Trucking Efficiency - New Transmissions Report

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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.orgOr for press interviews, contact Mike Roeth at:mroeth@carbonwarroom.commike.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 ROOMCarbon 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

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