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COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S Fleet Management Conference will feature a live demonstration of MercedesBenz's computerised commercial vehicle cost calculation system.
The demonstration, on October 24 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, is in support of a paper to be presented by the company's fleet sales manager John Speeks.
The system to be demonstrated is a computer model designed to assist in the selection of the most suitable vehicle or vehicle combinat'on for a particular purpose, together with analysis of the total vehicle costs involved.
It uses information provided by the operator on a simple questionnaire. Thus costs which are unique to his operation — drivers' wages, vehicle purchase price, etc — can be coupled to the "data bank" built up by the Mercedes-Benz Transport Consultancy Service to give a picture of the total cost for a vehicle for each year of its life.
The "data bank" has been built up from information provided by British operators using the consultancy's fleet information system to record and analyse the performance of vehicle in their fleets on a regular basis.
The cost calculation output is presented in the form of a computer print-out showing the cost per mile, cost per ton carried, cost per cubic metre carried, etc. As the results are shown up on a visual display unit connected direct to the computer, various configurations can be fed in via a keyboard and tried out on the computer until the optimum solution is found.
In the foyer of the Fleet Management Conference, delegates will be able to try for themselves various combinations of data, either factual or fictional, and see the results almost instantly displayed on the screen.