01 Tipping point: Setting the stage for smarter waste management
BENEFIT 4 Fueling efficiency: Slashing costs and emissions in your waste collection fleet Another key way that your waste and sanitation organization can curb inefficiencies and improve cost savings is through optimized fuel management. As one of the most essential spending categories for waste collection companies, you have little control over fluctuations in fuel price — but what you do have some control over is how fuel is used by your trucks. Every effort your organization makes to keep fuel consumption to a minimum (without sacrificing service quality) can help you enhance profitability or demonstrate fiscal responsibility. Monitoring fuel consumption with a telematics solution can help you identify if costly practices like unnecessary idling are occurring too often in your operations. You can also track and limit active driving behaviors that burn excessive fuel, such as speeding and harsh acceleration exceptions. Using an integrated telematics solution can even deliver fuel savings in ways beyond just active fuel consumption monitoring. For example, service verification with Geotab’s waste management solution allows you to easily track garbage pickups through camera and third-party integrations. By retaining irrefutable evidence of operations, you can prevent costly callbacks that waste time and fuel. In this chapter, we’ll explain how telematics can help you trim operational inefficiencies and achieve savings through optimized fuel management. Read our step-by-step guide below for expert guidance on how to reduce fuel consumption and emissions with fleet management tools. 1. Report on idling and aggressive driving habits : Idling is often a necessary part of the job for your garbage truck drivers while they stop as residences or businesses to load waste into their hoppers, but it’s critical to monitor and curb instances of unnecessary idling. Examples of unnecessary idling can include eating, drinking or texting by your drivers while they’re sitting parked with their trucks turned on. Also known as true idling, this practice can result in large amounts of financial and environmental waste, especially if it’s happening in multiple trucks several times per week. Additionally, you should study aggressive driving habits that consume high fuel amounts, such as unnecessary abrupt acceleration and speeding. Using
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Keeping trucks ticking: Maximizing garbage fleet longevity Reducing waste in your waste operations: From routing to right-sizing Fueling efficiency: Slashing costs and emissions in your waste collection fleet Clean record, clean streets: Avoiding legal landfills from liability and risk
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The last stop: Moving toward a leaner, more efficient waste management fleet
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DID YOU KNOW?
According to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy , idling with a heavy-duty truck can burn roughly 0.8 gallons of fuel every hour.
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