{"id":4991,"date":"2013-07-25T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:15:31","slug":"cut-van-hire-fuel-costs-the-easy-way-with-vanrental-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4991","title":{"rendered":"Cut Van Hire Fuel Costs The Easy Way With VanRental.co.uk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FuelIn the latest edition of the vanrental.co.uk newsletter<\/a>, I took\u00a0a look at the popular habit of ‘chasing the cheapest litre of diesel’.<\/p>\n

What I mean, of course, is driving out of your way to save one or two pence per litre when filling up.<\/p>\n

The problem with doing this — apart from wasting time — is that you often end up wasting money, too.<\/p>\n

In the case of my personal van, a short wheelbase Ford Transit<\/a>, I usually get around 36mpg, which equates to a fuel cost of 17.6p per mile, assuming that diesel is 140p per litre, as it is in my area.<\/p>\n

This means that a diversion of six miles to fill up will cost me \u00a31.05.<\/p>\n

If the fuel I buy is 2p per litre cheaper than I would have paid, then I have to buy at least 52 litres before I save any money (52 x 2p = \u00a31.04).<\/p>\n

I’m sure you can see the problem – the cost of the fuel required to drive to a cheaper garage can easily be more than the money you save at the pumps. Plus you waste a load of time, probably on your way to or from work…<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a better way!<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I’ve found, through long experience, is that finding the cheapest fuel may save me a few pence, but learning to drive with a lighter right foot will save me pounds.<\/p>\n

At the start of this post, I said that my average fuel consumption was 36mpg — but I have seen it vary from 33mpg to 40mpg, depending on how I drive.<\/p>\n

On long journeys, with a light right foot and keeping motorway speeds below 65mph, I can get 40mpg. If I hoon around like Lewis Hamilton in Melbourne<\/a>, then unsurprisingly, fuel consumption drops dramatically!<\/p>\n

The upshot is that a 10% improvement in fuel consumption is quite easily achievable for many drivers — which equates to a cost saving of 1.8p per mile<\/strong>, no diversions or wasted time necessary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You too can save up to 10% on your hire van’s fuel bill — but it’s driving technique, not cheap fuel, that will deliver this magic result!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[1747,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}