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Driving me crazy
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There's no fuel like an oil fuel — but efficiency and returns are another matter, as Barry Proctor knows to his cost..
People close to you can often level the cruellest criticisms, simply because they know you better than anyone else. Sc when my wife told me that I drove like an old woman, it feft a dagger to the heart. How could she say such a thing?
I drive carefully and considerately, pulling away gently fn junctions and coming to a gradual halt with the minimum o revs used throughout. I mean, how could she consider that as in any way comparable with an old dear on her way to the supermarket? Oh. Perhaps she has a point.
But then I got to thinking. Is this such a bad thing? Comp, with my wife, who clearly thinks she's Michael Schumacher get much better fuel economy from the car. Miles to the gal rather than the other way round. How do I know this? My ca tells me, thanks to it's telemetry systems. Some of my truck: do too, thanks to similar technology, and it tells me which drivers are cursed with a heavy right foot. In fact, so detaile is the analysis that the other week I could pinpoint the fact that our Saturday morning truck wash men were leaving thE engines running while they cleaned. So I know which of my drivers need to change their ways in order to save money a ultimately, I suppose, to help the environment.
I've been told that publishing the data in a weekly league table causes almost unprecedented falls in fuel consumptiE as drivers compete to be the lightest on their toes, so to sp€ So Urn slightly puzzled as to why we can't spend some of the vast amount of money still sloshing around in the Road Haulage Modernisation Fund on fuel-monitoring technolog such as this. Instead, we have the SAFED (Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving) scheme which seems to be about teachin, drivers to suck eggs. What better way to haul the industry into the 21st century than to offer telematics-type equipmen Given the patchy take-up of the money so far, wouldn't it be better to offer hauliers something that they might actually m " Compared with my dearly thinks she Schumacher, I get m fuel economy from