Poland – Orlen Data System for Transportation

Poznan Business Data System won the tender for the implementation of the company Orlen copyright Transportation Fleet DS system to fleet management.

Orlen is the largest carrier transport of liquid fuels in Poland. Each tank, the vehicle fleet, numbering 190, belonging to the company will have installed the GPS device. This allows the company will be able to monitor the work of drivers around the clock to track items used trucks tankers, their routes, journey times to a designated station, the course of unloading procedures, and emergency dispatchers will immediately notify the system about the event.

All information obtained is installed on vehicles with GPS and data from other IT applications company Orlen Transportation will be automatically reported to the persons supervising the work of the fleet of tankers. Platform DS fleet will also keep alert for any unauthorized events related to the transport fuels.

Fleet management system implemented fully automate existing processes currently operating in Orlen Transportation.
It is the flexibility and lack of functional limitations in the Platform DS Fleet decided to choose the company Data System of the many other competing IT companies.

Preparation of the comprehensive system for the transport company Orlen Data System has worked for many months. “The secret of our success lies precisely in the fact that the customer does not have to choose from ready-made suggestions, but we create a bespoke management system based on the specific needs of the customer” – explains Krzysztof Glogowski, Commercial Director Data System.

Thanks to pay the cost of investing in a very short time and the system immediately begins to reap the benefits in terms of reducing costs, improving productivity of the enterprise and increase work efficiency.

Trucking market In Poland aims to bottom and…regroup

In first three months of 2009 year were sold in Poland only 14 thousand trucks. It mean decrease of 31% compared to the first quarter of last year is due to report the Polish Automotive Industry.

Trucking market In Poland aims to bottom

Although the decline in sales in the European Union amounted to 35.6% and Poland very well presented on the background of our part of Europe so sector of polish cars market also fall into trouble.

Most decrease in sale check off on segment trucks over 16t. Sale decrease in first quarter by 70% compared to analogous period in 2008. About 65% decrease sale of utility cars over 3,5t. Slightly better looks situation in case of commercial vehicles to 3,5t. Here in first quarter sale was less than year ago only15,5%. Michał Kloc, president of board of Sobiesław Zasada Kraków Sp. z o.o, receipts that after last two years became huge decrease sale of trucks. The improved results do not help big quality of vehicles from 2008 on producers slopes and dealers. Additional competition are used vehicles which became vindicated by leasing firms from failing transport companies.

Difficult market situation for commercial vehicles due to among other attractive offer of used vehicles confirms the analysis of Automotive Market Research Institute SAMAR.

High supply of used cars make serious retrenchments in possibility of sale new vehicles, especially trucks – say Wojciech Drzewiecki, president of SAMAR – Need to add that vehicles are well conditioned and very good prices. Limit of trucks stock is good shown. Present powers freights are much bigger than possibility of transport goods by firms. If infrastructure investment will faster dealing, we would hale Better use for this kind of vehicles on build places. – with decreasing request on drawing saddles, request on carriages will grow.

In assessing the rates and structure the sale of heavy goods vehicles can be made argument that concentration on freight has moved from international transport to national. There will be a clear regrouping of transport – delivery companies. President Kloc add, that increase the number of orders of specialized vehicles with fire premises, sanitation etc.

It is difficult to predict development of situation in the commercial vehicle market in the coming months. Results of sales in April were similar to those achieved in the first three months. Experts predict that only the strong signals to improve the national and European economy influence on positive changes on the automotive markets.

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