Operated Equipment / Operated Plant / Wet Rental
The art of renting your machines out with operators or drivers attached, certainly has some intriguing names! Wet Rental in Australia, Operated Plant in the UK and Operated Equipment elsewhere. Whatever the terminology, Operated Equipment requires specialized rental equipment software functionality and special reporting capabilities.
With certain areas of the rental industry such as mobile cranes, concrete pumping, larger aerial equipment sending out operators frequently, and certain geographical areas such as India and the Far East heavily dependent on operated equipment to combat limited trained operator availability, it is now critical that your software should provide an integrated solution for Operated Equipment.
At rentalresult we’ve been working with the operated equipment industry for years, with companies such as Ainscough Crane Hire, Pochins Concrete Pumping and King Lifting. We’ve developed a number of unique business processes which complement operated equipment requirements. These include:
* A dedicated operated equipment control center allowing you to allocate contracts, operators and assets in a single action and providing visibility over asset and operator availability from day to day.
* Specialized charging and billing options allowing you to combine rental with timesheet information.
* Ability to enter timesheet data against assets and contracts and pass through to HR functions for payroll at the same time as determining customer charges.
* Industry standard safety rules such as mandatory appointed person on site information for Crane Rental.
* The ability to hold operator qualifications and prevent unqualified operators being assigned to assets on contracts.
* The ability to manage sub-rentals of both assets and operators when availability issues are raised.
* The ability to transfer contracts between branches with a single click to take the job to the asset as appropriate.
* The ability to manage substitutions and alternative items. For example if you send a 40 ton crane to act as a 30 ton, the system keeps track of the substitution, the loss in revenue on the 40 ton and the real availability picture at the point when the deal was agreed.
* The ability to combine standard rental with operated rental, for example if you are sending out traffic management equipment alongside a crane.
You can read the Case Study on Ainscough Crane Hire on our website for more information on how rentalresult software can work with an Operated Equipment Rental business.
There is an operated equipment rental entry on Wikipedia to help expand the understanding of the rental industry in general, we’d invite anyone who can offer more information to update this article.
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