News: Large fleet cost optimization

If you have one minibus, the cost of lubricants in the total cost of its maintenance is very small. However, if the fleet has about 200 vehicles, requiring routine maintenance, then this expenditure item becomes much more significant.

The vehicle fleet of our customer, Ryder Ukraine, consists mainly of Nissan NV1500 and NV2500 vans. These are powerful US-made commercial vans with 4-liter atmospheric gasoline engines, the recommended service interval for which is 8 thousand km. Moreover, these vehicles are additionally equipped with compressed natural gas equipment to save money for their customers.

Therefore, to optimize costs, it was proposed to run performance tests of the recommended oil SUNOCO ULTRA FULL SYNTHETIC SP/GF-6A SAE 5W-30 on four cars NISSAN NV1500 according to the approved program SUNOCO LUBTEST: oil samples were taken directly from the car engines, and control oil parameters were carried out in an independent and certified laboratory in Germany. Expert evaluation of the dynamics of changes in physical and chemical parameters, the concentration of impurities and wear particles allowed to make reasonable decisions about the possibility of further operation of the oil.

The final test results showed that SUNOCOCO ULTRA FULL SYNTHETIC SP/GF-6A SAE 5W-30 oil perfectly performs its functions, and the reserve of its performance characteristics allows to increase the inter-service interval of its replacement by 50%. This, in turn, will provide reduced time and significant savings on the maintenance of Ryder Ukraine’s fleet of vehicles.