FUEL SAVINGS TIPS
for Powersweeping Businesses
Fuel expense is a major cost concern for all power sweeping business budget managers. There are numerous ways to reduce fuel costs significantly... Many business owners may not be aware of
operators can significantly cut fuel waste and
some of the less obvious but highly effective
save cost.
methods of cutting fuel waste. Below is an
FUEL COST SAVINGS TIPS FOR POWERSWEEPING BUSINESSES
abundant list of great ways to help minimize fuel costs for sweeper operation. These
Here’s a great list of fuel-saving solutions,
recommendations are provided by Industry
some familiar and others less obvious. Some
experts, including a NAPSA Board Member, a
of the tips are specific to power sweeping
specialist from the country’s premier power
trucks and others apply to all field services
sweeping equipment manufacturer, and
vehicles. These recommendations are
power sweeping contractors featured in our
provided by industry authorities, to help
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power sweeping businesses save as much as
WHY ARE POWERSWEEPING FUEL COSTS HIGHER THAN NECESSARY?
possible on fuel costs: FUELING
Fuel bills for busy power sweeping businesses
4 TOP OFF TANKS — In diesel trucks, keep
can run tens of thousands of dollars per
your tanks topped off. That helps keep water
month. Between fuel prices and routing and
out of your fuel system. Having ambient air
training deficiencies, there is a tremendous
inside the tank will get water in your fuel.
amount of collective fuel waste across
Keeping fuel topped off fills the space so that
the industry in any given period. From
you don’t have as much space in the tank
running rear engines at 1600/1800 rpm
for ambient air to be, and so it’s less space
while sweeping, when 1100 was enough,
for water condensation to build up. That’s a
to traveling at 70 mph instead of 65 mph
bigger concern here in the southern Midwest
between accounts, to various maintenance
and the southeast. It’s probably not as
and equipment purchasing issues, power
much of a problem in the desert southwest,
sweeping experts have found myriad ways
where there is not as much of an issue with
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