Strive to Drive Conservatively: Top Fuel Reduction Tips
Cutting down on your fuel use is one of the best ways to reduce costs while doing delivery work. Read on for some tips on how to do that.
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Off the Road
Our first couple tips consider changes you can make in your off-road behaviour to improve your fuel efficiency. These can all come under the broader heading of maintaining your vehicle properly, but drivers should note the specifics too.
Check Your Wheel Alignment
Unless they
Check Your Brakes
Again, this is something you should be doing anyway. Brakes suffer a lot of wear and tear out on the road and, in addition to being dangerous, poorly functioning brakes can drag on the wheels, decreasing efficiency. To avoid burning through fuel fighting your own brakes, get them looked over by a professional at least once a year.
General Maintenance
Vehicles used in delivery work go through a lot. Hundreds, even thousands of hours on the road add up and key components can become worn and stop working without warning. Regularly servicing your truck helps catch problems before they become too serious. Any number of issues that could be reducing your efficiency can be caught and fixed. What
On the Road
Now, we turn to a few ways you can change your driving behaviour to improve efficiency.
Coasting
Coasting
A job doing delivery work usually means you
Convoys
If your company or exchange has booked you alongside a few other trucks, they
Even if you
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Finally, you can increase efficiency while on the job by simply switching your engine off if you
Follow these top tips, and you should notice savings very quickly. This will help keep you and your company competitive, while also reducing your environmental impact. Not bad for some simple tricks.
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Norman Dulwich is a Correspondent for Haulage Exchange, the leading online trade network for the road transport industry. Connecting logistics professionals across the UK and Europe through their website, Haulage Exchange provides services for matching delivery work with available drivers. Over 5,400 member companies are networked together through the Exchange to fill empty capacity, get new clients and form long-lasting business relationships.
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Norman Dulwich is a Correspondent for Haulage Exchange, the leading online trade network for the road transport industry. Connecting logistics professionals across the UK and Europe through their website, Haulage Exchange provides services for matching delivery work with available drivers. Over 5,400 member companies are networked together through the Exchange to fill empty capacity, get new clients and form long-lasting business relationships.
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