Between mid April and May this year the average price of diesel leapt up by 6.76p per litre - the highest month-on-month increase this decade. With this trend set to continue, it's essential to ensure that your fleet is running at maximum efficiency. Keeping track of both your vehicles' movements and repairs can be a logistical nightmare - which is why this week's Product Focus is dedicated to a range of software solutions that could help you save both time and money.

DON’T PAY THE PENALTY

Delivery and service vans are major targets for Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs).

Frequently, these vehicles are legitimately delivering goods or providing services when they receive a PCN, but it is difficult to do, without being at risk of getting a ticket.

To help deal with this rising level of administration, Chevin can offer PCNPAL.

PCNPAL enables fleets to:
• Reduce escalation charges
• Improve visibility of PCN process
• Hold accurate PCN codes and challenge validation criteria
• Maintain Issuing Authority details
• Manage PCN Timeline; e.g. appeal process tracking, hearing
• dates and appeal results
• Maintain driver payments, date received / value paid details
• Measure full PCN costs and savings
• Access easy-to-read daily, weekly and accrual reports

 HaulTech's Integrated Traffic Management is Going Green...

HaulTech have developed a new feature for their Traffic Management System that enables users to monitor and ultimately reduce their Carbon emissions. The Carbon calculator takes into consideration a delivery vehicle’s route mileage and load allocation then generates a calculation providing users with information including the amount of CO2 the vehicle will generate during the delivery process.

Integrated into HaulTech’s existing Traffic Management System the calculator is available for both users and their customers to view the potential environmental impact of their deliveries. At the booking level user’s customers will be able to view the CO2 emissions of their consignment online and at the planning level users will be able to view the CO2 emissions, performance and financial data of the entire load.

Contact us for an online demo.

Optimise Your Fleet Management
with In-Sync's RFM system

The In-Sync RFM system (Rental Fleet Management) has been developed with the help of fully qualified workshop and technical staff.

With a couple of clicks you can see a comprehensive selection of vehicle service & maintenance dates, colour coding enabling quick identification of problems such as due or overdue maintenance.

You can build up valuable information against vehicles, customers and suppliers. Easily raise estimates / job cards and allocate them to your technicians. Create purchase orders for ordering parts from suppliers, control the stock on your shelves with its stock control system. 

Manage customer defects, and generate quick and accurate invoices to your customers with its built in invoicing system and much more.....

Fleet Management, Garage Management & GPRS
With portable inspection sheets
& repair job cards

Trace fleet management and garage management systems include workshop and stores, job costing and invoicing with parts sales.

Optional: Portable, paperless, electronic job sheets and inspections with handheld GPRS unit. Rugged, portable GPRS unit for electronic job cards and inspection sheets in the field. Outside/inside workshops. Operates with workshop's Trace System. Not third-party controlled.
-   Portable, Handheld, Remote: Inspection Sheets, Repair Job Cards & Parts
-   Own Design. Any: Vehicle, Job Card or Inspection Sheet
-   Upload & Download from the Trace System by GPRS

New Option: Electronic Driver Daily Checks and Defect Reports by GPRS. Independent of any fleet management system. Immediate proof & reports.

• May 30 - Workshop - Fixed Lifts
• June 6 - Air Conditioning & Servicing Equipment
• June 13 - Workshop Tools & Equipment

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