By Tara Gwin, Commercial Fuels Account Manager
Added May 13, 2009
As a Commercial Fuels Account Manager at CarterEnergy Corporation, I continuously hear the same comments from our customers and prospects: “We are trying to cut costs this year” or “We are trying to save money,” and the list goes on.
We all know the state of the economy is less than ideal. But that is NOT an excuse to hang your head and give up! Now is the time to turn over every rock, explore every possibility, and look at all options to save money! What are you doing to save your company money? What have you taken to your boss lately that can show him or her how to cut costs? If you answer is… well…nothing…then we need to talk!
One of the things we constantly strive to do here at CarterEnergy is to figure out how to keep our customers healthy, in order to keep our company healthy. So we looked at our CarterEnergy fleet of fuel trucks and thought, “What can we do to save money on fuel for our fleet?” After plugging some numbers and analyzing our fleet, we came up with an idling calculator that showed us how much money we were LOSING when our trucks stayed in idle for extended periods of time. Yes Idling! Who knew? Super excited with our new discovery, we thought, “If this saved CarterEnergy money on our fleet, I bet it could save our customers money too!” and alas, the “Idling Calculator” was born.
We’ve passed this on to a few or our customers and the cost savings was mind boggling. It’s completely changed the way some of these customers operate their fleet.
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