
The excavator is stopped and the site clock is still running. Take the two in the morning callout from a gate with no street number, name a real time, and bill the office rather than the bloke in the cab.
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The operator rings three vans and goes with whoever names an hour first. Your page offers the genuine next slot, the middle of the night included.
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Shutdown changeouts booked a fortnight out, a blown hose at smoko. Drag the day around and everyone already booked is told without a phone call.
Learn moreA hose van does not run a diary, it runs a list of machines that are not working. Called in, rolling, on site, going again: the stage is what the contractor rings to ask about, so it is the first thing the page shows.
Pro scores your open slots by the driving each one adds, so the hour you promise at two in the morning is an hour you can actually make.
Open slots come back in order of how much extra driving each one puts on the van, with the least worst marked, rather than as a flat list.
Availability is what you set. Run a twenty four hour phone and the page offers twenty four hour slots; do not, and it says so plainly.
A roadside tipper hose and a full fleet changeout are not the same length, so the slot offered is the length of the one they picked.
Half your jobs have no street number. Take the gate and the landmark, and keep the pit under the contractor so the next call already knows the way in.
Nearest address plus the detail that actually gets you there: which gate, which pad, who holds the key and whether the track is wet.
One earthmoving company, six pits. Each keeps its own access notes and induction requirements instead of living in one long note.
Set the areas you cover. Anything past them is turned away on the page rather than landing in your run and being sorted out by phone.
No callback, no haggling over a rate at that hour. A time, a machine and directions somebody can actually follow in the dark.
Hose spec, fitting type and pressure rating sit against that unit, so the next call about it is a two-minute stock check instead of a guess.
A second van is only worth having if the callout reaches whoever is actually on. Each fitter has their own hours, and the board honours them.
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The most time-critical work you do, and the reason the van carries stock. Booked at a genuine next slot rather than promised a callback.
A day lost is a crop at risk and the paddock is forty minutes off the highway. The gate directions go on the job, not in your head.
Often needing to be moved before it can be worked on properly. The truck fleet stays one customer with each unit under it.
The pit keeps its own access notes and induction requirements, so the second breakdown there is not a fresh set of directions at dawn.
The planned work. A fleet through a shutdown window with hoses replaced before they let go, booked ahead and quoted as a block.
Short jobs that pay well and fill the gaps between breakdowns, priced by the hour with the callout sitting on its own line.
Hire fleets that cannot let a unit sit. Their yard, their fleet numbers and every hose you have made up for them on one card.
Not mobile, still stopped. Kept as a site under the contractor with its own history rather than dumped in with the machines.
Small gear a long way from anywhere. Worth taking when the run already goes that way, worth declining when it does not.
Three ways to price the same stoppage: get it moving, do the pair that always go together, or go through the machine on the next shutdown.
Hose length, fitting type and pressure rating are their own lines, so a queried figure traces back to the metre it came from.
The failed hose alone beside the pair that always go together, so the contractor picks while the machine is still cold.
The quote leaves your phone before you are back on the highway, which is usually before the office has finished its incident report.
After-hours loading, a longer hose run, ORFS instead of JIC, a second hose off the same block. Ticking one moves the quoted total instead of a re-type. Priced options come with Pro.
When there is no slot left tonight the page still takes the job, so the contractor is talking to you instead of ringing the next van on the list.
Machine, site, what let go and a photo of the fitting in one place, so you can judge the urgency without ringing back from under a loader.
Reply from the record. What you told the site foreman at midnight is still there when the office rings about it the following week.
A changeout that finishes early is a gap you fill from the same screen, and the confirmation does the telling for you.
Excavator has dumped its oil off the boom line and we are stopped in the pit. Anything at all tonight?
Cash and transfers you record by hand cost nothing on any plan. Cards come with Pro, and nothing sits in a Bookables account on the way.
Mark the job paid when the transfer lands. That costs nothing on any plan and it is not quietly going behind a paywall later.
The payment request is emailed to the account contact on the file, which is almost never the person who rang you from the cab.
Every callout for that contractor sits on one card, so an invoice queried in November has the machine and the night it came from under it.
Add your whole team and get booking for nothing.
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If those are hours you work, yes. Availability is yours to set and can run right through the night, so the page offers what you will genuinely attend instead of a nine to five nobody in this trade keeps.
Take the nearest address you can get and put the gate, the pin and the landmark on the job. The site stays under the contractor, so the second breakdown at that pit already has the way in.
Yes. Each machine is its own record under the contractor with its own history, so the hose length, fitting type and pressure rating you made up last time are there when it goes down again.
It can. The payment request is emailed to the account contact you nominate, which is almost never the person standing next to the machine, and the docket left in a ute stops being the reason a job goes unpaid.
Set the areas you cover and leave the rest out. Anything outside them is turned away on the page rather than landing in your run at midnight and being sorted out by phone the next morning.
Yes. A fleet changeout booked a month ahead sits on the same board as tonight’s breakdown, quoted as its own job with a line per machine, so the planned work is not always losing to the urgent.
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