Mobile servicing can cut carbon emissions by 97%, says report15 January 2014

Using a mobile maintenance provider can deliver carbon savings of 97%, compared with workshop-based servicing.

That's among findings of an independent environmental report, commissioned by trailer repair and maintenance specialist Bullwell Trailer Solutions to highlight the benefits of its mobile service.

Lichfield-based Bullwell believes that, rather than drivers having to take HGVs to the nearest workshop, vehicles with the lowest carbon emissions should do the travelling. Hence its 55 mobile engineers, based from Glasgow to Exeter.

Bullwell appointed Green Dart Consulting to measure its overall carbon emissions and to quantify the effect that this approach has on environmental performance.

When compared to workshop-based providers, the report shows Bullwell reduces carbon emissions by 75% on average for trailer servicing and MOTs – with one client achieving 97%.

This equates to 90kg of carbon per trailer per year, meaning that a customer with a fleet of 200 trailers could save more than 18 tonnes of carbon each year.

Kevin Tomlinson (pictured), finance director, says: "We decided to commission and publish details of the company's carbon emissions to demonstrate best practice and to identify potential carbon savings to current and future customers."

Total annual emissions for the business were 712 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent – with fuel consumed by the mobile service vans the highest contributor, at 93%.

Tomlinson says Bullwell is taking action to reduce this, by upgrading its fleet to more efficient vehicles, while also improving driver behaviour and vehicle routing.

Bullwell manages more than 5,000 vehicles for its clients, including HGVs and PSVs.

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Laura Cork

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