Call off rentals the day work ends

Any rental company, one map. A rented machine reaches Gytix one of two ways. If the rental company or the manufacturer will share the machine’s telematics feed with you, it connects with no hardware. If not, your crew bolts or magnets a B1 battery tracker on when the machine arrives and takes it off when it leaves. Either way the machine sits on the same map, inside the same job geofences, as the ones you own.

What counts as idle. Where a rented machine reports engine hours, idle means no engine hours on a working day. A B1 cannot read the engine, so for those machines idle means no movement on the job. You set the limit per job, often two or three working days, and the reminder goes to the superintendent and whoever calls off rentals.

Call-offs that stick. Each rental carries a planned call-off date, and the job gets a reminder two working days before it. When the owned machine a rental covers frees up, that rental is flagged the same day. Whoever calls the machine off records the date and the rental company’s call-off number, and the machine leaves the job board once pickup is confirmed. That record settles most billing questions later.

Cost per job. Day, week and four-week rates come from the contract, and cost builds against the job the machine sits on, by geofence. Where engine hours report, you also see hours against the contract’s shift allowance, which is where overtime charges start, so the superintendent sees them coming. Whether to keep renting or buy is a separate question, worked through in rent or own.