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Monitor cuts fuel fiddles
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• Almost five years ago at the Geneva Motor Show, Derek Carroll and his brother John, who run CPH Transport at Birdingbury, Warwickshire, saw a Swiss-made monitoring device. They became the sole importer of two types of AIC fuel monitor costing 2857 and 2395 and marketed them.
But after selling some 600 units in Britain — plus a batch to Hong Kong — sales have fallen to the point where, while they say they are not losing money, they are seriously considering the future of AIC (UK). While many hauliers say they are very satisfied, Carroll says most fleet engineers are clearly not interested in cutting fuel bills and "clearly must condone the fuel fiddles that go on especially on trans-continental journeys".
Says Carroll: "Even an owner-driver covering 80,000 miles annually, buying fuel at pump prices, could buy and fit the monitor and save himself at least 2900 in the first year and nearer 22,000 subsequently."
He adds: "Perhaps fuel is too cheap. If it cost 210 a gallon everyone would immediately want a fuel monitor."
The company also markets portable 12-volt Tacho Discoanalyzers and fuel heaters.
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