Some advice is timeless.
In 2017, NACFE issued recommendations on ways any fleet and driver could readily improve their fuel economy. Run On Less 2017 followed seven late model year diesel trucks in real-world conditions, driven efficiently by expert fleet drivers such as Joel Morrow of Ploger Transportation, Clark Reed of Nussbaum Transportation, and Henry Albert of Albert Transport.
Those seven fleets averaged more than 10 MPG over the three-week period of the Run, including dealing with two hurricanes. Someone recently reposted this slide from the report we did about the Run on social media and seeing it got me thinking: Good advice is good advice, even if it’s old.
Just to put “old” good advice in perspective, I happened on an issue of Life magazine from December 7, 1942, published one year to the day after America’s entry into World War II.
Take a step back in time with me and picture the U.S. well on its way to becoming the “arsenal of democracy,” where the entire U.S. industrial base transitioned to arming and supplying the world in the fight with a singular focused mission: to preserve democracy.
Picture the need for strategic materials being so great that companies like Heinz had to stop putting sauces in tin cans so the tin could be diverted to the war effort. The automotive industry stopped producing cars to build war materiel like tanks, trucks, air planes and more. On the home front, people were asked to maintain their cars, as-is, for the duration of the war, meaning stretching out tire life indefinitely, and repairing with whatever resource was available.
