Protecting the environment is extremely important to most people and a majority of business owners. Running an environmentally-friendly business can be difficult and very expensive, especially if you have a mobile workforce.
Very few businesses can afford to replace all of their vehicles with the most modern environmentally friendly models on the market. One of the least costly and most beneficial ways to improve your environmental impact and bottom line is through the use of sophisticated fleet management software.
AVL systems provide a wide variety of benefits that can help you protect the environment. Whether environmental protection is a key issue to you personally or something you want your business to represent, StreetEagle’s fleet management solutions can get you real results. Here’s how:
Emissions Reduction
StreetEagle’s fleet management software can help you achieve lower vehicle emissions in a number of ways. First, tracking will help you maximize your fleet’s routing and travel efficiency. This will result in reduced mileage and time on the road, which subsequently reduces fuel usage and emissions released.
Second, StreetEagle’s maintenance module provides you with a platform to better track vehicle maintenance schedules. When your vehicles are well maintained and have their engine and oil checked regularly, the vehicle will drive more smoothly, use fuel more efficiently, and produce fewer emissions.
In addition to the environmental benefits, implementing AVL systems can have a significant positive impact on your bottom line by reducing your fuel costs and avoiding costly repairs that result from missed scheduled maintenance and oil changes.
Idle Reduction
Fleet management software allows you to monitor your vehicles’ engine idling times. Idling vehicles burn fuel and give off pollutants the same way moving vehicles do. By monitoring idle time, you can identify employees that are prone to leaving their vehicles idling. This provides an opportunity to train them on better procedures to limit this activity.
Reducing idling will diminish the quantity of dangerous particles released into the air by a vehicle. These particles can have severe adverse effects on humans and particularly children. If a vehicle is idling near a building, such as your office or a customer’s home or place of business, these particles can potentially enter the building through open doors, windows, and air intakes.
Idling also wastes fuel and can actually be more harmful to a vehicle than normal operation. Most newer vehicles do not need to be “warmed up” by idling in cold weather the same way they were in previous years. In fact, warming up only takes 3-5 minutes and running the engine at low speed can cause up to twice the wear and tear on the engine compared to running the engine at full speed.
It doesn’t stop with tracking…
StreetEagle offers a variety of other tools that contribute positively to both the environment and your bottom line including: driver behavior monitoring (in-cab audible alerts that correct drivers poor behaviors immediately) and in-cab cameras that help correct driver behavior preventing accidents that could leave the environment littered with vehicle wreckage, fumes and harmful fluids.
Learn more about how StreetEagle can help you help your organizations bottom line while also protecting our environment.