Case Study:
Based in a suburb of Kansas City, Next To Nature Landscape provides residential and commercial landscape services from hard scape work to commercial application, to mowing, and irrigation. Next To Nature operates a whole fleet of trucks, onsite loader vehicles, Ditch Witch trenchers, and other off-road equipment.
CUSTOMER:
INDUSTRY:
LOCATION:
NEXT TO NATURE LANDSCAPE
LANDSCAPING SERVICES
KS, USA
Onsite Fleet
Fueling
Customer Overview
The Next To Nature business was growing and their onsite tanks were no longer meeting the increased fuel requirements necessary during the peak summer season. Next to Nature needed to ensure they have reliable fuel supply that adjusts to seasonal fluctuations.
Challenge
World Kinect recommended that in addition to our bulk fuel delivery and fleet cards, Next To Nature should utilize the Onsite Fleet Fueling option which could also be provided by World Kinect.
World Kinect Solution
World Kinect and Next To Nature created a plan where World Kinect supplies additional fuel in the peak demand months by delivering fuel directly into the customer’s onsite vehicles. With one phone call, the customer can adjust the frequency and volumes of deliveries as needed.
Our delivery technician arrives after hours, using the gate code, and fuels when the Next To Nature’s vehicles are parked overnight.
To ensure the right fuel type goes into the right vehicle, Next To Nature parks their trucks in the same spots every night, making it easier for our delivery drivers to remember locations of the different equipment.
For the secondary sites and for outside of the normal working areas, Next To Nature continues to utilize World Kinect fleet fuel cards.
Next To Nature Landscape improved its operational efficiencies with having World Kinect as the single source of all fuel supply solutions: Bulk Deliveries, Fleet Cards, and Onsite Fleet Fueling, allowing the customer to maintain centralized records for all fuel usage and costs per job and per truck.
Business Impact
LESS WORRY ABOUT ACCIDENTS & STOLEN EQUIPMENT
ONE-STOP-SHOP FUEL SUPPLY PARTNER
As it evolved and our tanks weren't big enough to hold the amount of fuel we were needing, we took advantage of the Onsite Fleet Fueling, which again, gives us an advantage in the field since we're not stopping and fueling vehicles and worrying about stolen equipment or accidents onsite. The guys are fueled, ready to go on a daily basis. And that's really put an advantage to efficiencies for Next to Nature.
DAVID WARD, OWNER,
NEXT TO NATURE LANDSCAPE, USA
Source energy
and fuel
SIMPLIFIED PROCUREMENT
& REPORTING
World Kinect delivers different types of fuel - off-road, regular gasoline, and on-road diesel – in the same Onsite Fueling shift. Every truck is scanned, and then the customer receives a report on what fuel was loaded in which truck.
Our delivery technician arrives after hours, using the gate code, and fuels when the Next To Nature’s vehicles are parked overnight.