Volvo Trucks - How fuel efficiency can finance an entire new fleet

For almost all transport companies, fuel accounts for more than a third of running costs, so how the fuel efficiency is handled, of course, plays an important role for the bottom line. It's often the easy things that can make a big difference - the way the driver handles the vehicle, that it is serviced correctly and equipped for the task at hand. Sometimes it is simply a matter of using the right truck for the job. This is particularly true for Ren Moodley in South Africa whose current haulage company with over 35 trucks was created by the savings he made from his very first Volvo truck. When we went over to Volvo... The only way to say it is you must buy the pie... If you eat the pie, you can get the taste of the pie. When we bought the first Volvo and when we went out to Cape Town, the savings we had against the truck that we were running, we saved 700 litres of fuel. That's the thing that made me change over to Volvo. Apart from looking at the rest, the fuel is our main expense in our business. Fuel efficiency and where we are today with that - the first one that we purchased in 2006, on its maiden trip to Cape Town, we saved 700 litres of fuel compared to another European truck that we had been running at the time. Based on that, if you take 700 litres now, in rand value, you're looking at 7,000 rand. We do six trips like that in a month. That's 42. Basically, seven sixes are 42. 42,000 rand a month we'll be saving on our fuel bill. With the savings that we got out of Volvo, we paid for the rear instalment, we paid the maintenance and, plus, we paid the insurance. We didn't have to look for money. At the same time, that's what's given us the chance to grow our business up to the size we are now. Success story. What's yours?