Go green, save fuel, save cash, save the planet


Going green is a recurring theme at the CV Show and one that all the industries represented there take very seriously. Cutting emissions, particularly for the road transport business is all about using less fuel, so the ‘save fuel, save cash and save the planet’ approach works at every level.


Vans and trucks are by far the most efficient way to move goods in the UK. For instance, the nation’s half million strong truck fleet moves five times as much freight now as it did 50 years ago, but there are no more trucks on the road now than there were then. Today’s half million trucks work much more intensively, carrying more freight and using less fuel for each tonne carried.


That performance is an enormous testimony to the growing efficiency of road transport and its operators and a great contribution to environmental protection. Efficiency is also a constant theme throughout this year’s CV Show.


Well over 350 exhibitors have already signed up for this year's event and the organisers say it is on course for success at Birmingham’s NEC from 12-14 April 2011. For three days the CV Show will be the focus of the industry, with exhibitors using it as the main platform to launch lots of new products and services and visitors looking for ways to do their jobs more efficiently, saving cash, fuel and the planet.


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To help visitors find the fuel-cutting, planet-saver deals the CV Show’s organisers have arranged green, fuel-pump logos and will use these in the CV Show Guide to highlight those green deals. Look and you’ll find them used to help promote an enormous range of vehicles and their supporting products and services.


The Show has attracted truck makers like DAF, Hino, MAN, Mercedes-Benz and Iveco dealer Guest Trucks, as well as van makers Ashworths, Citroën, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, Supertrucks, Tata and Volkswagen among a huge line-up of firms offering supporting products and services.


Every one of those vehicle makers will show systems to cut fuel use and emissions. Ideas include hybrid power, battery-electric or gas power at one end of the spectrum through to lightweight and very high cubic capacity bodywork. This for instance may mean one trip instead of two.


Aerodynamic aids, tyre pressure monitoring kit, on-board axle weighing systems, telematics monitoring can all help make fuel go further. For instance, on-board axle weighing systems can show that a van or truck is overloaded or under-loaded.


Overloaded, your van or truck probably breaks the law and almost certainly uses more fuel. But under-loading can be just as expensive a fault. It wastes capacity and ultimately uses more fuel to do the job, as Axtec on stand 5J64 will tell you.


Say fuel monitoring and most operators think of computer-controlled fuel flow meters on a vehicle. Often with a telematic link back to base, these mean a transport manager can monitor each driver’s performance and encourage those who use most fuel to do things differently. Sophisticated, computer-controlled stuff like this can pay for itself refreshingly quickly.


But what about the bunkered fuel stocks, who monitors those? Cameron Forecourt, on stand 4B70 sells a kit to do just that. The firm says it is often amazed how little operators know about their fuel stocks. Poor monitoring can hide short deliveries, long-term leaking tanks and unauthorised fuel use. Once again, the right technology can quickly pay for itself.

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