Vehicle Fleet Performance

To achieving best vehicle fleet performance you will need to ‘optimise’ your vehicle operations. 

This means operating your vehicles to the fullest extent – whilst minimising the overall number of vehicles required, minimising how much they cost, fulfilling delivery schedules, and keeping your vehicles safe and maintained.

This is challenging enough with diesel vehicles.  Electric vehicles will be more so.  Additional constraints will include the availability of charging points and the time required to charge, and the need to minimise harsh driving as this may have a material impact on vehicle range.

1. Gain Visibility

Costs

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Fuel usage
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Maintenance & repairs
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Vehicle rentals

Drivers

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Compliance
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Harsh driving
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Well-being

Routes

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Vehicle utilisation
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Route choice
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Delivery performance

2. Develop Metrics

Your Leadership Team will want a balanced set of metrics to guide them.  These need to cover the key constraints under which the fleet operates.  By driving  improvement in all the metrics together, rather than focus upon a few at a time, your Leadership Team will steadily optimise your vehicle fleet.

3. Optimise your vehicle operations

Challenge Costs

Does the data reveal opportunities that will minimise spend, or remove the need to spend altogether?

Are there activities that should be unnecessary and could be prevented with better ways of working?

Support Drivers

Is there evidence that drivers are encountering significant challenges that are increasing levels of stress?

Are there patterns in the records of driving performance and service delivery that point to ways in which drivers can be better supported?

Plan routes

For the regular, high value routes, are risks to drivers and vehicles along with fuel costs and delays being kept to a minimum?

Are there better delivery schedules that customers might agree to that would lessen the load on vehicles and drivers?

Measure Outcomes

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