"Drive Less, Save More"

In the modern world, we can see every single activity of movement will involve transportation such as vehicle and truck. But we do you realize that the cost of transportation is the most critical factors that must be face by everyone, either people in logistic activity or citizen. “Drive Less, Save More” also is the technique to minimize the cost of transportation and also it help to reduce global warming. This is because transportation can cause pollution that can lead unpredictable event occurs such as flood and earthquakes. So that, we must understand how to implement “Drive Less, Save More” in our daily life.

Actually, “Drive Less Save More” give people inspiration how to maximize using their private transportation, how to fully utilize using transportation system from economic and environmental perspective. There are several solution that will explain this such as using public transportation,carpooling and bicycles.

Public transportation is economical. Why? This is because taking public transportation is cheaper than using own transportation, and if they have their own car, many cost they have to cover such as money for service, repairs and insurance. So that, taking public transportation are more efficient if you are student and also it can provide discount. For logistic field, it is better to minimize using own transportation and try to fully utilize the company that provide the fright-forwarder service to carry their goods.

By using public transportation, they can reduce traffic congestion when the people willing to use public transportation rather than own transport. Its can reduce the rate of pollution happen come from vehicle because there are less car driving on the roads and its able to keep environment green.

Next solution of “Drive Less Save More” is carpooling. Its also known as ride-sharing, car-sharing and lift sharing. Its can give environmental impact which current research prove that the average of car releases ten thousand pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. An overabundance of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead global warming happen. By implement carpooling, its can reduce this effect toward our earth by reducing the number of car on the road. Carpooling also can saves our money too because they sharing the cost of driving in one car. Driving one car saves on gasoline, tolls, parking and vehicle maintenance. In logistics field, we can use the consolidation method in order to minimize the using of transportation by collecting the small shipment and convert to the larger shipment. This also can fully utilize the space in delivery of their shipment.

As human, we must realize that our earth was suffer because of our act, so we can use “Drive Less, Save More” as a solution to save our environment and also save our money to not be waste anymore in future.