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Originally Posted by alexpnn
HI ,
We are a taxi company Hummingbird Cars in London. We provide Airport Transfer service from all london airports.
We have recently started our new business and we require to buy Car navigation system or Tom Toms . Can anyone suggest which company is the best and where we can get the best deals.
Thank you
Alex
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A few things to consider. How many are you talking about? If it is less than a dozen, you probably cannot save enough money on quantity to cover a big investment in research. Your drivers will save more money in a week than you can spend on nav.
You are talking about London where drivers spend months to years just qualifying on "the knowledge." Ideally, one would like a lot of that knowledge encapsulated in one's nav system. I would not be surprised if one system or another worked better in London than its competitors. However, we do not know that on this side of the pond. Take a ride with your competitors and see what they say.
Your drivers will spend some time telling the nav system the destination. Systems vary in how easy this is to do. Of those that I have used, I find the TomTom the easiest to set up trips. Consider where and when the driver will do this. I prefer portable systems to built in ones because I can plan trips before I even get in the car.
The first nav systems that I saw in taxis were in Rome and they were TomTom. This was well before nav systems were the consumer items that they are today. Navigating in Rome must be more similar to London than in New York.
Finally, professional drivers need a system that can obtain and use traffic information. In the states, this service can cost more in a year than you will spend for the device.
You are right that this is a very important decision, one that can save your fleet hundreds of pounds a year. However, your decision should focus more on the potential savings than the initial cost.
11-07-2009, 02:59 PM
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