Efficient Vans: A Best Practice Guide to Cost - Transport Cafe

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Overview of Benefits
By implementing actions to improve
the operational and performance
efficiency of your vans, you will be
able to realise a number of benefits
for your business. These benefits
will range in scope from local
financial savings to your business,
to wider customer satisfaction and
helping to improve local air quality
through lower emissions associated
with your vehicle movements. The
scale and scope of the benefits
realised will depend on the degree
to which you choose to improve
the efficiency of your vans, and the
number and nature of the efficiency
measures you implement.
Understanding the Benefits of Efficient Van Operations
Understanding the Benefits of
Efficient Van Operations
This section highlights the benefits of having
efficient van operations. A description of the benefits
in terms of financial savings, the environment,
safety, customer, efficiency and legal compliance is
presented. The benefits are described and discussed
with reference to examples of where other van users
have successfully implemented an improvement –
we call these case studies.
Some of the benefits that could be
achieved are:
• Specification of the optimum
vehicle results in lower overall
operating costs
• Improved standards of driving
mean lower fuel costs, fewer and
less serious accidents
• Improved vehicle maintenance
results in lower support costs
and more reliable operation of the
business
• Improved vehicle specification
and utilisation mean lower CO 2
emissions
• Robust management practices
result in reduced legal
compliance risks
• Less stressful driving methods
• Longer lifetime of vehicles as a
result of better maintenance and
driving style
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