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16/01/2009

May Gurney Saves 10% In Three Months With Fleetstar

May Gurney, the integrated support and construction services company, has installed the Fleestar-Online solution - from leading Telematics Service Provider Cybit - into the maintenance fleet of its Highway Services sector.

The implementation has shown a saving of almost 10% in fuel costs alone within just three months.

Providing maintenance and enhancement services to the highways, rail, utilities, municipal waste and general infrastructure markets, May Gurney works primarily with the public sector and regulated sector customers across the UK. The installation comes as part of a broader corporate programme of efficiency to assist the delivery of May Gurney's Sustainable Management Programme.

"Having the Cybit solution has been a business revelation, both for tactical operation and corporate business efficiency management - even in such a short space of time," commented Martin Potter, operations director for May Gurney Highway Services. "We are using the data produced to benefit our business from a cost, mobile worker safety and service perspective."

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The Highways sector performs largely reactive maintenance tasks such as repairing potholes, collapsed drains and damage caused by fallen trees. Because of the need to respond quickly, real-time visibility is highly important to May Gurney.

"We need to see where our engineers are when an urgent call comes in," continued Martin Potter, "otherwise we don't know who's in a position to deal with the incident most effectively. We now have all the live information available to effectively manage the process of identifying the most suitable resource - on a location and skill basis."

Identifying vehicle utilisation has enabled further savings to be made: May Gurney is also reporting a fleet reduction of 5%.

May Gurney believes that telematics is also having a positive impact on the safety of its mobile workers.

"We see highly informative reports that enable us to work with our drivers and make them more aware of where they can contribute - both in terms of the routes they take and their driving practices - most noticeably with speed and route planning where we can take preventative action alongside our drivers," concluded Martin Potter.

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