A site contractor priced what a broken machine really costs — idle crew, blown schedule, rush repairs — and cut it by tracking service history in the field.
For Halstead, downtime isn't one machine sitting idle — it's a four-person crew standing around a dead skid steer at $65/hour each, plus a schedule that slips into the next job.
Equipment moved between sites with no service history following it. The same hydraulic leak got “fixed” three times because nobody knew it was recurring.
Preventive service — filters, greasing, hydraulic checks — happened whenever someone remembered, which on a busy season meant rarely.
Each machine's QR label ties to one record no matter which job it's on. Scan it and the full repair history is right there in the field.
When the generator leaked again, the operator scanned it and tapped “Hydraulic leak.” The office saw it immediately — and saw it wasn't the first time.
Greasing, filter and hydraulic PMs trigger on logged engine hours, so a machine that worked doubles gets serviced twice as often — automatically.
By pricing idle-crew time against their labor rate, the owner could finally justify retiring a machine that looked cheap to keep but was quietly bleeding the schedule.
The login-free scan a tech sees
“A machine that breaks doesn't just cost the repair — it costs four guys standing around and a job that runs long. Once I could see that number, the decisions made themselves.”
Start free, label your first machines before lunch, and see your own numbers instead of ours.