Commercial Vehicle Fleet Efficiency

The Ministry of Transport has commissioned and undertaken research on the management of fuel efficiency in New Zealand commercial vehicle fleets.

The research found that:

• better driver and fleet-operator training and fleet management is a very cost-effective way to increase business productivity, maximise fuel savings and reduce accidents
• the commercial vehicle transport industry currently under-invests in driver training, mainly due to high turn-over in drivers and as a result the potential benefits are not realised
• the industry is concerned about the lack of robust, independent, reliable, authoritative and accessible information in New Zealand to enable better fleet management
• other countries already have a number of highly successful programmes in place to realise the benefits from better training and fleet management.

The commissioned research is described in two reports:

• Fleet Commitment Initial Work Programme Trial (PDF v7.0, 2.16mb) by Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Limited 

• Survey on Fleet Fuel Efficiency in the Heavy and Light Commercial Vehicle Fleet (PDF v7.0, 1.75mb) by Kissling Consulting Limited (NZ) and Imise Limited (UK).

For more information on this research, contact the Ministry.