Tracking fuel and lube use makes projects more productive: hand-held computers record each machine's consumption, and they pay for themselves in five months. (Great Managers).

From: Construction Equipment | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Question: Spending $1.6 million on an electronic system just to keep track of how many gallons of fuel and oil are pumped into every machine in a fleet seems like management overkill. What's the payoff?

Answer: "A paperless system for recording where our fuel goes and accurately collecting hour information from equipment gives me a good historical database that we can use to estimate costs on future projects," says Mike Monnot, equipment director at Zachry Construction. "I found that with an active, online system that tells me immediately when we get spikes in fuel ...

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