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Brief Intro to PC*Miler [Demo]**NEW** PC*Miler 22 NOW Shipping
TECHNOLOGY THAT DRIVES TRANSPORTATION™ More than 40 IFTA/IRP jurisdictions are using PC MILER as an auditing tool. PC*MILER is also used by more than 750 FHWA federal and state safety investigators to verify motor carriers' compliance with safety regulations. Carriers, shippers and logistics companies of all sizes recognize control is a good thing for profits. And control is what you get when you manage your shipments with PC*MILER Solutions. From routing, mapping and vehicle tracking, to mileage and rate analysis, PC*MILER Solutions put you in control of your operations -- and in control of your bottom line. PC*MILER Solutions run on all platforms and are Internet/Intranet compatible. Used alone or integrated with your AXON software, boosting productivity and managing assets is both easy and cost effective. With the largest and most accurate database in the industry, you'll be in good company with over 15,000 companies worldwide who use and recommend PC*MILER Solutions. Take control with PCMILER Solutions. More companies use them, more professionals recommend them. For more information, to order your new solution or to simply update/upgrade, call 1-800-567-8385, fill out our online form or email us at pcmiler@axonsoftware.com. A Brief Introduction To PC*MILERINTRODUCTION PC*MILER is a point-to-point routing, mileage and mapping software application which generates detailed reports, routes, mileages, and maps over the entire United States, Canadian and Mexican truck-usable highway network. It features the largest and most accurate North American highway database on the market. PC*MILER is used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) as their worldwide distance standard, and is the routing and mileage software used by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA) Office of Motor Carriers (OMC) to verify motor carrier compliance with federal safety regulations. Over 800 FMCSA and state safety investigators use PC MILER in their daily auditing procedures. In addition, more than 40 IFTA and IRP states and provinces use PC*MILER as an auditing tool for fuel and mileage tax audit procedures. PC*MILER includes the following features and applications: Point-to-Point Distance Calculation:
Routing and Optimization:
Detailed Driving Instructions:
State Mileage Summary Report:
Map Quality Graphics:
DATABASE The PC*MILER database is modeled on ALK's proprietary computer representation of the North American highway system. The mileages contained in PCMILER are derived from FMSCA, Official State highway maps, State DOT maps, county maps, local maps, and information from thousands of industry contacts. The PC*MILER database includes all Interstate, Federal, and truck-usable State and Provincial highways. The current North American Network contains over 734,500 miles of highway, including 16,000 additional miles of highway access ramps throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Greenland, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The PC*MILER database contains over 340,000 accessible cities, towns and point of interest, including:
There are five routing types available in PC*MILER: PRACTICAL ROUTING represents the distances and driving routes a driver would normally take to minimize time and cost. Practical Routes model the trade-off between taking the most direct path and staying on major, high quality highways. SHORTEST ROUTING represents the distances and driving routes a vehicle would take to minimize total distance traveled while still following a reasonable route. NATIONAL NETWORK ROUTING is based on a government-designated highway system for over-dimensionalized vehicles. 53' TRAILER ROUTING is also based on a government-designated highway system for over-dimensionalized vehicles and incorporates the legal road designations for 53' trailers. TOLL-DISCOURAGED ROUTING is based on PC*MILER Practical Routing. Toll-Discouraged Routing avoids long stretches of toll roads without taking impractical detours to avoid toll bridges and tunnels. FEATURES The following PC*MILER features are covered in this section:
ROUTE ENTRY With PC*MILER you can enter a route with unlimited stops. PC*MILER route entry features include a Spelling Helper, ZIP Code Helper, and a Pick-List of state abbreviations. When you enter a city and state, PC*MILER will automatically assign the county name. Your route can include border crossings, highway junctions, truck stop locations, and your own custom names in addition to towns, cities, ZIP Codes, and latitude/longitude coordinates. Every time you run a route in PC*MILER, four calculations are made for each leg of the trip: miles between stops, cumulative miles from origin, cumulative cost of the trip, and cumulative hours for the trip.
Once your route has been determined, you may generate multiple routing scenarios: HUB DISTANCE GENERATOR PC*MILER allows you to generate mileages from one origin, defined as the 'Hub,' to unlimited destinations. (Both Detailed Route and State Mileage Summary Reports are available).
ROUTE RESEQUENCING Route Resequencing minimizes total route time and distance by re-ordering the stops entered in the active route entry window, keeping the origin the same. Resequencing a route gives you the optimal order of stops for your route and will dramatically reduce overall fleet mileage. Depending on your specified routing type, resequencing a route can minimize the total time, distance, toll distance, or distance of the National Network of your route.
This feature enables users to move stops up and down within the active route entry window and between route entry windows. To move a stop within a window, first select a stop, hold down the SHIFT key and then use the up and down arrows to move the stop to the correct location within the trip. To move a stop between route entry windows, select a stop in one window (the cursor will then become a finger with a plus on it) and drag it to another route entry window. Once you release the mouse, the stop will be added to the end of the target route. CUSTOM PLACE MANAGER With PC*MILER users can assign their own names to locations in the database to create customized place names for customers, terminals, warehouses or distribution centers. To do so, select Manage Custom Place from the Tools menu to bring up the Custom Place Manager dialog box.
Then enter the name you wish to assign in the Custom Name field and the proper name of the location in the Location field. Click Add and your custom name will be added to the list in the dialog box. Click Pick Stop and it will be added to the stop list in the route entry window, marked with an asterisk (*). An unlimited number of custom points may be added and deleted. AVOID OR FAVOR ROADS This feature allows you to indicate road segments, entire roads and entire jurisdictions you wish to avoid or favor when generating a route. Once your route has been generated, click on avoid and favor road buttons in the main Tool Bar and then click on the road segments you wish to avoid or favor on your route. A green or red crosshatch pattern will appear on the road segment selected; a green crosshatch pattern indicates a favored road, while a red crosshatch pattern indicates you have avoided that road. You can view your selections and make further customizations in the Custom Roads Manager in the Tools Menu.
This feature allows you to override truck-restricted roads (roads that trucks are prohibited to use by the controlling governmental authority). Roads in the PC*MILER database that are designated as restricted appear in yellow on the map. These restrictions often force you to take longer routes and in some cases deny access to more remote places. With the Override button you can manually override these otherwise restricted roads. To override a truck-restricted road, simply check on "Custom" in the options dialog box, click on the Override button on the tool bar of the RouteMap window, and click on the road you wish to override. Once you have overridden a truck-restricted road, it will be outlined in a thin green line. All changes will be taken into account for the next route. SEASONAL ROUTING This feature allows you to specify, save, and group different routing preferences based on seasonal routing conditions. For example, if you know certain portions of a route are often closed in the winter due to snow conditions, save that route as a 'summer' preference and your alternate route as a 'winter' preference. CUSTOM ROADS MANAGER The Custom Roads Manager allows you to see which road segments in the database are marked as avoided, favored, or overridden as accessible roads. Choose Manage Custom Roads from the Tools menu to open the Custom Roads Manager dialog box. As you override a prohibited road segment, a record is automatically saved in the Restriction Overrides tab. The Sets tab enables you to manage multiple sets of roads to be avoided, favored, or overridden, and allows you to create custom sets, such as seasonal routing preferences. You can also avoid or favor whole roads or whole states using the Roads and States tabs.
Truck stops appear as red fuel pump icons on the map and can be added as stops on a route. To find truck stops in a particular state, users can type "@," plus the state abbreviation in the route entry window to bring up a pick list, then pick one from the list as a stop. Another way to add a truck stop to a route is to click the Pick Stops button on the tool bar and then click on a fuel pump icon on the map.
Once a route has been generated, PC*MILER creates several reports and a map: DETAILED ROUTE REPORT The PC*MILER detailed route report gives you the following information: state, toll, or free road, direction of travel, route, segment distance, driving time, interchange point, leg mileage and time, cumulative trip mileage and total trip time. It also includes stop time and cost, empty or loaded status for each leg of the trip, and, if on-duty hours allowed between breaks has been specified and when breaks should occur.
The state mileage summary report summarizes mileages by state and 'country' (US, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, or Mexico) traveled. Toll/free, empty/loaded and ferry mileages are listed, in addition to total miles.
The Comparison Report lists total mileage plus cost and time estimates for all generated routes.
RouteMap users can click the right mouse button to zoom in and out of the display, frame routes, control map detail to view routes, roads, and place names, as well as display country and state boundaries, preferred and avoided roads, city names, highways and roads. ZOOM TO STOP This feature allows you to zoom in on a particular stop. Once you've entered stop(s) in the route entry window, highlight the stop you want to zoom in on. Click on the Zoom to Stop button on the tool bar and the map will automatically open centered around the highlighted stop. INDIVIDUAL ROUTE FRAMING This feature lets users automatically zoom in on one particular route on the map. In the route entry window, highlight a route to view and click on the Frame button. The map will display the entire route, centered in the RouteMap window. CONNECTIVITY PRODUCTS PC*MILER Connectivity Products allow transportation professionals, spreadsheet users and software developers to access PCMILER mileage information, routes, and geographic data from within their own transportation and logistics management software applications. PC MILER Connectivity Products use Dynamic Link Library technology to easily integrate PC*MILER into software such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access, as well as development environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Delphi. The Connectivity Products are PC*MILER/Spreadsheets, PC*MILER/Connect, PC*MILER/Mapping and PC*MILER/BatchPro™. PC*MILER/Spreadsheets PC*MILER/Spreadsheets generates point-to-point mileages that can be easily accessed by spreadsheet users from within Microsoft Excel. PC*MILER/Spreadsheets commands are typed as formulas in spreadsheet cells, similar to using Excel functions.
The Miles function enables you to get the miles between an origin and a destination for all four routing types. For example, to calculate the Practical miles between Princeton, NJ and San Francisco, CA in Excel, enter the 'Miles' function in an adjacent cell as shown below.
Other functions allow you to determine the approximate driving time between two latitude/longitude points, to translate a ZIP code/Postal code into a City Name (and vice versa), or to translate a City Name, ZIP code, or Postal code into a PC*MILER place name. PC*MILER/Spreadsheets allows you to build a mileage database and let spreadsheet functions summarize and analyze your data for price quotes, driver pay, cost analysis, freight bill auditing, and much more. Its functions enable you to access, organize and analyze mileage data in new and more efficient ways from within your own spreadsheet application. PC*MILER/CONNECT PC*MILER/Connect is a web-enabled integration tool which allows transportation professionals and software developers to access the full range of PC*MILER routes, mileages and reports, including driving times, state-by-state mileage summaries, detailed driving instructions, and stop optimization within their transportation and logistics management software. PC*MILER/Connect provides a COM Interface to enhance integration with OLE-enabled development environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, and Active Server Pages (ASP). Included with PC*MILER/Connect, is a Java Native Interface (JNI) layer to simplify the integration with Java-based software applications. This thread-safe module even has the ability to generate reports in HTML format. PC*MILER/Mapping PC*MILER/Mapping is a web-enabled mapping tool which lets you graphically display PC*MILER routes and geographical data for integration with real-time dispatch and operations analysis. With PC*MILER/Mapping, you can integrate real-time maps with all leading fleet management, supply chain management; and mobile communication systems to display all of your operational data. PC*MILER/Mapping enhances PC*MILER by adding the ability to display geographical data as 'pin' maps. Users are able to display pins, lines, and customized routes. Software developers can include PC*MILER/Mapping commands in their spreadsheet, database, and custom applications. PC*MILER/Mapping uses a COM Interface to enhance integration with OLE-enabled development environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, and Active Server Pages (ASP). PC*MILER/Mapping includes a Java Native Interface (JNI) layer to simplify the integration with Java-based software applications. This thread-safe module also allows users to generate multiple maps and GIF images. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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