{"id":7641,"date":"2024-10-02T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/blog\/math-minute-fleet-savings\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:01:20","slug":"math-minute-fleet-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/blog\/math-minute-fleet-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Minute: This quick formula reveals fleet management cost savings from a minute saved per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ask the value of a minute is more than a philosophical exercise. For <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/for-governments\/\">municipal waste haulers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/for-waste-haulers\/\">private haulers<\/a> alike, it\u2019s a practical one \u2014 and there\u2019s a definitive answer that can lead to important savings.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to operate a waste collection vehicle in most of North America has been estimated at a minimum of $100 per hour, accounting for drivers, fuel, maintenance, and more. That\u2019s about $1.67 per minute. On the surface, it\u2019s a small number, but savings of just one minute per day, per truck add up quickly. Across a larger fleet, the fleet management cost savings are far too significant to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick example: A fleet of 25 trucks operating six days a week for a year \u2014 each saving a minute a day \u2014 eventually recoups $13,000 in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Try it for yourself below!<\/p>\n<h3>Waste Hauler ROI Calculator<\/h3>\n<p>Calculate your potential annual savings based on the number of trucks in your fleet and the minutes saved per truck each day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ask the value of a minute is more than a philosophical exercise. For waste haulers, it\u2019s a practical one \u2014 and there\u2019s a definitive answer that can lead to important savings.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-blog","aud-government","aud-hauler","loc-north-america","sol-business-operations","sol-collection-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}