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Being Proactive and Utilizing the Engine Diagnostics Feature of EnGenX

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posted by: Addy Ministrator   comments: 0

Jun7,2010

Being proactive and utilizing the engine diagnostics feature of EnGenX can help reduce or eliminate down time for a carrier adding value and reducing the cost of implementing our EnGenX solution. Downtime costs a company valuable time and money. An estimated value of around $120 dollars an hour can be lost due to downtime. As an example, US Express charges $600 per day when a unit is used by a supplier. US Express considers this price their lost opportunity cost, when a truck is unavailable through testing, at $600 per day or $60 per hour.

EnGenX’s fleet management solution is able to monitor idle times.  A truck idling for one hour also suffers wear equal to about seven miles on the road. That means if a truck idles eight hours per day for 325 days of the year, for instance, it runs the maintenance equivalent of 18,000 miles and burns about 2,340 gallons of diesel (at 1.3 gallons per hour) going absolutely nowhere, hauling absolutely nothing. Even though fuel has dropped from previous highs you can still calculate savings and ROI (Return on investment ) and it still will be significant.  At $2.85 per gallon, the cost of diesel today in Indiana is still too high. Consider one truck and driver that operate 100,000 miles per year and manage to improve MPG from 6.5 MPG to 7.0 MPG from close monitoring and reducing idle time.  That 0.5 MPG improvement equates to $3,132.00 per year for one truck. Monitor speeding or poor driving. You may be able to receive a discount from your insurance company. Our On the track map, can help you track any point and it will tell you the speed they were traveling and date and time.

The implications of EnGenX’s technology offer a solution in terms of being able to manage inevitable problems. The technology is not going to prevent the problems from happening, but it does make it manageable and more beneficial for the organization. Unscheduled downtime can be a burden to any company. Issuing the proper technology can make this down time much more manageable.

For more information, visit the EnGenX website with all the information on fleet management systems, www.engenx.com.
 
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