Some operations, especially those serving airports, have insufficient space at the actual rental location for the entire fleet. This necessitates having one or more off-site staging lots for cleaning, prepping, and storing vehicles between rentals. Making use of the Vehicle Staging logic helps in tracking the fleet between the time the vehicles are returned and when they are made available for the next rental.

Use this program to monitor the vehicles in the on-site and off-site lots in accordance with the upcoming reservations. It provides a dynamic display of the number of upcoming reservations as well as the number of vehicles by class in each lot. The screen automatically refreshes every 30 seconds.

To access the Lot Controller program, type LOTCTRL (RET) at any menu "OPTION:" field or the appropriate line number on the Dispatch menu. The screen will automatically display the data.

The lots selected for the display is dependent upon how lots have been defined in Edit Lot Relationships:

• A lot can be designated as the 'default' lot. The lot that is marked as the 'default' renting lot for the user's location is the main renting lot.
• A lot can be linked to a Drawer record in Edit Cash Drawers. Users logged in with that drawer number will have that lot as their main renting lot.
• Other lots for the location (that are not the default lot) are listed as space allows.

Starting time is one hour earlier than the current time.
Ending time is one hour after the current time. However, if the one hour causes the date to change, the ending time is 9 am on the new date.

An example of a display is shown below with comments following it:

OPTION: CONTROLLER DISPLAY ------Lot01----- Ready Lot01 Lot02 Lot01 Lot02 Other Class Gold Res Alloc Aval Line Clean Clean Dirty Dirty Dirty CCAR 0 3 0 4 1 3 3 0 0 3 FCAR 0 3 0 0 -3 4 1 0 0 1 SCAR 1 4 1 2 -2 0 0 0 0 2 ICAR 0 6 5 4 3 0 0 0 0 1 MVAR 3 4 4 0 -3 10 9 12 0 0 STAR 0 2 2 4 4 7 7 13 0 4 MVAR 1 4 2 4 1 1 2 7 1 2 Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 5 26 14 18 1 25 22 32 1 13 Vacant 15 1=NEW DRAWER F2=NEW PERIOD F3=THROUGH TOMORROW

Reading the display:

Left Column:

Class - up to 18 classes can be displayed. A field in the Edit Class Codes record indicates whether the class will be displayed on page 1, page 2, or not at all.

Other - total of all other classes that are not displayed on the page.

Columns:

Gold - the number of unfilled Gold reservations, including pre-prints.

Res - the number of unfilled reservations (other than Gold).

Alloc - the number of vehicles assigned to a pre-printed RA.

Aval - the number of available vehicles not assigned to a pre-printed RA.

Ready Line - the difference between the reservations (Gold and non-gold) and the allocated and available vehicles.

Dirty - The vehicles in a lot that are in a status other than A, H, or O.

Other - The rest of the vehicles for that location that are in a status other than O (on rent), a S type (sale), or a N type (not available).

Reservations:

If a there is a Lot assigned to the user's drawer, the

Lot XX Clean - Number of units in an available type status at the first off-site lot. In the illustration above, this is Lot 01.

Lot YY Clean - Number of units in an available type status at the second off-site lot. In the illustration above, this is Lot 02.

Lot XX Dirty - Number of units in an unavailable type status at the first off-site lot. In the illustration above, this is Lot 01.

Lot YY Dirty - Number of units in an unavailable type status at the second off-site lot. In the illustration above, this is Lot 02.

Other Dirty - Number of units in an unavailable type status at the any other off-site lots not currently displayed.

Function Keys:

F1 - use to change the drawer number.

F2 - use to change the reporting period.

F3 - use to extend the reporting period so that it includes 24 hrs after the current time.

Using any of these function keys will manually restart the display.