Sunday, January 23, 2011

For First-time & Existing Taxi Operators, Have You Heard of the Pinoy Road Runner Taximeter???

For the past 5 or so years, I have always visited the Alexan Commercial booth at the Manila International Bookfair to look at the latest books in Logistics, Supply chain or blogs and the owner and her daughter have always made it a pleasure to source books, my true vice, from them.

courtesy of alexan commercial
Alexan's Pinoy Road Runner Taximeter with Anti-Tamper Feature
  What I did not know was that Alexan is also into the manufacture of Taximeters.  Well, they used to import taximeters (as far back as 2004) but her husband being an inventor and an electronic genius, has invented his own taximeter which seems to offer even more features than imported ones.

Some of the noteworthy features (for more details, visit their website):

1.  HOW MANY RIDERS HAVE HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF RIDING A TAXI WITH A FAST TAXIMETER?

The Alexan taximeter called the Pinoy Road Runner has a security feature that will prevent the taxidriver from using what we call locally as the "batingting" which is an electrical switch that when activated causes the imported taximeter to appear to be going faster than it actually is and of course, make the taximeter register a higher taxi fare.

Whenever the taxidriver attempts to tamper the taximeter with a "batingting", the Pinoy Road Runner taximeter will sense the tamper & freeze the taxi fare at the last registered level before the tampering occurred, no matter how far the taxe will still travel. 

The only way the driver can unfreeze the Pinoy Road Runner is to reset it by doing another Flagdown, in which case the rider will not agree to paying another minimum fare!!!

2.  The Pinoy Road Runner taximeter uses locally-available printer paper.  (imported taximeters do not have working printers after a while due to the problem of sourcing for the special printer paper)

3.  The Pinoy Road Runner taximeter has the ability to compute the total fare revenue on a per shift basis when there are 2 shifts involved. (Imported taximeters can only register total revenue per day)

This can help the operator in setting boundary levels per shift, analyze productivity of each driver for greater revenue and many more.

4.  Because the taximeter is digital and the software was developed locally, Alexan can offer more features and have these features downloaded to existing Pinoy Road Runner taximeters.  (Try doing that with imported taximeters---IMPOSSIBLE!!!).

5.  Provides status of battery charge (not available in any imported taximeter)

6.  Lower price than imported taximeters.

Should you be interested. please call Tel 514-2905 or text 0922-8831225.

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