REPORT:
NEW TRUCKING CONFIDENCE
REPORT RELEASED ON
TRANSMISSIONS
“Automated Manual Transmissions are ready for
prime time, offer a strong business case and
enable other technologies and benefits.”
Mike Roeth, Operation Lead, Trucking Efficiency
December 19 2014, New York,
Transmission technologies can mitigate fuel costs and the driver shortage, two
issues that have plagued fleet owners, according to a new Trucking Efficiency
Confidence Report released today by NACFE and the Carbon War Room. The
report looks at electronically controlled transmissions, and concludes that fleets can
realize a 1–3% fuel economy improvement when they switch to automated manual
transmissions. These transmissions also expand the pool of potential drivers
significantly, improve driver recruitment, and help retain drivers already on the
payroll.
The report documents the benefits and challenges of electronically controlled
transmissions, provides information on products currently on the market, and offers
end-user perspectives and experiences. One of the challenges was defining
terminology. There are two types of electronically controlled transmissions on the
market: automated manuals and automatics. While fleets tend to use the word
automatics to describe any electronically controlled transmission, the report defines
the two types and makes distinctions about their acceptance and use.
The Confident Report also contains three key tools to help in the decision making
process:
1. A confidence matrix for comparing the study team’s confidence in the technology
vs. the payback a fleet should expect to receive from adopting it into their fleet.
2. A payback calculator for comparing two or more of the situations and/or
equipment selections available to a fleet, using the fleet’s own data or their own best
estimates.
3. A comparison chart detailing features of the electronically controlled
transmissions currently on the market.
ABOUT CONFIDENCE REPORTS
This report is part of our Confidence Report series, intended to help end users and
manufacturers determine whether to adopt a specific technology or set of solutions.
The series also includes tire pressure systems (August 2013), 6x2 axle
configurations (January (2014), idle reduction technology (June 2014), and
upcoming reports on programmable engine parameters and tires. Promising
technologies for additional Confidence Reports are being identified.
Trucking Efficiency created an interactive information platform at
www.truckingefficiency.org that will help users make more confident decisions by
providing detailed information on efficiency technologies, including data from across
a variety of fleets and best practices for adoption.
For more information or to become a sponsor, contact Mike Roeth at:
mike.roeth@nacfe.org.
TRUCKING EFFICIENCY
Trucking Efficiency is a combined effort of the North American Council for Freight
Efficiency and Carbon War Room to double the freight efficiency of North American
goods movement through the elimination of market barriers to information, demand,
and supply.
For more information go to:TruckingEfficiency.org
Or for press interviews, contact Mike Roeth at:
mroeth@carbonwarroom.com or mike.roeth@nacfe.org
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR
FREIGHT EFFICIENCY
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to doubling the freight efficiency of North American goods
movement. NACFE operates as a nonprofit in order to provide an independent,
unbiased research organization for the transformation of the transportation industry.
Data is critical and NACFE is proving to help the industry with real-world information
that fleets and others can use to take action.
For more information go to: www.nacfe.org
CARBON WAR ROOM
Carbon War Room is a global nonprofit, founded by Sir Richard Branson and a team
of like-minded entrepreneurs, that accelerates the adoption of business solutions
that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the low-carbon
economy. The organization focuses on solutions that can be realized using proven
technologies under current policy landscapes.
For more information go to: www.carbonwarroom.com