After South Yorkshire, Edinburgh and Cantabria, also Rotterdam starts with ECOSTARS
February 1, 2012 by Frederike Demmers
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ECOSTARS Fleet Recognition Scheme (Efficient and Cleaner Operations) is a free, voluntary scheme designed to provide recognition, guidance and advice to operators of goods vehicles, buses and coaches. After South Yorkshire, Edinburgh and Cantabria, also Rotterdam starts with ECOSTARS.
ECOSTARS rates individual vehicles and your fleet’s overall road transport operation using star rating criteria, to recognise levels of operational and environmental performance. The ECOSTARS scheme is straightforward to join and there is no formal audit process. Each member signing up to the scheme will receive tailor made support to ensure that their fleet is running as efficiently and economically as possible, to help them progress to higher ratings.
The scheme is open to operators of all types of commercial vehicles (light goods vehicles, heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches), across all sectors of activity (own account, hire and reward, private and public sectors, retail, haulage, industrial, parcels, community transport, local registered bus services, longer distance coach services etc) and all sizes.
Development of ECOSTARS schemes will be guided by a European Wide Reference Group, with common scheme standards to be established. The project will also produce a guide for Local Authorities into setting up ECOSTARS schemes so that the lessons from the project can be used in the future.