What is Prolog’s role in fleet ESG practices?

Learn about some of the main ESG practices in fleet management and how to use Prolog solutions to apply them to your routine.

“ESG” is a concept that has grown in recent years and a strong trend in freight transport and other transport operations.

Because they work with heavy, highly polluting vehicles, industries and transport companies seek alternatives with a lower environmental impact and also favor business partnerships that prioritize and practice sustainable actions.

Learn more below:

• What ESG practices are in fleet management;
• How Prolog contributes to ESG practices.

What are ESG practices in fleet management?

ESG has three pillars, represented by its letters: Environment, Social and Governance.

• Environment: company actions that affect the environment.
• Social: actions concerning the company’s relationships with its employees, suppliers, customers, etc.
• Governance: company management actions, whether operational, administrative or managerial.

Examples of ESG practices

Recycling

Recycling and proper waste disposal are fundamental to protecting the environment, and there is no doubt that fleets and transport operations as a whole produce various types of waste as they operate.

Products such as oils and lubricants are very harmful to nature, requiring special disposal even for empty packaging — because residue remains inside. This makes these containers unsuitable for regular recycling.

You therefore need to dispose of waste correctly and pay attention to products placed among recyclable materials.

Eliminating paper

In addition to recycling paper when necessary, there are technological alternatives you can apply to fleet management that eliminate its use. In other words, you also contribute to less exploitation of natural resources.

Beyond being a sustainable fleet action, you are using a solution that reduces the number of documents to file and manage, as well as your costs for paper, printing, etc.

Another advantage is optimizing your management and team routines.

“Green” certifications

Doing business with suppliers and other partners holding this type of certification, such as ISO 14001 for environmental management, is an alternative that contributes to a more sustainable transport operation.

You can also create service level agreements (SLAs) as a way to ensure everyone involved in services takes the necessary measures to achieve ESG goals.

Controlling fuel consumption

Various fuel types harm the environment, emitting harmful gases into the atmosphere. The production of some fuels also harms and undermines sustainability through excessive exploitation of natural resources.

Two alternative ESG practices in this area of the fleet are therefore:

1. Choosing vehicles powered by less polluting fuels.
2. Controlling fuel consumption to identify above-normal spending, acting quickly to solve the problem and avoiding excessive gas emissions.

How does Prolog contribute to ESG practices?

ESG practices aimed at lower environmental impact

Proper tire disposal

With a tire management system, these fleet assets are used more effectively and last longer.

In other words, you avoid premature tire loss and, more broadly and indirectly, may avoid increased production of these items, reducing the exploitation of natural resources.

With Prolog, tires are managed to make full use of their useful life until disposal.

Lower fuel consumption

Tire management helps keep fuel consumption under control because, when tires have uneven or excessive wear, the vehicle needs more force to move.

This is what increases fuel burning and harms your operation’s performance.

By using the Prolog system, you can generate fuel savings, and you can identify their size in our savings calculator.

Reducing harmful gases

By using fuel more responsibly through proper tire management, harmful gases are also reduced. Vehicle maintenance problems that impair fuel combustion and make it incomplete also contribute to emissions of gases such as carbon monoxide (CO).

With Prolog systems for maintenance and tire control, you give vehicles the best conditions to work properly, reducing atmospheric pollution and avoiding unexpected events along a route.

ESG practices in the “social” pillar

Greater transport safety

Caring for tires and vehicle component condition is fundamental to increasing transport safety, and this is possible with the solutions offered by Prolog.

Providing the electronic checklist tool, for example, allows drivers to identify and describe their vehicle’s problem during the inspection, opening a work order in real time.

The responsible mechanic receives this WO in their system at the same moment and can speed up the necessary correction. Besides being safer for drivers, this also increases operational productivity and reduces fleet idle time.

Risk management

With Prolog, mainly through the electronic checklist system, you have access to maintenance history, allowing you to understand failure frequency, maintenance costs, problem causes and solutions applied, among other information.

You can thus generate a failure forecast to include in fleet risk management planning. You can even use our system as support for building a fault tree or understanding your vehicles’ PF curve.

These are all alternatives that allow you to understand failure potential and predict problems in your operation, providing everything you need to plan and prepare solutions in advance for likely risk situations.

Driver control

By identifying problematic items in vehicles and tires, you can understand some driver behaviors on the road and encourage different (and better) practices.

For example, if a vehicle continually has tires worn in localized areas, it may indicate that the driver brakes harshly often. Besides being dangerous and having a high probability of causing accidents, this leads to greater tire loss.

You therefore need to talk with your professionals and recommend more appropriate vehicle driving practices.

ESG practices in the “governance” pillar

Implementing a company culture

A technology and data culture is increasingly used in fleet management, and using Prolog solutions is another way to apply it to your fleet.

In addition, our systems are aimed at bringing speed, productivity, safety and savings to your operations — aspects that are also important in company culture.
Schedule a free system demonstration to learn more about our solutions and how we can contribute to your fleet’s ESG practices.