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Beyond Turbo Dispatch
Turbo Exchange is a replacement for the Turbo Dispatch service. Turbo Dispatch revolutionised the towing industry in 1995, by allowing electronic communication between Vehicle Breakdown Recovery clubs, and their agents around the UK.
The Turbo Dispatch system was launched using Mobitex technology which was tried and trusted, and the best available in the UK at the time. This was before the Internet took hold, and the mobile phone operators had a viable solution. However it had it's limitations, which later became a hindrance to future software development.
One of the original team, helping to set up the network, had the foresight to realise that Mobitex would not be around forever, and believed the use of Internet technology would be a better alternative. A new company was formed, and a new network system was developed using the latest technology, fixing many of the shortcomings of the original system. After several years, this became Turbo Exchange which started it's life distributing GPS tracking data from 2008.
