CONTRACTOR VS FUEL
In the highly competitive contractor market, fuel is fast becoming a key battle ground, with contractors in particular looking at making strategic moves to cut and cap fuel costs. Here ????????? from Ingrebourne Valley explains how technology, new equipment and a fuel promise has impacted the business, creating a more fuel aware culture.
“Whether you are looking at tendering for new business, or in our case making strategic decisions about your fleet mix for large earthworks, understanding the impact of fuel costs is vital.
“We all know that the market is very tough at the moment and we see the competition continuing to be very aggressive, even as demand increases.
"YES WE KNOW THAT FUEL EFFICIENCY IS A LOT TO DO WITH THE OPERATOR, BUT WITH ANY EQUIPMENT YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT FUEL ECONOMY YOU WILL ACTUALLY GET."
Explaining more on the fuel promise, Finning Product Specialist, Ian Chapman said: “The industry has to move on and away from simply quoting economy figures to customers and battling between us to say which product is better than the other.
By making this Finning Fuel Promise that a unit will not consume more than a fixed amount of fuel per hour, we are helping customers to fix costs. Fuel is the one variable that if brought under control can really make an immediate impact and with a new equipment fuel promise like ours, it will also help others see that replacing equipment is not just good for the environment, but good for business.
To keep control of our costs, we have chosen to run our own plant fleet, in conjunction with our sister company CJ Pryor. Naturally, this means we have looked at a replacement cycle that keeps units fresh, particularly recently with the new emissions regulations coming into play.
For example, with our current project in Rainham, where we are building 27 new holes for what will be a luxury 36 hole golf course, we are having to shift, shape and process thousands of tonnes of inert material. With up to 400 lorry loads of equipment entering the site each day and some difficult ground conditions, we were really conscious of machine selection and product matching.
“In this application, a higher level of productivity was required, so we recognised that highly fuel efficient equipment like the Cat 336E Hybrid Excavator, was more suited to the task at hand.
But as everyone knows, when it comes to achieving the fuel consumption rates advertised by manufacturers, there is often a discrepancy between what is on paper and what happens in reality.
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