Roadmap monthly newsletter - July 2012

July
2012

Roadmap monthly newsletter In this issue

New features
Editorial New detail added to the
map’s infobox

L
et the games begin!
Travel time added to the
Every 4 years the world sends its best
Visit to places report
athletes to compete and try to get the
ultimate trophy: a medal. That’s currently
more than 10,000 athletes from more than 200 Case Studies
nations, competing in over 300 different disciplines. Evro Sped – Reducing costs and
supervising driving behavior
What strikes me in the Olympics is how the number of medals conquered by a
country is somewhat aligned with that nation’s total GDP. Štupica Transport – Making
drivers’work easier
You see, it’s not only the size of the population. India has traditionally never
been a huge winner of Olympic medals, although its population is one of the
largest in the world. In Beijing 2008, India won 3 medals in total. That was India’s This and much more…
record number of medals in the Olympics. With the country’s GDP quickly
growing, some analysts now point to 7-8 medals for India in 2012.
Likewise, Qatar, listed by the World Bank and the IMF as the world’s richest
country per capita, has also historically never reached a high number of medals.
In fact, they won one bronze medal in 1992 and another one in 2000. The citizen
population totals less than 300,000.
When the size of a population is multiplied by a large GDP per capita, that’s
when countries are more successful winning Olympic medals. Makes sense,
right? If your country has a large population (potential for many athletes) and at
the same time resources to invest in them (GDP), then you will probably applaud
a lot this summer, as your nation grabs a good share of medals.
I find some similarities between these conclusions and what happens with
companies. Sometimes companies have good business plans and the necessary
skills but not enough resources to bring them to full potential. Nowadays, with
banks reducing credit for companies, it is even more important to cut down on
unnecessary costs and to apply resources on the real “athletes”: good projects,
good skills.
Frotcom can contribute by helping you reduce your unnecessary fleet costs and
save money. Use that money on your company’s athletes and the “medals” will
come.
And by the way, good luck to your country, on the London Olympics!
Valério Marques
CEO - Frotcom International
A note from the editor – If you would like to have your own say in the next edition of this newsletter please do
not hesitate to get in touch at roadmap@frotcom.com.

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Did you know?

Case study

Štupica Transport – making drivers’ work easier
Štupica Transport is a transportation company founded in 1991 in Ribnica,
Slovenia. Three years ago, in search for a vehicle tracking solution, the company A campaign about how to
found Frotcom and due to its generous offer of features they immediately
travel smart in the city
installed it on their fleet.
The company prides itself with a fleet of 30 modern MAN trucks. Among them, On July 4 2012, the European
25 vehicles comply with the EURO 5 emissions standard and are equipped with Commission launched a three-
year Sustainable Urban mobility
EEV (Enhanced Environmentally friendly Vehicles) engines. This, along with the
campaign in 31 countries, aiming
use of Frotcom, can only lead to classifying Štupica as an ecologically-oriented
to promote the advantages of
company. smartly combining different
Besides performing quantitative and volumetric transport modes of transportation.
loads up to 25 tones, the company’s services are The private car is no longer the
supplemented by offering truck wash, service garage and only choice for trips around the
tracking shipments enabled by Frotcom. city. Maybe you want to improve
your health by cycling to work, or
For a complete profile you can check here the company’s official website. perhaps you’re eager to see the
city from a new perspective by
taking a tram through the side
streets? You could meet new
people by choosing to car share
or save time by checking your e-
mail on the train. Whatever your
vision, a revolution is underway in
our mobility culture.
Seeking new ideas on how to do
the right mix? Find out by clicking
here. Looking for financial
In 2009, Štupica Transport started using the Frotcom services which have fully support to put into practice your
meet their expectations. sustainable urban mobility ideas?
You can apply here.
Fleet Manager, Robert Štupica, declared “Before we decided to use Frotcom
Everyone, from NGOs to
vehicle tracking, we also tested other providers from Slovenia. We chose
individuals can show intelligent
Frotcom because it offered significantly more features than its competition. and sustainable use of transport,
Frotcom tracking system is user friendly, with a fast and reliable web application. by registering a relevant action
For us, the most important function is reading CANbus data - fuel consumption. and share with the world his/her
With Frotcom we reduced our costs and made drivers and disponents work own personal success story. And
easier. We also appreciate the fast support from Frotcom Slovenia. After two don’t forget, with rising energy
years of working with Frotcom Slovenia and using Frotcom’s vehicle tracking prices, embracing sustainable
system we came to the conclusion that more than two years ago we made the urban mobility will also save you
correct decision.” money!

ROADMAP congratulates the Frotcom Slovenia team for this successful project! Doing the right mix campaign
brings out the revolution already
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the mindset in the field of
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Tip of the month

News features Editing the names
of the place types
New detail added to map’s infobox
You edit and change the names of
In order for Frotcom users to easily
place types. What you need to do is
contact their drivers, Frotcom added a follow three simple steps:
small but important detail to the map’s
1. In Administration > Places,
infobox – the mobile phone number. click on the Edit place types
This contact information can be quickly button, at the bottom.
edited in Administration > Drivers >
Details.
A mobile phone number can be now easily associated to each driver, showing
directly on the infobox, on the map.

Average consumption per hour shows in more places
As you know, Frotcom already calculates and displays the
average consumption per hour in several places in Frotcom,
2. This button will pop up a list
e.g. at the bottom of CANBus graphs. Now, the average with all the place types.
consumption is also available in four other sections:

1. In the Trip details of CANBus equipped vehicles;
2. In the CANBus report;
3. In the CANBus detailed report, with also an extra column "Engine hours";
4. In the Trips spanned report with CANBus.

Travel time added to the Visit to places report
3. To change a place type name,
Questioning how much time drivers spend on a trip from one place to another
click on it. A new window pops
can be a continuous worry for the fleet managers. To make things easier, the
up, where you can make the
Visit to places report now has a new column, called Trip duration. This column changes you need. For
displays the time spent by the vehicle to travel to each place. instance, in the case below, we
will change Active customer to
Sales point.

4. Now click Save. From now on,
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instead of Active customers.
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Next, on Roadmap
Case Study
Evro Sped – Reducing costs and
News and events,
supervising driving behavior
more new Frotcom features
Established in 1992, Evro Sped is an international transporting company with
over 19 years of active operations in the field of international land transport. In and tips will be presented.
October 2010 the company started using Frotcom and since then they have
managed to use their resources much more efficiently.
Evro Sped seeks continuously new contacts for import and export operations in
order to meet the requirements of a growing market. Thanks to their reliable This and more, so don’t miss
collaborators and customers the company has succeeded in gaining a good
reputation on both national and international level. the next issue of Roadmap.

Their fleet of 24 Volvo trucks (conformed to the Euro 5 emissions standard) is
able to work out optimal routes and to deliver client's goods on time and at
reasonable costs. This is a result of the transport organization with two drivers in
every truck, with the strict observation of national and international
requirements, and also of the use of a vehicle tracking system to manage
operations. Evro Sped has been using Frotcom for almost two years and
nowadays they have the system installed on all their vehicles.
Zoran Gjorchev, Manager at Evro Sped commented that “With
Frotcom we managed to use our resources much more efficiently.
Through the integrated navigation the communication with our
drivers became simpler, clearer and more economic. Moreover,
Frotcom’s CANBus module also enabled us to have access vehicle
data from our trucks which permits us to control driving behavior,
save fuel and decrease costs.”
Evro Sped experience allowed the company to build a net of land transport in
whole Europe, focusing especially on loading from / to Western Europe. For a
complete profile of Evro Sped visit their website here.
ROADMAP congratulates the Frotcom Macedonia team for this successful project!
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