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Reduce Your
Driving Costs
The way you drive can affect your income. Couriers were renowned
for using excessive speed, the attitude being, the sooner
I get this job done- the sooner I can start on the next. Unfortunately
in this day and age, this reasoning doesn’t stand up
to scrutiny. For a start off you may not have another job
to go to, and taking on too much work can result in excessive
driving hours, something the new C.P.C. has been brought in
to combat.
But let’s talk about saving money first. The government
have been pushing manufactures to produce vehicles which are
less harmful to the environment, and do more miles to the
gallon/litre. Manufacturers have tackled this on several fronts,
firstly vans are now more aerodynamic increasing efficiency,
secondly by reducing weight, and thirdly most ,if not all,
new vans now have six gears.
The weight reductions mostly in the engines increases efficiency,
in the short term at a future cost.
What influences your driving costs, is the way you drive.
If the vehicle you are driving is fitted with a rev counter,
you will be able to control your costs much easier. For instance
you can see the dramatic difference in speed between fifth
gear and sixth at a specific revolution. At 200 revs per minute
in fifth gear, you can expect your vehicle to travel at around
45 m.p.h. in sixth gear you can expect to be doing 60 m.p.h.
using only 2000 revs. The lesson being...Read
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Reduce Your Driving Costs Part
2 I have
been driving vans and wagons for the last 50 years, with only
1 endorsements for speeding [In a Sprinter] and no accidents.
Times have changed a lot during that time, vehicles have got
faster, roads are better, speed cameras have been invented,
mobile phones and sat navs are the two inventions we can’t
live without, or so we think. Seven or eight years ago I could
drive to probably around 1000 different industrial estates around
the country, with out even looking at a map. Nothing spectacular
in that, every wagon driver and courier could do the same. About
this time I was on 24 hour standby for a large printing firm,
I would get a call to pick up a load, when I collected the load
and asked for the address, if I was lucky they gave me the name
of the firm I had to deliver to, more often than not all the
night staff new was the initials of the firm, occasionally they
knew the town. [This was all the information the night staff
had on their work ticket.]
Now you get the full name and address along with the postcode
of your drop, plus usually a name and telephone number of the
customer [ a necessity if it is a night drop] This is where
the sat nav and mobile come into their own. The question you
have to ask yourself is: How much money am I losing trusting
the sat nav? Read
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Save the Planet
& Save Money
I know
you are fed up about everybody going on about saving the planet,
but it is time everyone took full responsibility for their
actions, especially as it can save you money. Van drivers
cause about 15% of the pollution, not a lot you might think.
A gallon of diesel, whatever the vehicle, euro rating, or
size of the engine produces 11.96 kg of co2 [2.63 kg per litre]
Currently the only way to reduce the amount you are expelling
per journey is to increase the m.p.g. of your vehicle. This
can be done by using simply driving techniques, and can increase
your m.p.g. by as much as 10%. This
increases profitability, and puts more money in your pocket.
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RFT Express Mission
Statement 2010 2009
was a good year for RFT Express Couriers, with a 34% increase
in business during 2009, from the previous year. The majority
of new accounts gained in 2009, have resulted in repeat business
with 45% of the total number of new accounts resulted in being
contract work. Contract work is regular runs repeated daily,
weekly or monthly, which makes it easier to manage the increase.
European runs contributed 25% of the total increase, with
Italy now taking the number one spot from Germany.
For 2010 the target increase is 35% on the 2009 figures. RFT
Express Couriers have identified 150 plus companies who will
be able to benefit from RFT ‘s expertise in our niche
market of ’Hanging garment
deliveries UK and Europe.’
Google contributed a considerable amount of visitors, with
this search term, coming at no 1&2 in most European searches,
with enquiries from North Africa, and as far away as China.
Bing the Microsoft owned search engine didn’t list us
in the UK searches on the first page, but they did put us
at no 1 in the world search... Read
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