Electrifying your fleet isn’t just about going green – it’s about staying in business

In the world of business, there are two kinds of sustainability – sustainability in the sense that we need a planet to live and breathe on, and sustainability in the sense that the business needs to stay in business. For years, EV proponents have been talking about sustainability of the first kind, but Trump’s war with Iran is proving that going electric can help with sustainability of the second kind, too.

“Electrifying yard operations is often framed as a sustainability initiative. [But] that framing is incomplete,” reads YMX’ official copy. “It is also a risk management strategy.”

That’s a line from a blog post titled, “The Oil Shock: Is It Time to Move to 100% Electric Yard Trucks?” on the company’s website, highlighting the fact that YMX, a national provider of end-to-end outsourced yard logistics, YMX has a proven track record of working with large shippers, leading Silicon Valley companies, and top-tier consulting firms to reduce costs and improve efficiencies at scale.

In other words, when a company like YMX starts talking about things like downtime, total costs of ownership, and fleet management, everyone should listen.