Analogue + Digital Tachograph = Mixed Fleet Analysis

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Are you one of the many hauliers already faced with the challenge of merging analogue chart data with driver's cards information?

Do you want to be able to use the merged data in an effective, useful way?

Digital as we know is here. Digital tachographs, now referred to as 'Digitachs' will be law from May 2006 for all commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight.

That said, some of you will have already taken delivery of new vehicles with digitachs and some of you are waiting on delivery – either way, managing a mixed fleet environment is now a reality.

If this is your situation, then no doubt you should be considering your options now.

There are many suppliers in the market claiming that they have the 'right' digital solution. So, how do you evaluate what your ‘right’ solution should be?

Consider the following:

• Instant digital analysis
• Less than 48hrs for analogue (chart) analysis
• Less than 48hrs for merged digital and analogue analysis
• Managing your business through exception reporting
• One common reporting environment
• Proven technology
• Support and after sales service

TruTac has been talking for a while now about its vision of an integrated transport resource management (TRM) environment. Where a comprehensive suite of applications use, share and exploit common data to effect dramatic improvements in efficiency, cost-effectiveness and performance of the business - with enhanced management reporting on an as required and exception basis.

Now with Digital - this vision has become today's reality.

Suppliers, like TruTac, that can illustrate an integrated architecture programme for transport resource management should be able to meet all of the above listed criteria. Like TruTac, their development efforts would be totally focussed to provide solutions that enable added-value decision making, by integrating key information from the multitude of applications running in a transport operation.

The real solution for a mixed fleet environment is a solution that provides you with a seamless, accurate combination of analogue and digital data - in an effective 'real-time' turnaround time.

• A solution that enables architectural integration of driver and vehicle movement information into middleware applications. Now data is digital - its analysis is instant and controllable. The master file of driver and vehicle information that it creates can be pushed and pulled into other applications - such as: telematics, distribution planning, supply chain management, asset management, time & attendance and fuel management.
• A solution that utilises exception reporting methods and tells you when you need to act! Thereby doing away with hundred's of paper reports and eliminating the need to run regular reports. The power of exception reporting is also utilised for establishing and monitoring against key performance indicators set for your business. With exception reporting, you benefit from more effective time management, improved incentive management of drivers and cost reductions.
• A solution that allows you to spend time on managing your business and focus on what the Ministry believes you should be doing - not just staying compliant by analysing driver charts/cards; but, also debriefing drivers for effective behaviour improvement.

Ultimately, this all means - A solution that is easy to implement to move to the mixed fleet environment.

TruTac has a solution that works. Any decisions you make for digital also apply to analogue - it's the merged data that is meaningful - most suppliers and postal systems cannot offer what you need. TruTac can provide a new integrated approach for digital and analogue.

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