Snow & ice management
The hours you billed. The hours you can prove.
Every push, every salt run, every sidewalk route — logged on the machine as it happens. When a property manager questions the invoice, you have the meter instead of an argument.
Sidewalk tractors · loaders · skid steers · spreaders · light towers
Scope
Two fleets, two rulebooks. This is one of them.
Your plow trucks, tandem dumps and brine tankers are on-road commercial vehicles. They fall under the transport regime — a daily trip inspection in a prescribed format, carried in the cab, feeding your carrier safety rating. This does not produce that report, and you should not buy it for that. Your loaders with pushers, skid steers and sidewalk machines are powered mobile equipment under occupational health and safety law — Alberta's OHS Code s.257 requires a visual inspection before the equipment is operated; BC's OHSR 16.3 requires one before it is first operated on a shift, with defect records kept two years; Quebec's RSST s.272 requires them inspected and maintained to the manufacturer's instructions or equivalent standards. That is the duty this serves — and the same walkaround covers the spreaders and light towers working alongside them.
Why snow is different
The season is short and the disputes are long.
Four months of round-the-clock running, a fleet that doubles with rentals and subs, and an invoice somebody always wants to argue about.
Hours are the invoice
An hour nobody logged is an hour nobody pays for. Operators tap in on the machine they're running and tap out when they're done, so the service meter sits behind every line you bill — per machine, per event.
The fleet doubles for one season
Rented units, seasonal operators, subcontracted machines. Onboarding pre-loads the fleet and builds the checklists, and the crew gets invited by text — a machine keeps its own record for exactly as long as you have it.
3 a.m., cold, wearing gloves
Every screen has one dominant action sized for a gloved hand, and the walkaround is a short list of taps. It runs in the browser on the phone already in the cab — nothing gets bolted to a machine, and nothing new goes in it.
The fleet
What it handles.
The occupational-health-and-safety side of a snow operation. If something you run isn’t here, say so on the demo call — we’d rather tell you no than have you find out in January.
- Sidewalk tractors
- Wheel loaders
- Skid steers & track loaders
- Backhoe loaders
- Motor graders
- Spreaders & brine units (tow-behind & skid-mounted)
- Light towers
Questions
Asked by every contractor so far.
Does it do routing, storm dispatch, or per-push billing?
No. This is machine condition and machine hours — the walkaround, the defects, the meter, the work order. Routing, dispatch and per-push invoicing are a different category of product, and we’d rather say so now than on the demo.
Can it prove we serviced a property?
No — and be careful with anything that says it can from a machine record. An inspection log proves a machine was checked; an hour log proves it ran. Neither proves a lot was cleared or a walk was salted. Ask what your counsel actually wants for a slip-and-fall file and buy that separately.
Half our machines are rented for the season. Is it worth setting up?
That’s the normal case. Onboarding loads the fleet and builds your checklists, the crew is invited by text, and most run their first inspections the same day. A rented machine carries its own inspection and hour record for as long as it’s on your yard.
Set it up before the first storm.
A demo takes half an hour. Come with your machine list and leave with the fleet loaded and the crew invited — most of the setup happens on the call.