DRIVE LESS, SAVE MORE

“Drive less, save more” can be related to a road accident that always be 

the hot topic in Malaysia’s newspaper. Every year number of road accident 

and number of people who get involved in road accident is increasing. 

Traffic congestion also increase by years as transportation becomes a 

basic necessity in Malaysia. However, “drive less save more” not just can 

be relate to road accident and traffic congestion but it also can be

 related to haulage road transportation in logistics activity.

Haulage or sometimes can be called a haulier is the business activity in logistics that provide service in delivering goods by road using prime movers. 

Haulage business is one of the famous road transportation services in logistics 

activity in Malaysia and one of the largest business road transportation service 

that can gain a large profit when this business are create at the strategic place which is near port such as Port Klang, Johor Port, Penang Port and other port.

Usually, Haulage Company will find a customer who wants to use their road transportation service to deliver customer’s goods in short distance between port and destination customer want whether the haulage company use the prime movers pick up the empty container from port deliver to customer’s distribution center and waiting for loading the goods into the container or pick up the laden container from port deliver to customer’s distribution center and waiting for unloading the goods. 

Short distance journey strategy is mostly used by Haulage Company in 

Malaysia in delivering customer’s goods but only a big haulage company usually 

use long distance journey strategy because they have a lot of prime 

movers to carry customer’s goods. Short distance journey strategy related 

to drive less save more is because it can maintain the prime movers 

from damage and lower maintenance. If long distance journey ,

prime movers might damage and have to spend a lot of money for maintenance. 

The companies also can maintain the fuel budget for prime movers so they 

will save their money because fuel price increase every year if the journey 

in short distance and reduce air pollution. The companies can 

make well on time service for customer they no need to 

pay extra charges because of late delivery. 

There many companies use short distance journey in Malaysia such as Freight Management Holding Bhd that runs container haulage service in Jan 2008, with 30 prime movers and 150 trailers. This will enable 

the company to offer door to port & port to door solutions for its Full Container Load customers.