"Like everyone else we had the Coach Manager PHC system when it came out. When our companies merged, we wanted a powerful modern system. We thought we'd approach Distinctive Systems and they now look after our entire system. You could say they are our IT people. When we've got a problem we speak to them and it's sorted. They're great - they're reliable and never let us down. If they can help you, they will and that's what I like about them."

Peter Fyvie, General Manager, Edinburgh Coach Lines

Click here to read CBW News Reporter Gareth Evan's feature on Edinburgh Coach Lines.

Distinctive Systems won the only award open to coach industry suppliers at the first ever UK Coach Awards held at London's prestigious Tower Hotel on Friday 27th March.

The citation read out at the presentation was as follows: -

'The reason for the award can be summed up in one phrase from one of their clients, who told us: "When ever there is a problem, query or just putting correct our own errors, nothing is ever too much trouble." You can't say fairer than that!'

After a six year gap, the evening saw the return of the hugely successful Coach Industry Awards, originally set up and run by Coach and Bus Week magazine.

Rebranded as the UK Coach Awards, they were presented in joint venture with the publishers of Group Travel Organiser magazine and the organisers of the already highly successful UK Bus Awards.

The event was timed to take place during British Tourism Week and to coincide with the Best of Britain and Ireland Travel Trade Forum at ExCeL in Docklands.

Click here to read the full CBW follow-up article.

Robin Cornish of Distinctive Systems receiving the award from Mark Fryer of Albatross and Wilben Short of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.

Pinpointers, a provider of vehicle tracking and mobile workforce services, has announced that its fleet tracking systems now support seamless integration with our industry-standard Coach Manager booking system.

With the new facility, all contract and private hire bookings together with their associated movements are automatically loaded into the Pinpointers Jobs Management Suite. For every vehicle that has a Pinpointers tracking system installed, a corresponding job is created for each movement in Coach Manager. The fleet manager can then monitor the performance of their bookings in real time on the Pinpointers Web Interface.

Please click here to read the full press release.

A second press release covering customer access to vehicle locations is available here.

"We developed our own system in partnership with another company back in the 1980s. It was very expensive at the time. Gradually the costly old mainframe computers gave way to PCs and we eventually abandoned the system and went with the flow with Distinctive Systems."

Andrew Richmond, Managing Director, Epsom Coaches

Click here to read CBW News Reporter Gareth Evan's feature on how Epsom Coaches relies on our systems to manage everything from day excursions to vehicle maintenance.

The introduction of our new Microsoft SQL Server based Tour Booking System has been a huge success. Over 40 operators are now using the system and around half have already implemented the taking of online bookings.

For further details please click here.

Chambers of Northern Ireland has implemented Internet based satellite tracking from Masternaut Three X. Chambers is a long standing user of our Microsoft SQL Server based Coach Manager private hire and contract booking system and was therefore able to take immediate advantage of our existing Masternaut integration.

Please click here to read the full Coach and Bus Week news item.

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