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MS-09: Vehicle Management
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3062 Car Maintenance Small Programs Disk
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Automobile Expense Database 1.21 (AED)
DAXaCK Consulting Associates
$10
keeps track of expenses incurred for your car. The program is menu driven and
easy to use. Monthly expense reports can be printed. A hard disk is
recommended.
C.A.R.S. 2.8 (CARS)
Cybernetic Software ASP
$40
allows you to track your vehicle expenses in any of up to 26 user defined
categories and watch your milage and costs. It allows for the logging of
business and/or personal trips and provides totals for tax or accounting
purposes. Other features include full screen data entry, and mouse support.
CarStat
Raush, Bill
$2
keeps track of a car's maintenance record and warns you (via a utility in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT) when it is time to change the oil, get a tune up, or have the car
waxed.
FTree
Cooney Applied Technology
$0
will help you find out why your car won't start by asking you a series of
questions. Some of the answers are too obvious; others are like this: "Is there
at least 6v on the starter terminal?"
Tune-Up
CoNation Publications
$0
is a guide to easy car repairs and regular maintenance. It covers the basics
including fluids, filters, spark plugs and more.
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Automobile Maintenance
Knoblauch, George T.
$20
#4336
is an introductory tutorial on basic auto maintenance. As hard as it may be
for shade tree mechanics to believe, there are people who do not know how to
fill a gas tank, much less check things like tire wear, battery condition,
fluid levels, and so on. This program combines text and animated graphics to
teach you those things, as well as basic automotive theory.
Auto Manager
Merideth, K. William, Jr.
$15
#27229/1265
is an automobile management system for up to nine vehicles. It allows you to
set up maintenance schedules and check to see what maintenance has been done
or is due for a particular vehicle and category. A hard disk is required.
Chris's Automobile Recorder
Cooney Applied Technology
$?
#27229/2360
keeps a maintenance log for any car, truck, motorcycle, boat, or train and
reminds you when Preventive Maintenance and Inspections are due. It keeps some
cost statistics, but is primarily intended to track maintenance and repair,
not costs. The program is very easy and efficient to use. You can specify a
vehicle on the command line or pick one from a menu. Defaults are offered for
fuel supplier, fuel type, repair provider, etc., for quick entry. Features
include support for metric users, European style dates, machinery maintenance
mode, and non-IBM compatible printers.
Vehicle Maintenance & Vehicle Expenses
LaRonge, Gary ASP
$4
#27229/1059
is a well-written program for keeping track of routine maintenance and
expenses on your car. VM lets you specify the mileage interval for routine
maintenance as given in your car's owner's manual and enter the service to be
done at each interval. Then you go in at any time, enter your present
mileage, and VM tells you what mileage the next maintenance is scheduled for
and optionally prints out a list of work to be done (for do-it-yourselfers).
VMSYS+ 2.6 (Vehicle Management System)
Contact Plus Corporation
$56
#27229/1282
will help you keep track of gas mileage and miles driven on a rolling 13 month
history. Information is presented graphically helping you to spot engine
trouble attributed to a loss in MPG. VMSYS also aids you in predicting when to
do scheduled maintenance. The system is limited to 2 vehicles. Support is
provided for a mouse and EGA/VGA.
TLC Truck Data 5.0
Wilson, James H. ASP
$125
#27230/1268 [2 disks]
handles maintenance records and schedules for a small to medium fleet of cars
and trucks. It produces dBASE III compatible files and indexes. It reports
and calculates miles per gallon between fillups as well as over a vehicle's
lifespan. It prints exception report for vehicles overdue for routine service
maintenance.
Features include the following: a fuel tax entry routine and a system to
provide mileage traveled by state for common carrier trucking companies;
reminder of routine periodic inspections at user defined mileage and date
intervals; printed reports include vehicle maintenance history, fuel use,
maintenance schedules, exception report of overdue maintenance, vehicle lists,
bill of sale and more. You can locate vehicles quickly by number, tag number,
VIN or driver and it will handle vehicle numbers up to 999. A second disk
contains demonstration files. If you're not interested just ask for the first
disk.
Note: The program requires the data files to be in the root directory of the
drive specified on the first menu screen.
Vehicle Record System Plus 2.0 [VRS]
K-Jon Software
$70
#27230/3020
is a comprehensive vehicle management system for homes and businesses. It
tracks fuel, maintenance, insurance, registration, tires, loans, travel, cost
per mile, and more for two vehicles. It will track vehicles by odometer or by
hours, for boats, private planes, heavy equipment, etc. You can easily
determine and analyze vehicle costs for any period of time, and it reminds you
of service dates. Requires 640K and a hard disk.
Fleet Maintenance System
MicroServices
$75
#27230/3106
keeps track of information concerning a fleet of vehicles, gasoline usage and
repair work. Prints reports about gasoline usage, repair history, next
scheduled maintenance and more. Requires 512K.
Auto-Mate
Ray, John
$25
#27230/4018
keeps track of vehicle maintenance and expenses. It maintains up to 10 expense
categories and 10 maintenance categories. It reminds you when maintenance is
due. It tracks fuel economy, total operating cost, and cost per mile/kilometer.
The program can be used for a single-car family or for a company's fleet of
cars.
PC-VIN
PMA Technology Group
$51
#27701/4100 [2 disks]
is an easy to use system that translates a vehicle's VIN code into meaningful
information. This information can be useful when servicing a vehicle or ordering
replacement parts. The program covers 1981-1991 vehicles. 2.5 meg of hard disk
space is required.
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