Cost-cutting initiative

In another cost-cutting initiative by the marketing team at Wal-Mart, a very creative TV spot ran during the second quarter of this year. Wal-Mart in commercial truck drivers found that their "green initiatives" to reduce empty miles and consolidation programs were a key reason for Wal-Mart has rolled back prices to the consumer. A very powerful message, because most people do not associate "green initiatives" to reduce costs. We are here to tell you that all these "GreenInitiatives "provide more greenbacks in your pocket business.

Many other companies have realized cost savings, for "green initiatives". For example, Kraft Foods of huge green supply chain initiative, when it implemented an environmental effort by the deposit of 50 million truck-miles outside of its distribution network. The wagons participants barge shipments along with the consolidation of loads and the elimination of miles of emptiness.

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This put into perspective, the averageLong-haul trucks get about 6 miles per gallon of diesel fuel thus saved by these efforts, the sheer force of more than 30 million gallons of diesel fuel.

PepsiCo has been the ecological sustainability as "Performance with a purpose." Pepsi-Supply Chain Manager of its four main business segments include the responsibility to define and guide the company's environmental objectives, to reduce water consumption by 20% and fuel consumption by 25% by 2015.

PepsiCo is working with eachits 210 domestic airlines to mark and track mileage and emissions of CO2 per kilometer. PepsiCo to prevent a valve unit installed equipment from tractors at least for more than five minutes. This process alone is about 17,500 gallons of fuel a year.

The company is also the use of intermodal transport and the creation of alliances with other shippers. They are looking for partners to fill trucks to take cars off the road because rail isefficiently from the standpoint of fuel consumption and emissions. Do you think Warren Buffet knew nothing of these efficiencies, the BNSF Railway when it bought back a couple of months!

It 'clear that the large shippers are the driving force of these ecological processes with their partners carrier. Therefore, the bearers of these green initiatives, whether they like it or not enforced.

On the support, UPS has more than 100,000 trucks on the road each day. Travel1300000000 miles than a year and billions of packets, the burning of millions of gallons of fuel delivered each year. UPS 'green fleet now includes more than 2,000 vans running on everything from compressed natural gas into electricity. The CNG vans shave 15% of fuel costs in the first diesel-powered engines.

UPS has recently added 200 new hybrid / electric in its green fleet. The combined fuel economy of these 200 vehicles is equal to savings of 176,000 liters dieselOf fuel a year.

Flow UPS 'technology package optimizes the routes for each packet before being loaded onto a truck. Since its inception, this technology has eliminated 100,000,000 miles driven.

About UPS 'delivery Acquisition Device (DIAD) are electronically captured delivery information, saving more than 89 million sheets of paper per year, equivalent to 7308 trees per year.

UPS and FedEx, the shipping service more than 150,000 vehicles combinedWatching a variety of technologies including clean diesel-electric hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. They do this to satisfy the urge Washington to reduce emissions of trucks because they produce more than 30% of urban smog. No one deceive you, as well as the effect is the greatest motivator green cost savings!

The numbers are starting to add up. JD Powers and Associates estimates that more than 500,000 hybrid vehicles on the road today with 40% of themTrucks.

YRC Worldwide, one of the largest LTL carriers in the nation is facing aggressive strategies to reduce greenhouse gases and limiting truck speeds of 62 mph, the implementation of extensive use of intermodal rail services, setting limits on the truck every day to a minimum and running the inflation pressure of tires and monitoring programs.

YRC has also recently Green and balance calculator, introduced the emissions of a company to measure and compensate for the voluntary carbon dioxide emissions of their broadcasts.The computer evaluates eight transport activities that produce carbon dioxide emissions, including fuel consumption, miles-rail, airline miles and other factors.

YRC has targeted direct cargo sector. Air transport tends to be very expensive and less environmentally friendly road transport. A carrier may take into account or another carrier YRC is "reduce land expedited service, the costs and emissions of carbon dioxide. For example, shipments picked up on Thursday andFriday in California, and delivered in New York on the following Monday. Just think of the cost savings alone would make this change of thinking with his initiative to reduce carbon.

Tony Nuzio

Cost-cutting initiative

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