Taxi Driver Online

Hi Trigot,

Just looked at the website you posted and can say that I think they are being a bit economic with the turth on who they supply, as the VDO system supplied to Birmingham TOA was acutaly supplied by Raywood Europe Ltd as part of their data dispatch system (http://www.raywoodcomms.com.au/press/toa.htm) so it seems that the shop you mentioned are sort of riding on the back of this......maybe you should ask them to clarify this?

Anyway, back to the subject of VDO. Cabcom in Edinburgh supply and fit VDO systems to private hire and hackney, They are a good bunch and know what they are doing.

In Glasgow you have Hannah in Great Western Road, who have been around for years and also have a good reputation but they are not cheap as you have found out.

I wonder which area you come from? Maybe able to point you in the right direction.

regards
RadioMan

hi mate i come from greater glasgow, i know all the firms you mentioned up here hannahs, drivers etc, not too sure of edinburgh though. There are no doubt great sat suppliers and installers here , but after a few dealings with some of them on pther products, i felt it better to go elswhere, just my opinion. The guys down south are quite good though, even better with prices beleive it or not, so why not go for a drive to see friends i have there and have the unit supplied and fitted too,,,
As for the earlier message,,lolol,,,you get them in every walk of life,,especially in this trade,,,,lol
keep the chin up,,,,,

radioman does cab com in edinburgh have a website ,,if they do could you send me the link please,worth a look,,thanks.

Not sure if they do Trigot but if you check with 118500 then they should be able to help you out.

regards
RadioMan

yes com cab do have a site
though I dont share your view that its worth a look.

I think it worth a look to look at the products, not the site itself.

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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IDFIMH

Diplomat advertise the Dell axiom? do they not. Is that not a PDA then?

what they advertise and what they have are 2 different things.
Refer to Lynda, who demonstrates this quite clearly.

You and Lynda should get together, make sweet love and then talk bollocks for hours over a packet of fags.

Oh what fun.

Someone ask what we would like added to make data better, and the spoon goes back on his high horse.

We have just had our auriga updated to this sat tracking thingy.

It goes online next week not sure what people already on it make of it around the country but i can already see one main problem with it. Maybe someone can tell me if I have got it wrong and I am worrying for nothing.

What i feel we will have a problem with is as follows at the minute we have one zone for our town centre and when you are empty you log onto that zone and queue untill you get a job. At some points in a day we have up to 20 cars waiting. With the new system our town centre will be covered by 7 zones so the computer can give the work out better at busy times. The problem I see is that in the daytime most of our customers come from the supermarket in the town which is morrisons. This will have it s own zone so when a job comes up it will give it to a car empty on that zone. So I think were going to have a problem were all the cars are queued up in the morrisons trying to get the next job. Which would not be so bad but as the supermarket has a private owned car park we can not park in their. So if you are sat on another zone and some sneaky driver keeps picking up and then getting himself on the morrisons sub he will keep getting the work while the rest of the cars could be waiting along time for jobs.

Hi
Well there are a few things that can help you out. If there are no cars in the zone then the system will pull a car from an adjacent zone (this can be upto 5 zones away dependant on system settings) so the job should get covered.

The other thing too watch is the screen which shows you the work in the zones, some people call it the bidding screen, at least this screen will show any work in the zone which you can then bid for.

As for splitting the town up into 7 small zones, well, I wonder how big these zones are?

There will be a lot of fine tunning needing to be carried out to your system in order to get the right reporting timings from the cars and any adjustments to areas etc.

I hope it works out for you.

RadioMan

Why split up town into several zones?

I know Auriga advised it (a couple of years ago) to prevent "cars crossing", but I would have thought that their "intelligent despatch" would prevent this now (because cars crossing is due to work being auto-despatched serially). Or is an upgrade to Evocab very costly?

Or is your re-zoning done to take one-way systems into account?

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Next time you wave, use all your fingers.

I was wonerding about that myself. I dont like the idea of having small zones for dispatch work when your looking for cars to plot into the area using GPS.

As for cars crossing, I think that this would be very hard in a lot of systems unless you go for an option that dispatches the job out to the closest car.

Also why do we need zones anymore? With GPS dispatching zones can be done away with..............

regards
RadioMan

Because drivers like ranking.

For instance at a supermarket you could have a taxi rank that faces away from it, and "raw nearest car GPS" would pick the one at the back of the queue!