User`s guide

PC*MILER-AS400 User’s Guide 6
1.0 Introduction
Congratulations! By purchasing a PC*MILER product, you have made a
cost-effective investment in high quality software that is simple to learn
and easy to use. PC*MILER for the AS400 uses simple-to-follow menus
and requires minimal keystrokes to generate routing and mileage
information. Shortest, Practical, National Network, Toll-Discouraged, and
53' Trailer routes can be calculated in a matter of seconds and can include
up to 30 stops.
PC*MILER for the AS400 includes all the standard features found in the
PC version, including the Hub Distance Generator, Spelling Helper, route
resequencing, and user-defined time and cost estimates. You are referred
to the main PC*MILER User’s Guide for a more thorough discussion of
these features. With PC*MILER-AS400, you can quickly and easily
generate point-to-point miles, driving instructions, and mileage summaries
broken down by toll roads and freeways. A route map of a trip can be
viewed and printed from a PC with PC*MILER|Mapping installed. In-
house software can be customized to draw the ETA status of a truck’s
current location during a trip.
PC*MILER for the AS400 utilizes a unique distributed processing solution.
This solution maximizes the efficiency of your AS400 by "farming out"
repetitive mileage calculations to a PC. With PC*MILER-AS400, you can
benefit from having a seamless mileage interface with your management
system. Interfaces have been developed for Innovative Computing
Corporation, Qualcomm, and others.
Use PC*MILER for the AS400 to audit driver logs and supplement your
fuel tax reports. Increase driver productivity by using PC*MILER's driving
instructions, ETA's with graphical truck display and trip sequencing. In
addition, your purchase of PC*MILER-AS400 will eliminate the high costs
of leasing mileage systems or paying exorbitant transaction fees.