Just the tonic for the fleet
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A GIN DISTILLER is using Freight Computer Services' Microdrive fleet management system in conjuction with a fuel management system.
James Burrough, distiller of Beefeater Gin, is buying £14,500 worth of tailor-made systems from FCS, the computer specialist subsidiary of the National Freight Consortium, and is linking it to the Permex fuel management system.
Each driver has a key for fuel, and consumption is monitored and fed into the computer along with tachograph analysis. Printouts, analysing individual vehicle operating costs, will be given with additional information on the number of drops per journey, weight carried, and number of items delivered.
According to FCS, this will produce details of costs per ton and will serve as a monitor on sub contractors' efficiency.
OPERATORS party to the agreement with the Devon Stone Federation have won rate increases of between two and four per cent to cover increased fuel charges.
The agreement provides for the negotiation of higher rates when fuel costs exceed five per cent, and recent dery price rises have prompted the new deal for two per cent higher rates for low mileage work, and four per cent for high mileage work.