What we love about Lightfoot is that its sole focus is on improving driver efficiency from the moment they turn on the ignition. Within a couple of days of using the tool we see many of our drivers go from spending 55%-60% of their time in the green zone to hitting 90% and higher. \u00a0Our savings in fuel costs speak for themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Lightfoot system monitors acceleration, revs and idling and provides traffic-light style greed, amber and red feedback to the driver, who is able to adjust their driving technique in real time. Feedback to fleet managers is limited to a single email every week, summarising each driver’s performance and the associated fuel cost and CO2 savings, so Lightfoot isn’t overly intrusive or time-intensive to manage.<\/p>\n
I know from personal experience that driving technique and a heavy right foot can make a big difference to the fuel consumption of modern vans, and 15% sounds pretty realistic to me — it is broadly the same as what I’ve achieved in my own Ford Transit. The Lightfoot system is essentially a more sophisticated version of the gear change indicators that have already appeared on current model Fords (and other marques), and I expect to see this kind of thing become more widespread over the next few years, as high fuel prices continue to motivate drivers to improve their vehicle’s efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Autoglass was the first major UK fleet to roll out the EcoDrive Lightfoot driver efficiency system across its entire fleet, and has seen fuel savings of 15% plus major reductions in CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1752,1797,729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434"}],"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=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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It’s no secret that one of the main causes of poor fuel consumption is the person operating the pedals, and fleet drivers with no accountability for fuel or maintenance costs can sometimes be costing their companies a significant amount of money — often without even realising it.<\/p>\n