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Idle Time: What's Your Number?

Learn about the impact of excessive idle time on fuel consumption and costs, and discover ways to reduce idle time and save money. This presentation highlights the factors that control idle time and offers practical solutions for minimizing fuel waste.

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Idle Time: What's Your Number?

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  1. Idling M.P.G.Mid Year Directors Meeting What’s your number? By Don Ross, Manatee District School February 8th 2013

  2. Miles Per Gallon What's your number? 4.74 6.55 3.22 5.55 5.75 11.99 12.50 5.99 7.96 13.32 12.12 12.0 11.0 1011 13.90 14.99 2.75 8.88 11.44 7.77 9.90 6.60 6.54 6.99 9.65 9.45 9.23 8.09 10.14 7.789 3.43 10.77 5.55 7.32 3.75 4.1

  3. Idle burns fuel 1.3 gallons per hour $3.90 per hour $.07 per min

  4. Excessive Idle: what a waste of time and $$ • Excessive idle Occurrences 284 • Costs $760.29 for 1 day • Costs for 185 days $140,653.65 • Costs $10.00 per student transported • Or $468.85 per employee

  5. What controls your number? Route Engine size Fuel type Options Air condition Shoe size Weight- bus- Load – fuel capacity ? Short Tall Morning Afternoon Trip Situations Speed Training Tire Spare bus New old Idle time Mechanics

  6. What controls your number? • Bus manufacture • Bus model • Drive Trane • Capacity • Lift bus • Age • Road condition • Weather • Driver new • Driver seasoned • Driver happy

  7. Driver pre trip?

  8. What is your sign?

  9. Idle Time 2012-2013 Thinking it’s time for a change?

  10. How Can You Help! No excessive Idle Time No excessive Drive Time • Turn off bus when not needed • Seat repairs bus off • Idle Time decreases mile’s between oil changes • Idle Time increases engine heat and reduces life of components • Idle Time burns fuel and waste money

  11. Its cool to be Green! What can you do? Very simple! Turn your bus off. • Bus 602 the best idle time in 2011-2012 school year! • Average 10 min and 2 seconds daily • Great Job!!!!

  12. Do you have $$ to burn? • Idle Time decreases fuel mileage • Example Bus with 25% idle time has a fuel mileage of 5.9. same bus with 10% idle time has a fuel mileage of 9.75

  13. Are you willing to change, are you sure? you want the Truth , I will give the whole truth Now change me!!

  14. Thank you for not idling!

  15. Manatee Fuel Savings Plan 2012-2013 Our proposed Recovery Plan factors in $400,000 in diesel fuel savings. We anticipate diesel fuel cost savings in three respects. One, the overall cost of diesel fuel is anticipated to drop. While every delivery of fuel we receive varies in price, information from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows a projected price drop of 6.98% in retail diesel fuel costs from 2012 to 2013. Follow information obtained from our contracted suppliers supports an anticipated average cost of $3.00 per gallon for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Two, we replaced 48 of our oldest, least fuel efficient school buses with new, highly fuel efficient buses. These new buses will increase our “mile per gallon” efficiency from 5.75 mpg to 7.70 mph for those 48 buses. Three, our new routing software has decreased idle time by approximately 50%. While idle time is a relatively small factor in our overall operating costs, those savings are real. As the worksheet shows, the District’s actual diesel fuel spend in 2011-2012 was $2,059,432. Total projected spend for 2012-2013, factoring in the above savings, is $1,594,752. Total anticipated savings from 2011-2012 to 2012-2013 is, therefore, $464,679. We rounded that figure down to $400,000 to be conservative in our estimates.

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