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MORE computerised help is on its way for transport managers. Last week, CCN Systems (0602 410888), a credit reference and business information company in the Great Universal Stores group, launched its
Guidelines fleet management system. is aimed at the companycar fleets, bu also covers vans up to 3.5 tonnes GVW.
Its central feature is a database (called the Maswrfile) which contains armation on every car and van sold he UK. This includes details such he basic specification, price, service !rval, fuel economy figures, mples of spares prices and resale ues.
k second database contains the rator's own fleet management icy, such as replacement cycle and vice intervals, while a third holds rent information on the individual iicles in the fleet, including, repair lenditure and running costs. 2CN says that by pooling these armation sources Guidelines can not y monitor operating costs in the
but also help planning and :..casting. For example, it could itrast total-life costs of one model h another or compare outright 'chase with leasing.
Ul the cars are already in the sterfile database; the vans are rend), being "loaded" into the tern and will be available within the :t two months.
;uidelines runs on an Apricot Xi sonal computer, but is not being as a software package. Instead, :N will rent out the computer and Guidelines software at i:600 a nth. This includes the maintenance the constant updating of the armation in the Masterfile.
trillium for sale and service of Edbro ping hoists and hydraulic equipment. Leyland: Chatficlds-Martin Walter taken over Kennings' Leyland acks/Freight Rover/Multipart tributorship in Ashton Old Road, iwick, East Manchester. It has been .ained Chatfields of Manchester. k new Leyland parts and service Inv has been opened at 63 Garman ad, Tottenham, North London. ..ex Tillotson Southampton is icking foreign competition with a 6x2 eland Roadtrain 38-tonne tractive unit nonstrator called Lion/meat-i. MAN-VW: Two MAN truck dealers
expanded their ranges to sell kN-VW MT-Series 6.5 to I() tonne cks. They are E.M. Knifton Truck vices, of Rawson Green, Derby, and