The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) recently released its eighth annual Fleet Fuel Study.
The report includes the results of a deep-dive investigation into the adoption of various products and practices for improving freight efficiency among 21 major North American fleets.
Fleets providing data for this 2019 study include Bison Transport, C&S, Cardinal Logistics, CFI, CR England, Crete, Frito-Lay, Hirschbach, Maverick, Mesilla Valley Transportation, NFI Industries, Nussbaum, Paper Transport, Prime, Schneider, United Parcel Service and Werner.
Report findings include:
- The 21 fleets are increasing their adoption rate of 85 fuel-saving technologies and practices. In 2003, the adoption rate was 17%; in 2018 it was 45%.
- The average fleet-wide fuel economy of the trucks in this study was 7.27 mpg in 2018.
- For the 16 years of this study, the average rate of improvement in MPG is 2.0%.
- The fleets in the study are saving $9,912 over the national average of 5.98 MPG. If fuel costs had been at the four-year average of $3.89 per gallon, the savings would have been $7,941 and $12,124, respectively.
- The 21 fleets operating 73,844 trucks saved $895,318,953 in 2018 compared to the average trucks on the road.
Study conclusions include:
- Multiple factors are influencing fleet adoption.
- Fleets continue to adopt fuel-saving technologies.
- Manufacturers accelerated delivery of technologies.
- A significant gap to best-of-the-best still exists.
The complete report is available at nacfe.org/annual-fleet-fuel-studies.
