Taking control of your fleet and mastering fuel management isn’t just a smart strategy; it is essential for your success.
With gas prices rising and mileage demands increasing, investing in a professional fleet fuel management team like Glesby Marks can help provide you with expert insight, significant savings, and improved operational efficiency.
Understanding the Cost Savings of Fuel Management
What is fleet fuel management? While many may think it is just a means of purchasing fuel for your fleet, there are many factors that go into effective fuel management for your fleet. For your fleet, optimal fuel management aims to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and promote environmental sustainability.
At Glesby Marks, we equip you with the resources you need to achieve complete control over your fleet. This includes access to our fuel management software, expert analysis, and fleet maintenance to keep your vehicles in the best shape possible throughout your lease.
Drive Smarter with Fuel Management Software
Fuel management software is arguably the most important aspect of accurate fleet management. Integrating technology into your fleet management system will not only provide more accurate reports, but you will also gain more visibility and predictive insights into how you can maximize your savings.
Fuel management software electronically tracks all aspects of your fleet’s fuel usage, including things like fuel consumption, mileage, and maintenance requirements. This helps streamline your operation by allowing you to see where your money is going.
By using a more proactive approach to fuel consumption analytics, you can cut back on unnecessary spending, preventable repairs, and lengthy downtime.
Using a Fuel Card for Optimal Fleet Control
We are proud to partner with the US Bank company, Voyager®, to give our customers a solution for their fleet management fueling needs. The Voyager® Fleet Card is designed with security features that control who is allowed to use the card and what specific items are able to be purchased. The three main types of card security settings are:
- Fuel only
- Fuel and additional items (all items at gas stations, including oil and windshield fluid)
- Daily limits or monthly dollar limits
Along with limiting what items can be purchased, the card can also track a variety of security metrics. Things like date and time of transaction, type of fuel purchased, vendor, or driver ID can all help contribute to improving control and cutting back on unnecessary financial loss.
Thousands of gas stations and repair centers across the country accept the PIN-controlled card. Opting for PIN control can drastically reduce losses from driver misuse. You can assign a PIN to a vehicle used by multiple drivers, to a driver who uses multiple vehicles, or to company-wide cards.
Lastly, the Voyager® card can provide detailed reporting to show where your team is performing well and where you might need to reevaluate your system. Along with a general invoice report, the card will also track things like driver spending reports, tax exemption reports, and discount reports.
Strategies for Optimizing Your Fleet Fuel Efficiency
At Glesby Marks, our team understands the critical importance of creating a highly efficient fuel management system. If you are in the market for improved fleet fuel management productivity, our team has been operating for more than 40 years and is constantly learning new ways to optimize fleet management for our customers.
Driver Behavior Analytics and Fuel Management Facts
The way a driver operates a vehicle plays a large role in the fuel consumption of the car. Aggressive driving, such as hard braking, drastic acceleration, and extended idling, can lead to a 23% increase in fuel consumption per vehicle. Over time, this will contribute to extremely high gas bills and perhaps even overspending on budgets.
One way to combat this concern is to incentivize safe, fuel-efficient driving. Oftentimes, aggressive driving isn’t just a hindrance to your budget; it can also cost team members their lives in the case of serious accidents. So not only can this strategy help improve fuel consumption rates, but it can also improve driver safety on the road.
Why Regular Vehicle Maintenance is Vital
Untreated vehicle damage can often lead to greater fuel consumption. In order to prevent this from happening, we recommend and offer regular tune-ups to ensure proper engine health and filter replacements to keep your fuel consumption down.
Even your tires can make a big impact on your fleet’s fuel consumption. Underinflated or overinflated tires can affect rolling resistance, which requires more energy to start and stop moving. By keeping up with your vehicle’s tire health, you can help minimize overspending on gas.
Smarter Routes for Better Fuel Savings
At Glesby Marks, we partner with Azuga Fleet GPS and Tracking Software to help maximize your visibility. By understanding where you can optimize your fleet’s routes to reduce gas usage, you can save your budget and increase driver accountability.
This system offers drivers real-time instructions on how to reach their destination in the most fuel-efficient, fastest way possible. This not only keeps fuel costs down, but keeps drivers safe on the road because of Azuga’s hands-free, eyes-on-the-road design.
How Software Analyzes Your Fuel Usage Data
So now you’ve compiled loads of data, but the real magic happens with our team’s strategic intervention. Our team of experts is trained to pinpoint patterns within your metrics. We use this to identify the main areas of your fleet fuel management that could be improved. We do this by looking at several primary key performance indicators:
- Fuel efficiency: By looking at the overall fleet as a whole, along with each driver and vehicle, we can see any discrepancies or outliers. This helps us understand if the common theme throughout your fuel consumption qualm is a widespread issue, or more of an individual, small-scale problem.
- Fuel cost per mile: This shows us the current state of fuel costs and sets a baseline for our calculations and projections. By investigating this, we get a full picture of the fuel landscape for your area.
- Idle time percentage: When a vehicle is in idle for an extended period of time, it is essentially wasting gas and valuable resources. This data can improve driver efficiency and accountability.
- Trend data: Investigating any seasonal variations, route differences, or vehicle maintenance patterns, we can learn what trends affect your operation. Once we uncover this data, we can begin to predict your costs more efficiently, which helps keep you from encountering unexpected bills and budget overspending.
- Maintenance cost impact: By looking at the impact of preventive maintenance on fleet vehicles, we can see the exact amount of money being saved by taking a proactive approach to fleet maintenance.
This data is crucial for understanding how to optimize your unique fleet fuel management needs. When you choose to work with a team like Glesby Marks, we take the guesswork out and give you the hard facts you need to improve your fleet’s efficiency.
Navigating Fleet Fuel Management Made Simple
Since 1976, Glesby Marks has sought to improve fleet fuel management for our customers. We are passionate about finding unique solutions that help improve your company’s efficiency and allow you to reach your goals. Fleet leasing doesn’t have to be complicated. With our expertise and data collection, we give you the control to increase your fleet’s productivity and profitability.
Contact us today to learn more about our fleet fuel management services!