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We went live with the EVO system this week. Got to say we are having a few problems. Like when the computer sends you a job for the town centre when you are ten mile away and there are plenty of cars sat empty in town. But the quality of work for me seems to have gone up which makes me think their must have been some serious feeding going on before.

Ah but wait for it Barnsley me old mucker, wait till the operators start feeding on Data, the jobs you knew that were there on voice are no longer there on Data. It's dead easy to feed on DATA without anyone knowing, freeze the job, put the drivers number at the side of the job then send it befre the computer does, also there is the changing plots thing to benefit drivers, all this can happen mate, keep ya eyes peeld.

Old Paranoia Nidge still about then.

From my experience the drivers who spend all their time worrying about what everyone else is doing make far less than those who just getting on with their own business.

We feed all the time, we give the best jobs to the best drivers. That way we keep the ones we want, customers and drivers that is.

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priceless

Well it happens all over the country on DATA and there is no getting away from it, like you people come on here and say we don't feed, load of BO****KS. Them people who come on and say that are normally the worse culprits.

Of course it does Nidge.

Because you talk to equally paranoid drivers from all round the country.

Those doing the money are too busy to worry about the rest of the country.

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Did you have data before EVO or id this you first one?

alway better to be a couple of zones ahead of where you are cos there nothing worse than the system being slow and sending you back to where you were 5 minutes ago. cos as we all know you can cover a lot of ground at 3 in the morning in not a lot of time.

EVO supposedly won't let you long bonnet though Steveo

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Yeh we had the Data one before this. They have updated it to this EVo thing were it uses GPS to track you and plot your location.

The main reason for this sort of problem is the reporting times that are setup in the majority of data systems. There is only so many data transmissions that a data channel can take before it starts too slow down.

On some systems cars report back their position dependant on the following:

1. Free
2. POB
3. Allocated

On any system you would want the "FREE" cars to send in their postion more often than the cars that are allocated or POB. Then you have to decided on how often you want "FREE" cars to send back their position and a car miles out from your working area might not send in his/her position as often as cars that are in the main working area.

Other problems that happen on data systems is bad zone layout and its even worse when people try to make three zones join at one point especially things like major junctions and round abouts.

I have seen various data systems where one of the main problems has been the area layouts.

Anyway, does Evocab do closest car location and dispatch of work?

You tease Radioman.

You and I know the answer to that. The 'world's most sophisticated despatch system' doesn't have the capacity to give the closest car the job.

Shame that.

Does Raywood?

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Dear Mr Thumb,
I would tease anyone, just asking a question.....I have heard rumours regarding this issue but was just wondering if a user of the system can answer the question.

Anyway, will I have the pleasure of meeting you next week then?

I think the only time you should use the closest car way, is when it's busy and you have a number of outstanding jobs in the same zone.

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Disagree Sussex.

If you cover a large rural area your zones could be up to 50 square miles for outlying areas.

Then closest car becomes essential even across different zones.

For example you have three cars on the way to Heathrow, you want the closest to being free to get the waiting job surely.

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This goes back the debate on being able to change the method that systems dispatch work dependant on time of day and the day of the week.