Plant and skip hire
Hire out your plant and skips,
from the same place as the jobs.
Mini diggers, skid steer loaders and tracked dumpers, each with its own page: where it is right now, when it is back, what it hires out at and whether it pays its way. Every kind of skip gets a page too. Book a hire like any other job and the delivery and collection go straight on the schedule.
MD1
Mini digger
One page
For every machine
And for each kind of skip
Day, week
Or with an operator
Priced from your price list
No doubles
One machine, one hire
Booked days cannot be booked again
Pays its way?
Hire against costs
Per machine, per kind of skip
What you can hire out
The machines and skips you already own.
Each one is drawn in your own paint colours, so the office knows it at a glance.
Mini diggers
Skid steer loaders
Tracked dumpers
Skips
Where it is right now
In the yard or out on hire, who has it and when it is back. No more ringing round to find the dumper.
Never booked twice
Every hire for a machine sits on its page. A machine already booked on a day cannot be booked for that day again.
Delivery and collection on the schedule
A hire is a job. Its delivery and its collection go on the schedule like any skip delivery, on the vehicle you choose.
Self-drive or with an operator
Hire the machine out on its own, or send one of your team with it and charge your day rate with an operator.
A page for each kind of skip
Such as 8 yard skips: how many you have and where they all are, with the costs of the whole kind in one place.
Owned, on finance or hired in
Say how each machine is paid for, so the finance payment or the rate you pay another firm counts against what it earns.
Priced for you
Set your rates once. Every hire prices itself.
On your price list, put a day, weekend and week rate against each kind of machine, plus a day rate with an operator and your delivery and collection charges. When you book a hire the price is worked out for you, and you can still change any line.
Cheapest for the customer
A hire is charged whichever way comes out cheaper, so five days is charged as a week when the week is cheaper.
Past a week
Each extra day is charged at a fifth of the week rate.
Every line can be changed
The worked-out price is where you start, not where you have to stop.
Does it pay its way
See what each machine earns against what it costs.
Say whether it is owned, on finance or hired in from another plant firm, and log repairs, services and other costs as they come. Hire charged sits beside costs for every machine and every kind of skip, so you know what to keep, sell or buy more of.
MD1 Mini digger, last 12 months
£9,860
Hire charged
£5,125
Costs
£4,735
Left after costs
From a whiteboard in the yard to one screen.
Before, the whiteboard and a diary
After, LoadSnap
Nobody is sure where all the skips are.
Each kind of skip has a page with how many you have and where they all are.
The digger gets promised to two customers for the same Tuesday.
A machine booked on a day cannot be picked for that day again.
Hire prices are worked out by whoever answers the phone.
Every hire is priced from your own rates, whichever way is cheaper for the customer.
Nobody knows if the dumper earns more than it costs.
Hire charged and costs sit side by side on its page.
Questions
Plant and skip hire, answered.
01Do I need separate plant hire software?
02What plant can I hire out?
03How is a hire priced?
04Can the same machine be booked twice?
05Can I send an operator with a machine?
06What if I hire the machine in from someone else?
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