roadmap monthly newsletter - july 2012

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Roadmap monthly newsletter

Editorial

et the games begin!

Every 4 years the world sends its best athletes to compete and try to get the ultimate trophy: a medal. That’s currently

more than 10,000 athletes from more than 200 nations, competing in over 300 different disciplines.

What strikes me in the Olympics is how the number of medals conquered by a country is somewhat aligned with that nation’s total GDP.

You see, it’s not only the size of the population. India has traditionally never been a huge winner of Olympic medals, although its population is one of the largest in the world. In Beijing 2008, India won 3 medals in total. That was India’s record number of medals in the Olympics. With the country’s GDP quickly growing, some analysts now point to 7-8 medals for India in 2012.

Likewise, Qatar, listed by the World Bank and the IMF as the world’s richest country per capita, has also historically never reached a high number of medals. In fact, they won one bronze medal in 1992 and another one in 2000. The citizen population totals less than 300,000.

When the size of a population is multiplied by a large GDP per capita, that’s when countries are more successful winning Olympic medals. Makes sense, right? If your country has a large population (potential for many athletes) and at the same time resources to invest in them (GDP), then you will probably applaud a lot this summer, as your nation grabs a good share of medals.

I find some similarities between these conclusions and what happens with companies. Sometimes companies have good business plans and the necessary skills but not enough resources to bring them to full potential. Nowadays, with banks reducing credit for companies, it is even more important to cut down on unnecessary costs and to apply resources on the real “athletes”: good projects, good skills.

Frotcom can contribute by helping you reduce your unnecessary fleet costs and save money. Use that money on your company’s athletes and the “medals” will come.

And by the way, good luck to your country, on the London Olympics!

Valério Marques CEO - Frotcom International

A note from the editor – If you would like to have your own say in the next edition of this newsletter please do not hesitate to get in touch at [email protected].

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July

2012

In this issue

New features

New detail added to the

map’s infobox

Travel time added to the

Visit to places report

Case Studies

Evro Sped – Reducing costs and

supervising driving behavior

Štupica Transport – Making

drivers’work easier

This and much more…

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Case study

Štupica Transport – making drivers’ work easier

Štupica Transport is a transportation company founded in 1991 in Ribnica,

Slovenia. Three years ago, in search for a vehicle tracking solution, the company

found Frotcom and due to its generous offer of features they immediately

installed it on their fleet.

The company prides itself with a fleet of 30 modern MAN trucks. Among them,

25 vehicles comply with the EURO 5 emissions standard and are equipped with

EEV (Enhanced Environmentally friendly Vehicles) engines. This, along with the

use of Frotcom, can only lead to classifying Štupica as an ecologically-oriented

company.

Besides performing quantitative and volumetric transport

loads up to 25 tones, the company’s services are

supplemented by offering truck wash, service garage and

tracking shipments enabled by Frotcom.

For a complete profile you can check here the company’s official website.

In 2009, Štupica Transport started using the Frotcom services which have fully

meet their expectations.

Fleet Manager, Robert Štupica, declared “Before we decided to use Frotcom

vehicle tracking, we also tested other providers from Slovenia. We chose

Frotcom because it offered significantly more features than its competition.

Frotcom tracking system is user friendly, with a fast and reliable web application.

For us, the most important function is reading CANbus data - fuel consumption.

With Frotcom we reduced our costs and made drivers and disponents work

easier. We also appreciate the fast support from Frotcom Slovenia. After two

years of working with Frotcom Slovenia and using Frotcom’s vehicle tracking

system we came to the conclusion that more than two years ago we made the

correct decision.”

ROADMAP congratulates the Frotcom Slovenia team for this successful project!

Did you know?

A campaign about how to travel smart in the city

On July 4 2012, the European Commission launched a three-year Sustainable Urban mobility campaign in 31 countries, aiming to promote the advantages of smartly combining different modes of transportation.

The private car is no longer the only choice for trips around the city. Maybe you want to improve your health by cycling to work, or perhaps you’re eager to see the city from a new perspective by taking a tram through the side streets? You could meet new people by choosing to car share or save time by checking your e-mail on the train. Whatever your vision, a revolution is underway in our mobility culture.

Seeking new ideas on how to do the right mix? Find out by clicking here. Looking for financial support to put into practice your sustainable urban mobility ideas? You can apply here.

Everyone, from NGOs to individuals can show intelligent and sustainable use of transport, by registering a relevant action and share with the world his/her own personal success story. And don’t forget, with rising energy prices, embracing sustainable urban mobility will also save you money!

Doing the right mix campaign brings out the revolution already running across the EU to change the mindset in the field of sustainable urban mobility.

Sources: http://www.dotherightmix.eu/

http://www.stupicatransport.si/index.php?lang=en

http://www.dotherightmix.eu/node/12

http://www.dotherightmix.eu/user

http://www.dotherightmix.eu/user

http://www.dotherightmix.eu/



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News features

New detail added to map’s infobox

In order for Frotcom users to easily

contact their drivers, Frotcom added a

small but important detail to the map’s

infobox – the mobile phone number.

This contact information can be quickly

edited in Administration > Drivers >

Details.

A mobile phone number can be now easily associated to each driver, showing

directly on the infobox, on the map.

Average consumption per hour shows in more places

As you know, Frotcom already calculates and displays the

average consumption per hour in several places in Frotcom,

e.g. at the bottom of CANBus graphs. Now, the average

consumption is also available in four other sections:

1. In the Trip details of CANBus equipped vehicles;

2. In the CANBus report;

3. In the CANBus detailed report, with also an extra column "Engine hours";

4. In the Trips spanned report with CANBus.

Travel time added to the Visit to places report

Questioning how much time drivers spend on a trip from one place to another

can be a continuous worry for the fleet managers. To make things easier, the

Visit to places report now has a new column, called Trip duration. This column

displays the time spent by the vehicle to travel to each place.

Tip of the month

Editing the names of the place types

You edit and change the names of

place types. What you need to do is

follow three simple steps:

1. In Administration > Places,

click on the Edit place types

button, at the bottom.

2. This button will pop up a list

with all the place types.

3. To change a place type name,

click on it. A new window pops

up, where you can make the

changes you need. For

instance, in the case below, we

will change Active customer to

Sales point.

4. Now click Save. From now on,

the symbol on the map

will represent Sales points,

instead of Active customers.



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Case Study

Evro Sped – Reducing costs and

supervising driving behavior

Established in 1992, Evro Sped is an international transporting company with

over 19 years of active operations in the field of international land transport. In

October 2010 the company started using Frotcom and since then they have

managed to use their resources much more efficiently.

Evro Sped seeks continuously new contacts for import and export operations in

order to meet the requirements of a growing market. Thanks to their reliable

collaborators and customers the company has succeeded in gaining a good

reputation on both national and international level.

Their fleet of 24 Volvo trucks (conformed to the Euro 5 emissions standard) is

able to work out optimal routes and to deliver client's goods on time and at

reasonable costs. This is a result of the transport organization with two drivers in

every truck, with the strict observation of national and international

requirements, and also of the use of a vehicle tracking system to manage

operations. Evro Sped has been using Frotcom for almost two years and

nowadays they have the system installed on all their vehicles.

Zoran Gjorchev, Manager at Evro Sped commented that “With Frotcom we managed to use our resources much more efficiently. Through the integrated navigation the communication with our drivers became simpler, clearer and more economic. Moreover, Frotcom’s CANBus module also enabled us to have access vehicle data from our trucks which permits us to control driving behavior, save fuel and decrease costs.”

Evro Sped experience allowed the company to build a net of land transport in whole Europe, focusing especially on loading from / to Western Europe. For a complete profile of Evro Sped visit their website here.

ROADMAP congratulates the Frotcom Macedonia team for this successful project!

Next, on Roadmap

News and events,

more new Frotcom features

and tips will be presented.

This and more, so don’t miss

the next issue of Roadmap.

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