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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:42 pm 
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OK, fair enough but, exactly how long should a customer who requested an 8 seater be expected to wait for their vehicle?

Most sensible customers would book an 8 seater, so really the office could give the job to a driver many hours in advance.

The less sensible ones that don't book should be prepared to wait at least 30 minutes. Either that or pay for two 4 seaters. :wink:

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OK, fair enough but, exactly how long should a customer who requested an 8 seater be expected to wait for their vehicle?

The point is, that there are potentially more 'small' vehicles than 5,6,7,8 seaters out working, and at the end of the day, who know how long the 'smaller vehicle' job is going to take?

We all now know that the evocab system despatches jobs on a points basis. At it's most basic, all vehicles score the same number of points for each job. Additional points can be added to a 'rarer' vehicle BUT ONLY when the rarer vehicle is being offered (for example) a saloon job AND an 8 seater job. As most fleets tend to have more saloons than 8 seaters, there is more likelyhood that a saloon car is going to come free sooner than another 8 seater. If this is not the case, then the 8 seater would not be considered as 'rare' and as such would not score additional points getting it to do the 8 seater job first. In this instance (where there are no extra points), the job waiting the longest would be despatched first.

The above also outlines how a black cab only fleet may be confiured - as every job is an 'any car' (i.e. black cab) job, there is no rarer vehicle *unless* the customer needs something special, i.e. non liverd, white cab, etc etc etc..

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You like Auriga seem to be missing the point. In an earlier post you state something about not being given a job despite being nearer. Well the system has no capacity to allocate on a closest car basis.

From my experience the 'minority' vehicles such as WAV, 8 seaters etc receive their bookings far earlier than standard jobs'typically'. With this fact it should be possible to 'plan' further thn 15 seconds for these type of vehicles.

As I have previously said,Evocab won't stop giving your only WAV a regular car booking NOW which takes it out of range of a WAV booking in 20 seconds time.

Or can you pre-allocate the job to the WAV and ensure it doesn't send it on a job which will stop it reaching its pre-allocated job in time?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:15 pm 
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The above also outlines how a black cab only fleet may be confiured - as every job is an 'any car' (i.e. black cab) job, there is no rarer vehicle *unless* the customer needs something special, i.e. non liverd, white cab, etc etc etc..

but surely then the hole point of evocab is redundant.
i know it does other things. but this wait and see despatch wont ever be used.
or am i missing something? :?


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can anyone give me info on how evo is better than the sirius platform on auriga or would it be better for me to switch to evo as we have 240 cars on our system im looking for independent advice we have spoken to auriga but they will try to sell their system is their anybody here who has switched to evo here that could tell me the benefits over sirius or if it is worth going on to evo? is the evo as stable as sirius ? how easy is it to configure? does the optimiser work as they say it does? does it despatch work any quicker & does it make the despatcher almost redundant like they say? any comments will be welcome thanxxxx


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I suppose Evo is better than Sirius in the same way as Windows 95 isn't as good as the latest Windows offering.

That said I haven't used Evo yet, but I'm not convince the new version is as useful for those of us behind the wheel, as Auriga would have us believe. [-(

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labraiz wrote:
can anyone give me info on how evo is better than the sirius platform on auriga or would it be better for me to switch to evo as we have 240 cars on our system im looking for independent advice we have spoken to auriga but they will try to sell their system is their anybody here who has switched to evo here that could tell me the benefits over sirius or if it is worth going on to evo? is the evo as stable as sirius ? how easy is it to configure? does the optimiser work as they say it does? does it despatch work any quicker & does it make the despatcher almost redundant like they say? any comments will be welcome thanxxxx


I know that the transistion is never as smooth as you hope for.

Ring round other users you know and ask them. All Auriga customers are happy to chat to each other.

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Try ringing Gary at A & B Taxis at Basildon Essex. They have the whole kit and are honest about it, too.

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Is anybody on this forum running with evocab? who have a similar fleet to the one ive got & tell me how its running for them what they dislike about it or the benefits of it over sirius? Im not looking to change my data system from Auriga cuz its working fine for us its not perfect but i dont think their is a data system that is just curious to find out about companies who have got evo and why it would be worth spending quite a few grand on it or has anybody had evo and want to go back to sirius or another company all i want is a bit of independent advice cuz when i speak to Auriga abt it they like most companies say its best thing since sliced bread but they wud say that


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labraiz wrote:
Is anybody on this forum running with evocab? who have a similar fleet to the one ive got & tell me how its running for them what they dislike about it or the benefits of it over sirius? Im not looking to change my data system from Auriga cuz its working fine for us its not perfect but i dont think their is a data system that is just curious to find out about companies who have got evo and why it would be worth spending quite a few grand on it or has anybody had evo and want to go back to sirius or another company all i want is a bit of independent advice cuz when i speak to Auriga abt it they like most companies say its best thing since sliced bread but they wud say that


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I know of a few companies who have changed over. There have been issues and you will see them in this thread. My advice at the moment is that if you dont need to change then wait a while see how the other settle down.

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labraiz wrote:
Is anybody on this forum running with evocab? who have a similar fleet to the one ive got & tell me how its running for them what they dislike about it or the benefits of it over sirius? Im not looking to change my data system from Auriga cuz its working fine for us its not perfect but i dont think their is a data system that is just curious to find out about companies who have got evo and why it would be worth spending quite a few grand on it or has anybody had evo and want to go back to sirius or another company all i want is a bit of independent advice cuz when i speak to Auriga abt it they like most companies say its best thing since sliced bread but they wud say that


Hi
I know of a few companies who have changed over. There have been issues and you will see them in this thread. My advice at the moment is that if you dont need to change then wait a while see how the other settle down.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:30 pm 
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Is anybody on this forum running with evocab? who have a similar fleet to the one ive got & tell me how its running for them what they dislike about it or the benefits of it over sirius?

hello fella we now have evocab and 140 cars.
you can tell by this thread that i,m not that great a fan.
not saying its crap. just not as good as they say.
i much like the PDA/IPACs and dont like the old dataheadsd. even the newer coloured ones look dated asnd noone has got them yet.

i think auriga have just given a free reign to there boffins. and i dont think one of them has ever driven a ph or cab.
and if they have then they should np better.


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Hi
Acutally a company in the NE of England has the units in BUT, they dont do all the things thats listed on Aurigas website yet.

Also I believe that Les at Club taxis has some of the units installed as well.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:14 pm 
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Acutally a company in the NE of England has the units in BUT, they dont do all the things thats listed on Aurigas website yet.

Also I believe that Les at Club taxis has some of the units installed as well.

one must assume they are the official guinea pigs. :roll:
i think anyone with a braincell will wait till they bring out an ipac version like cordic.
well thats what the auriga fitter said. :shock:


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will auriga bring out a ipac after investing so much money in their ct 4000s
i cant see it happening in the near future 8) 8) 8) 8)


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will auriga bring out a ipac after investing so much money in their ct 4000s
i cant see it happening in the near future 8) 8) 8) 8)

the fiiter/engineer said that they will be out in 2007.
i think they are realising that if they dont they will lose out on future sales. :shock:


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