today’s economic climate companies should keep a close eye the operational costs of running their vehicle fleet,and one of the major costs in fleet management in our day is the rising cost of fuel.
How can companies reduce their overheads when controlling a vehicle fleet,clearly one way is to supervise and control fuel issues,now let’s be truthful and take a careful look at the facts,just a few litres of liquid gold,that’s right were talking about the gas we burn to keep our motor vehicles moving and on the roads today,can run up the fleet’s operating bill rapidly.
Shoddily maintained vehicles can gobble the fuel,I’m certain most of us have seen the black smoke from trucks on the road,a sign that the vehicle is not been maintained correctly,it may possibly be the fuel injectors or fuel pump needs servicing.
And with with the price of gas today we must appreciate that a few litres here and there quickly add up to an extra wage for vehicle operators and don’t tell me that you have never seen an operator with a fuel can and a pipe at the edge of the road which of course is fuel theft…
So now we understand that fuel can be managed and money can be saved how do we go about making these savings and controlling the day to day costs involved in running a fleet of vehicles.
This is not as challenging as it first seems,systems can be put into place to control the fleet administration of fuel issues. A fuel monitoring system can be installed on a company’s fuel island which will fully automate and control the fuel issues without the requirement for an attendant.
These fuel monitoring systems will without doubt control the fuel security on the island and make certain that vehicle consumptions are monitored on a vehicle by vehicle basis,giving consumption reports,and exception reports for the management of the fuel installation and the fleet of vehicles.
Precise control is maintained automatically by these systems and can recognize such things as fuel theft and badly maintained vehicles,as well as providing fleet managers up to the minute reports and fuel budgets and expenditure for vehicles,departments and cost centres within the company.
On a number of of the largest coal mines in South Africa where massive amounts of fuel are used such a system is already in use,the Autofuel fuel monitoring system controls and monitors millions of litres a month for many of these mines and at the touch of a button gives the administration immediate access to the data collected.
Whilst some vehicles could be allowed to fill 24 hours a day,7 days a week,others within the fleet may be restricted to office hours,and this is all merely set up just the once in the vehicle database for each vehicle in the fleet after which the system controls fuel issues without any fuel attendant
For a company to be competitive in today’s market it’s imperative to keep firm control on the running expenses of the vehicle fleet,and this is no less important in the mining industry where mining vehicles use massive amounts of diesel to carry out the mining operations.
