While a decade or two ago construction, mining, site preparation, and earth-moving contractors may still have had the luxury of maintaining their equipment fleet at centralized locations, supplemented with handheld greasers or cans of oil onsite, that's no longer true today. As bids in the business are now highly competitive and margins low, especially in today's soft economy, successful managers must track work cycle times as never before. In most cases, that means accurately estimating how much dirt each operator will move with each machine per day, based on trips from a dig site to say, a dump truck. Any interruption of the work cycle, for example a hydraulic hose break in a front-end loader, could cost thousands of dollars per hour per incident. For this reason, efficient, onsite preventive maintenance and repair-in the form of lube, fuel, water, and maintenance trucks-is now essential.
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