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

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How Should this Guide
be Used?
This guide aims to provide van
operators of all backgrounds with
guidance on how to ensure that
vans are operating efficiently and to
promote efficient van operations.
This guide will take you through a
step-by-step process. It starts with
collecting information to develop
an understanding of your current
situation, then takes you through
the decision-making process to
developing an action plan. Finally, it
helps you to identify and implement
improvement actions, and then how
to monitor those improvements.
This guide is designed to be easy
to understand and uses flow
diagrams and real-life examples to
illustrate points where appropriate.
Diagrams, graphics and colour
coding are used to make it easy to
navigate and for users to see the
main topics at first glance. Links
to relevant sections or documents
are highlighted throughout. Key
definitions are highlighted in black
and case studies in blue. An outline
of individual sections is provided
here.
Introduction
Chapter 2
Benefits of Efficient Van Operations
This section gives a description of
the benefits that can be achieved by
implementing a more efficient van
management and operating system.
Chapter 3
Efficiency Review
This section highlights the key
stages for improving van operations
and explains how they link together.
Reference will be given to other
sections of this document and other
guides that are available.
Chapter 4
Efficiency Improvements
This section gives details of how to
go about improving the efficiency of
your van operations. It is split into
five sub-sections:
4.1: Understand: Establishing Your
Baseline
4.2: Prioritise: Identify Areas for
Improvement
4.3: Assess: Root Causes and
Solutions
4.4: Implement: Making the Change
4.5: Review: How Have You Done?
Chapter 5
Options for Improvement
This sections details topics to
investigate that could lead to
efficiency improvements within your
fleet if appropriate for your fleet and
if implemented.
Appendix: Useful Forms
This section contains example
templates that you may find useful
for your van operations.
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