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Letter to the Editor
Monday February 10
R. L. Polk & Co. Introduces Vehicle Identification Tool For Auto Insurance Industry
R. L. Polk & Co. has launched Polk CVINA (Complete Vehicle Identification Number Analysis), its latest automotive information solutions product. Polk CVINA is designed to provide the automotive insurance industry with a fast and efficient VIN analysis tool and insurance rating solution for commercial trucks, trailers and passenger vehicles. Polk CVINA also verifies and corrects VINs to ensure that accurate premiums are assigned.This new Polk product features precision VIN processing with detailed vehicle descriptive information to help companies build their databases with the most accurate specifications available. With Polk CVINA, insurance companies are able to verify VIN accuracy, validate the entire 17-digit VIN including the check digit, correct VIN errors, generate standard vehicle descriptions, return full spellings of vehicle make and series names, and obtain more than 20 other elements of vehicle data.
The system also offers full correction of the VIN, heavy truck and commercial trailer information, historical data back to 1981, including Manufacturers Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP), exact Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) and Gross Combined Weight (GCW) dating back to 1992.
"The Polk CVINA system offers unsurpassed VIN data accuracy," said Bill Weber, vice president of Polk's Software Services group. "CVINA is the most powerful and revolutionary VIN editing software in the industry and underscores Polk's commitment to provide our customers with the most accurate vehicle identification numbers, the most complete vehicle information descriptions and the largest amount of historical data."
Polk CVINA can be used as a stand-alone product or it can be integrated into virtually any system. It is available in multiple platforms including batch and CICS for mainframe computers, PC-based systems and as an ASCII text flat file.
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