The John Lewis Partnership is going green by cutting down the annual fuel consumption of their fleet of Waitrose and John Lewis trucks. Daimler FleetBoard telematics hardware has been installed on all vehicles, a move JLP hopes will lead to four per cent less carbon emissions and a reduction in fuel consumption of one million litres or more.

The system analyses driver performance against a range of criteria and highlights areas such as revving, braking, idling, speeding and ‘green band’ driving where improvements can be made to realise environmental and cost benefits.

Ray Collington, fleet engineer for JLP, says: “Our target is to achieve an absolute reduction in operational CO2 emissions by 2020/21 of 15 per cent, against a baseline of 2010/11. On the evidence of the trials we’ve undertaken, we’re hoping that FleetBoard will help us achieve carbon savings of over four per cent from our fleet.”

JLP is also optimistic that its adoption of Daimler FleetBoard’s market-leading technology will result in significantly lower maintenance and repair costs, and reduce its already low accident rate even further.

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