This document discusses the potential cost savings from reducing idling time of lift trucks. It provides a table showing the estimated hours and dollars saved per year and the return on investment period from reducing idling by 6-25 minutes per operating hour. Adopting a vehicle monitoring system called SkidWeigh Plus UT would provide insights into idling times and opportunities to improve performance and efficiency, saving substantial costs over the course of a year. Real-time visibility of vehicle usage status and idling times is an important management tool.

1. Lift Truck Fleet Size: 5
Average Labor Rate: $22
Work Hours per week: 40
# of Idling minutes (per hour): 6 minutes
Cost of SkidWeigh Plus UTX: $2,200.00
A Comparison of Dollars Saved Over the Course of a Year
Various Number of Actual Operational Idling Minutes Reduced
Reduced # of Idling
Minutes
(per operating hour)
Hours Saved per
Year
Dollars Saved per
Year
# of Months for ROI
6 1040 $22,880.00 5.77
7 1213 $26,693.00 4.95
8 1386 $30,506.00 4.33
9 1560 $34,320.00 3.85
10 1733 $38,133.00 3.46
11 1906 41,946.00 3.15
Reduced # of Idling
Minutes
(per operating hour)
Sample ROI table

2. The purpose for vehicle operational idling measurement within utilization factor is ultimately to
spot potential problems or opportunity telling you what’s going on in the areas of vehicle
uptime and operator performance.
The adaption of SkidWeigh Plus UT series technology will enable a company to take an
existing asset to provide valuable insight relating to key metrics, vehicle operational idling
times. By reducing number of material handling vehicle operational idling minutes (see table for
various reduced # of idling minutes) will lead to performance gains and substantial dollars
saved over the course of a year.
12 2080 $45,760.00 2.88
13 2253 $49,573.00 2.66
14 2426 $53,386.00 2.47
15 2600 $57,200.00 2.31
16 2773 $61,013.00 2.16
17 2946 $64,826.00 2.04
18 3120 $68,640.00 1.92
19 3293 $7,245,300 1.82
20 3466 $76,266.00 1.73
21 3640 $80,080.00 1.65
22 3813 $83,893.00 1.57
23 3986 $87,706.00 1.51
24 4160 $91,520.00 1.44
25 4333 $95,333.00 1.38
Hours Saved per
Year
Dollars Saved per
Year
# of Months for ROIReduced # of Idling
Minutes
(per operating hour)
Sample ROI table
The immediate access to the vehicle usage status and monitoring operational idling
times in real time for each vehicle and having the same data visible to the operator
is the most important management tool to maximize asset utilization and operator
efficiency.
- Integrated Visual Data Technology Inc.