ROI Numbers: Idling Monitoring
Hello everyone! There’s lots of talk out there about monitoring idling as a way to cut costs. For our first post, I thought we’d get right into some ROI numbers to give you food for thought:
- According to the DOT, an average truck burns 0.9 gallons of fuel per hour idling. A typical owner with 5 vehicles idling for about 1 hour a day is wasting 4.5 gallons of fuel each day. At an average fuel cost of $5.67 US per gallon, that’s $25.54 US a day, $127.72 a week and $6,641.44 US a year. (GEOTrac)
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- 60 minutes of idling is equivalent to between 80 and 120 minutes of driving time. The resulting loss of fuel economy from excessive idling can add up to 800 gallons of fuel annually for the average truck. (Argonne National Laboratories)
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- Reducing idle time by 10% increases efficiency by 1 mpg to 2 mpg, and most fleets achieve more than a 55% reduction in idle time within 6 weeks of implementing a GPS fleet management program. A fleet of 5 vehicles loses, on average, around $1600 per year, per vehicle, by not managing engine idling. (Integrated Solutions, January 2008)
