Couriersdepot.com is proud to partner with PostTag, a leader in precision location technology that offers significant environmental benefits for delivery companies. By enhancing location accuracy, PostTag helps reduce unnecessary travel, fuel usage, and the carbon footprint of any delivery company—in more ways than you may realise.
Reducing Wasted Miles and Emissions
In 2023 alone, PostTag's clients saved a staggering 64 million miles of excess travel. That's a lot of wasted journeys, but how many could you add up in a week or a month, and what would that equate to over a year? The cost savings multiply.
We interviewed PostTag's founder, Keith Lewin, at 8Club in London earlier this summer to learn more about its origins and how the technology works;
Where's Our Cement?
For haulage companies, precise delivery locations ease considerable savings, given the sheer cost of operating such vehicles—imagine the fuel and maintenance costs that reducing those wasted journeys could realise. By way of example, consider a scenario where a truck carrying essential goods is delayed due to inaccurate address data, leading to disruption in the project build. With PostTag, supplies arrive on site every time - helping that haulage firm keep its promises.
Why PostTag Excels
PostTag stands out from other location services due to its unique approach. It leverages data from multiple sources to provide precise longitude and latitude coordinates, starkly contrasting the average 145-meter inaccuracy of technology that uses the postcode system—now an archaic basis for finding the correct address accurately and one that can only give a 'location approximation' to an address. Indeed, based on a 120-drop delivery round, PostTag saves an average of 90 seconds per delivery.
Sustainability and Efficiency
We researched the cost of running a fleet of vehicles, using a fleet number of ten — for ease of multiplication and how this might most easily translate for your operation, be it courier van or HGV.
• Courier vans averaging 40,000 miles per annum: £14,500 - £20,000.
• For 10 HGVs, based on the industry average of 125,00 miles per annum, £40 - 64,000. (Source: crownoil.co.uk, hgvrecruitmentcentre.co.uk and various trade publications)
While your current fleet's estimated annual maintenance costs may align with these figures, adopting PostTag's technology could significantly increase efficiencies and reduce these costs. Less maintenance means less vehicle downtime - your fleet is earning more, not costing more.
Another aspect to bare in mind is that, by optimising delivery routes and reducing unnecessary travel, PostTag helps companies lower their environmental impact while increasing operational efficiency—lower emissions and less fuel consumption - and with the added simplicity of being an easy-to-integrate API plug-in, the savings can be swiftly realised. Either way, it's a win/win.
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