With fuel costs reaching unprecedented highs, fleet managers are under increasing pressure to optimise fuel efficiency. They need to keep these losses and waste to a minimum. Therefore, to be able to accurately do this, you need to know how much you are using.
Flowquip offers a wide range of flow meter solutions for fuel consumption measurement. By accurately monitoring fuel usage on cars, trucks, and agricultural/construction machinery. Operators and fleet managers can:
Moreover, to achieve the optimal operating mode of vehicles, a driver can select the resource-saving operation mode of the engine by using RPM and fuel rate data. Additionally, fuel consumption can be monitored using the online telematics system, and operators can remotely supervise the technical condition of the engine and fuel systems.
However, many fleet operators risk fuel theft during vehicle or stationary machinery operation. The highest percentage of fuel misuse occurs with construction, agricultural, and other machines where fuel is accounted for according to engine hours. In fact, fuel tank draining, underfilling fuel in a tank, fraud with cash vouchers, and fuel cards are the most common methods of fuel theft. These issues can be eliminated by introducing a fuel consumption monitoring system.
Firstly, control of fuel consumption allows eliminating fuel theft in a fleet and thereby helps to reduce total fuel expenses and fleet costs.
Secondly, another important task is solved – engine operating time monitoring. This helps fleet managers to exclude inappropriate use or excessive downtime of the machinery.
Furthermore, engine operation time recording also helps to shift to a performance-based pay system for drivers and operators of the equipment. Consequently, drivers are paid for actual working time and achieved fuel economy score.
Moreover, fuel consumption measurement allows machinery owners to recalculate fuel consumption quotas for each unit of equipment. Our experience shows that fleets, which operate less common tractors or special vehicles, have just a general idea of the real consumption of diesel fuel. The consumption rates (quotas) approved by governmental bodies or by the company’s internal documentation are also inaccurate because they do not include the influence of machinery working conditions.
Ultimately, the implementation of a fuel consumption control system gives fleet owners a multi-directional economic effect:
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