Andy Burns wrote:
Arfa Daily wrote:

am I just being cynical in thinking that if
Stobarts got the approval to roll this out across their fleet of
curtain-siders, they would save the wages of one sixth of their
drivers ...

My thoughts exactly, companies only "care" about eco-bollox to the
extent it increases profits.

As the biggest single cost in haulage now is fuel, in this case, the two
coincide. Fuel consumption per lorry mile would probably increase by
about 5% or less, as most of the effort at motorway speed is overcoming
air resistance, and that would only show a marginal increase over the
normal units.

I'd expect fuel savings per ton/mile carried to be at least 5%, bearing
in mind that the Tesco lorries don't run anywhere near their maximum
permitted gross weight. That pays about half the drivers' wages,
according to the back of this envelope. The other half could be
recovered by decreasing the maximum speed of the lorries to 50mph from
the current 56mph.

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Tciao for Now!

John.