The Worthing-based operator is expanding, with several new bus and school transport contracts, and needed to update and streamline fleet maintenance management with a single, integrated solution.
After hearing about Reading Buses’ system, it decided to look at the provider.
“That system was Freeway and it was immediately evident that it offered everything we were looking for,” says Malcolm Gallicham, engineering director at Compass Travel.
Compass will use the system to manage vehicles, as well as other workshop assets such as lifting and calibration equipment. “We see Freeway more as an asset management system, not just a fleet system, since it handles the complete lifecycle of a piece of equipment, or part, from order to replacement.
“We will be able to manage everything in one place and track performance of all items to provide us with some very useful management information,” predicts Gallichan.
Of note, says Gallichan, is Freeway’s diary system, which he believes will be “a tremendous help” for tracking workshop schedules: “It gives us an instant visual view of the fleet maintenance work with ‘traffic light’ colour coding to highlight job status.”
Compass Travel operates a fleet of predominantly ADL Enviro 200 vehicles, along with DAF, Volvo and Optare buses, and Scania and Volvo coaches.