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• The week after Automated Fuelling Systems (Northern) installed its Automaster AFI 500 total fuel management system at British Vita headquarters at Middleton, Man liester, the polymer company's fleet engineer, David Round, reported: "I have never seen any fuel monitoring equipment that has been so universally acclaimed by drivers and management alike."
AFS built a custom-designed fuelling island incorporating high-speed diesel and engine oil dispensers for the Vita Group's 119-vehicle fleet. All management data, driver and vehicle input and continuing fleet performance analyses are controlled by the AFI 500 unit linked to British Vita's own computer system. The AFI unit itself conducted a series of on-screen lessons showing fleet drivers how to use their new equipment.
Now, says fleet engineer Round, the drivers appreciate that the Automaster has eliminated all their paperwork drudgery and trimmed their whole re-fuelling and accounting procedure into simply slotting into the new unit their coded cards.
The Automaster can take in as well as transmit a comprehensive picture of fleet opera tions. It presents daily, weekly or monthly analyses of all chosen accounting aspects of commercial fleet operation, including fuel consumption achieved by individual vehicles, individual and total fleet performance costings, plus an early warning on trucks needing mechanical attention. "We know exactly our running costs per mile, we have advance warning of any oncoming engine damage, and a mass of highly important management information that comes literally streaming out of the Automaster unit," says Round.
George Hobday, managing director of Automated Fuelling Systems — Lowthian House, Market Street, Preston — says that more than 1,000 units have already been installed in the thS
The company markets, installs and services a range of other Automaster equipment, controlling petroleum fuelling sites for companies with fleets from six to 2,000 vehicles.