Driving economically can save up to 30% on fuel expenses compared to aggressive and rash driving. When it comes to fleet management, addressing poor driving behavior among your drivers can help you save a significant amount on your total fleet expense.
Using a fuel level sensor with a gps tracker can play an important role in detecting and correcting poor driving habits. Find out what bad driving behavior means and how the right fuel level sensing technology can help address this significant problem.
Poor Driving Practices
Here are the various examples of poor driving practices often noticed in fleet operations:
- Harsh Braking: This can affect vehicle mileage and increase fuel consumption. Additionally, harsh braking can cause increased tire wear and tear, thus increasing the cost of operation.
- Over-Speeding: When it comes to fleet operation, it is recommended to have your vehicle driven at optimal speed limits to reduce fuel consumption and increase vehicle lifespan. Engines consume the least fuel when operated at an optimal balance of speed and torque. Over-speeding is a common problem that increases fuel consumption across fleets.
- Sudden Acceleration: Abrupt acceleration not only increases fuel consumption but also affects engine life.
- Idling: Just 10 seconds of idling can cause a vehicle to consume more fuel than restarting it. So, you can imagine the amount of fuel wastage when your drivers leave vehicles across your fleet idling for several hours.
Frequently taking longer routes can also increase fuel consumption and time wastage. This can affect your company’s finances and customer goodwill.
Overcoming Fuel Waste through GPS-Based Fuel Level Monitoring
When you implement effective fuel level monitoring and tracking systems, you can detect poor driving behavior and other areas of fuel consumption inefficiencies. Such systems help identify key areas where excessive fuel consumption is taking place within your business operations.
Consider the point that an average long-haul truck can idle more than 6 hours a day. Considering the number of days your trucks spend on the road every year, you can imagine how much time your fleet spends idling.
Using GPS-based fuel level monitoring systems can provide valuable insights into fuel usage across your fleet. When integrated with telematics tools such as idling alerts and fuel reports, it can become easier to understand fuel usage trends across your entire fleet. It can then become easier to discover issues and take appropriate steps to reduce fuel consumption. Some of the steps you can take can include facilitating proper feedback and incentivizing good behavior.
Using the Escort TD-Online
Escort TD-Online is the first fuel level sensor featuring a built-in GPS and GLONASS system. It is a one-of-a-kind, proprietary fuel level monitoring and tracking solution that brings together the advantages of capacitive fuel level sensing with advanced monitoring within the same case.
Businesses that rely on their fleet to run their business can benefit from Escort TD-Online in reducing their fuel consumption thanks to the following features:
- Assisting in determining the route and location of vehicle movement
- Using a point system to determine the driving behavior with the help of the built-in position sensor
- Benefiting from the GPS/GLONASS receiver included in the sensor case
- Unique algorithm that calculates motor hours that keeps track of engine operation without the need for any additional wiring
- Monitors engine status via supply voltage
- Allows connecting 10 more sensors through BLE/RS-485
- Select a cellular operator using a replaceable Nano SIM slot
The cost-reduction benefits offered by such advanced GPS-based fuel level sensors can be significant when you want to streamline your operational expenses. They can also help you maintain optimal performance across your fleets.
