Environment
CPX is responding in various ways to reduce carbon emissions, improve fuel efficiency and reduce other environmental impact that are of growing importance throughout the transportation sector.
Equipment - Our operating footprint is lightened by investing in the latest equipment and ensuring it remains well-maintained. With more than 90% of CPX's truck fleet under five years of age, we have the benefit of the latest innovations in fuel-efficiency and emissions control. We ensure that the fleet is maintained to the highest standards in the industry. We also make extensive use of innovative refrigerated trailers which improve load-capacity efficiency relative to fuel consumption.
As a value added service to our owner operators we provide monthly reviews of three performance factors (ROI) that affect their fuel economy. We instituted this program with all company trucks in 2008 and saw a significant improvement in a short time. The drivers wanted the feedback and quickly became very competitive in improving their fuel efficiency.
- RPM Progressive Shifting – Drivers shifting quickly in lower gears prevents over-revving, which decreases fuel consumption. Fuel economy will improve by approximately five percent by reducing time with the engine over the recommended rpm.
- Over speed –above 55 mph, each 1 mph increase in vehicle speed decreases fuel economy by 0.1 MPG.
- Idle time is costly. Every hour of idle time in a long-haul operation can decrease fuel economy by 1% as the truck is burning fuel and not moving.
CPX is both CARB and TRU compliant. We invest in an array of fuel efficient initiatives such as trailer fairings and wind shears for the back of the trailers offering fuel savings of 5% - 6% and constantly renew our trailer fleet with newer more efficient trailers. The average age of the trailers in the CPX fleet is 1.6 years. All new reefer trailers are ordered with the most efficient Thermo King reefer units available at time of order and the tires are equipped with the Hendrickson Tire Max automatic tire inflation systems offering potential additional fuel savings of 3% - 4%.
Anti-Idling - CPX has implemented an anti-idling policy to reduce the environmental impact of idling. Initially this was achieved by the use of team drivers and today entire fleet is equipped with battery powered climate control systems, which eliminate all fuel used in the cooling of the cab.
Operating Procedures - Our sales and marketing team works closely with the operations team to minimize the number of miles the fleet runs empty.
Training - Various aspects of our extensive driver-training programs and metrics – including idle time reduction, speed control, and optimal gearing-have environmental benefits in the form of reduced emissions. We have used Speed Gauge to monitor driving speed against posted speed limits and have reduced the percentage of speeding from a fleet average of 13% to 1.5%.
Recycling - We have partnered with Urban Impact, a local recycling company, to divert as much waste as possible form landfills.
Energy conservation - We have replaced our existing fluorescent office and warehouse lighting with high efficiency T-5 bulbs (in keeping with a BC Hydro initiative) that will increase bulb life dramatically and in the configuration we will be using, will reduce power consumption by 47%. We have also commissioned an impact study on similar lighting for our Calgary warehouse.
