Construction & site work
The machine that goes down takes the schedule with it.
A hydraulic hose nobody looked at is half a day of six trades standing around. The walkaround catches it, defects become work orders before the machine is needed, and service comes due on real hours instead of the calendar.
Excavators · dozers · graders · backhoes · rollers · telehandlers
Scope
The equipment, not the truck fleet.
Your dump trucks and float trailers are on-road commercial vehicles. They fall under the transport regime — a daily trip inspection in a prescribed format, carried in the cab — and this does not produce that report. What it covers is the equipment: excavators, dozers, loaders, rollers, telehandlers and the compact iron around them, under the occupational health and safety duty to inspect before the equipment is operated. Alberta's OHS Code s.257 requires a visual inspection before powered mobile equipment is operated; BC's OHSR 16.3 requires one before it is first operated on a shift; Quebec's construction Safety Code, CSTC s.3.10.1, requires equipment on site inspected by an experienced person before its first use there and daily while in use.
Why a job site is different
Machines move, crews change, the schedule doesn’t wait.
The machine is rarely the expensive part. The crew standing around it is.
Downtime costs more than the repair
A defect raised on the walkaround reaches the shop the same morning, as a work order with the machine, the item and the person on it. A machine that goes down is flagged to the people who have to re-plan around it — not discovered at 7 a.m. by the operator who needed it.
Rented iron leaves a record
Rentals come and go by the week. Each machine keeps its own inspection history, hour log and defect trail for exactly as long as it is yours — which is also what you want in hand when the rental company disputes the damage.
Hours, not the calendar
Service intervals on this equipment are hour-based, and hours only mean something if somebody wrote them down. Tap-in and tap-out build the meter from real sessions, so the 250-hour comes due when the machine has actually run 250 hours.
The fleet
What it handles.
Site iron and the compact equipment around it. Asphalt pavers are not on this list — if paving is the core of your fleet, this isn’t the fit yet, and we’d rather tell you now.
- Excavators
- Wheel loaders
- Dozers
- Motor graders
- Backhoe loaders
- Rollers & compactors
- Skid steers & track loaders
- Telehandlers
- Forklifts
- MEWPs (boom & scissor lifts)
- Light towers
- Generators
- Compressors
Questions
Asked on every site walk so far.
We run three sites with three foremen. Does that work?
Yes — machines belong to a site. A manager sees the machines at the sites they govern, an operator sees what they’re assigned, and the owner sees everything. Checklists can be set org-wide or per site.
What does it actually give us if an officer asks?
A signed record per machine — verdicts, timestamps, and the person on every defect — going back as far as you’ve been running it. What the regulation requires is the inspection itself; the record is how you show it happened. We don’t certify anything and we don’t file anything on your behalf.
Our operators aren’t going to fight with an app at 6 a.m.
Nor should they. Every screen has one dominant action sized for gloves, and the walkaround is a short list of taps — OK, action required, or N-A. It runs in the browser on the phone they already carry; there’s no app to install and no training course.
Start with the machines that hurt most when they stop.
Half an hour, your fleet list, and your crew’s phones. You’ll leave the call with the machines loaded and the first inspections ready to run.