Playbook

Clue's Playbook for Equipment Managers

Our playbook provides equipment managers with practical strategies to eliminate downtime, cut maintenance costs, and improve safety using real-time data and predictive technology. It focuses on tracking equipment usage, scheduling preventive maintenance, and optimizing fleet performance to ensure equipment is always ready when needed.

Table of Contents

Utilization

  • Utilization is how you make money

  • Charge correctly for machine underutilization

  • Ask "until when" for every asset request

  • Automate rental reports to cut costs

  • Try live production tracking

Technology

  • Understand OEM telematics

  • Make the most of free telematics offers

  • You don't need GPS on every unit

  • Tailor the right tracker for each asset class

  • Optimize fueling with telematics data

  • Centralize your rental management

  • Use geofences to assign assets to jobs

Maintenance

  • Record every breakdown

  • Track your reliability

  • Ask "until when" for every asset request

  • Focus on your #1 fault code

  • Get the operators involved

  • Classify work orders accurately

  • Recruit your lowboy drivers

  • Leverage lube truck drivers to handle basic maintenance

  • Track 'glass' related issues

Personal Growth

  • Learn to speak the CFO's language

  • Benchmark yourself

  • Never stop learning

Budgets and Costs

  • 4 revenue numbers to check every month

  • Use churn charts for capex planning

  • Focus on what you can control

  • Measure idling in dollars, not just percentages

  • Track fuel efficiency

  • Know the true impact of idling on capex

  • Monitor equipment operating on weekends

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