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• Darrell Transport, based in Fife, won the V-SOL 2000 tracking system from Vehicle Solutions for five vehicles (normal cost £1,800 per vehicle, plus software, base station and line rental) and rents the office computer from Vehicle Solutions to manage the system for £55 a month. Additionally, it pays for communications costs, which work out at 1.2p per call.
Darrell's 15-strong fleet comprises three
17-tonne rigids with Hunt: Office software, which lorry-loading cranes, uses Microsoft AutoRoute two 7.5-tonners, four Express, was easy to pickup. panel vans, two car derived vans and four standard cars, all of which are used for courier work and some general haulage,
The five tracking units are fitted to the two Z5-tonners, two vans arid Hunt's own car. Darrell's 10 other vehicles are not currently tracked.
Hunt won the equipment, which was installed in March 2000, by correctly identifying the destination of a vehicle shown an a typical screen from the tracking software as Southampton, and by coming up with a catchy decider to explain why tracking systems were worth having: 'low proof is accessible, WB can be more trusting of the good guys," he wrote.