Episode 15 :: Saving fuel in business - transcript

[Animated opening sequence, music and title:  EECA Business: The Energy Spot]

Open on Jared getting out of a small car, it’s a Prius.  We see machinery in the background.  He says to us:

Running a vehicle can be an expensive business, but what if you’ve got more than one?

We pull back to show that Jared is standing in a quarry – and we see, lined up in a row, are some huge vehicles: Trucks loaded with aggregate, plus a few smaller trucks, and other vehicles – the Winstone Aggregates fleet.

Jared is dwarfed by the truck at the front, its wheel is almost as high as him with huge tread - it’s massive.

Winstone Aggregates are cutting their fleet running costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars and making their business more competitive. Right Brett?

Jared is now joined by Brett Horrobin a graphic appears with his details:

Brett Horrobin, Transport Manager  | Winstone Aggregates

Brett now takes us through the company’s fuel-efficiency strategy, he shows Jared the engine of one of the trucks to see how huge the engine is and Brett says:

Well Jared, we choose modern fuel-efficient engines that work hard, have lower emissions and drink less.

The two are standing next to the huge front tyre, and Jared says:

Properly inflated tyres play a big role too eh?

Brett replies:

Absolutely.

Now the two go round the back of the truck and we see the load is being secured as Brett says:

We cover our trailers, whether loaded or not, to reduce drag, saving around 8% in fuel.

We see shots of Brett interacting with a driver, a laptop on the seat has images of telemetry graphs. As we see a graph that reads ‘Fleet Fuel Efficiency – Nov 09’ Brett says:

Driver support is key, so we put ours on a fuel-efficient driving course.

We cut to Jared climbing the stairs up to the truck’s cab, Brett follows in him up and says:

Even cutting back on engine idling saves us a lot.

Now we cut to Jared and Brett inside a dumper, Brett says:

By doing all of these things, the investment has paid itself back within a year and we’re now on track for saving $335,000, every year.

Jared looks down and reaches for a lever, he pushes it forward and says:

I’ve always wanted to do this.

We cut outside to see the hydraulics kick in and the back of the truck lifting up, tonnes of aggregate is delivered into a huge pile, Jared jumps out of the cab looks pretty satisfied with that, as he sums up:

No matter how many vehicles you have, find out how to save a big load of money on your fuel bills at eecabusiness.govt.nz

[Animated ending sequence and music]

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