GOOD PRACTICE CASE STUDY 398 - Fuel champion saves equivalent of 50 trailer loads of carbon dioxide a year - BOC Ltd

Abstract:

In the UK the BOC Group operates some 2,000 large delivery vehicles Its Bulk Gas Delivery Vehicle section alone operates over 200 vehicles with an annual fuel spend of £5 5 million A fleet of over 700 vehicles, delivering gas cylinders, consumes fuel worth a similar annual sum.

With 'state-of-the-art' vehicles and expert drivers, BOC might have thought that its fleet's efficiency could not be improved However, with the rising price of DERV and its influence on the fleet total running costs, BOC Senior Managers decided to set fuel saving targets for the Bulk Gas Delivery Fleet The BOC Board set the fleet a target of fuel savings worth £340,000, which represented about 3% of the previous year's fuel costs Group Fleet Engineer, Mr Jon Ostle, and Operations Support Manager, Mr Mark Badkin, considered the task to be very challenging.

BOC Gases has demonstrated how it significantly reduced both its fleet energy costs produced, and the amount of exhaust emissions by applying a truly professional approach

Their recipe for success included:

Publication Year:

2002

Publisher:

Department for Transport

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No DOI minted

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DfT