Field

Description

Equipment Type Description

Enter descriptions to classify equipment by (up to 20 characters).  The records entered here will appear as menu options when managing vehicle records within Equipment Setup.

Examples:

Crates

Van

Trailer

Tractor

Pack Van

IMPORTANT: A type of “Van” is required to associate trailers to interstate shipments.

Item Code

Select an Item Code to associate the equipment record to a revenue item used to generate transactions in Revenue Entry.  See Item Code Setup for more information.

Average Cost

Provide the average cost for items associated to a local service for determining job costing expenses (in dollar and cents). See for Job Costing and Job Costing Setup and Administration more information.

Checking this option instructs the application to dispatch equipment of this type by a quantity factor instead of on an hourly basis. Leave this option unchecked to dispatch equipment based on hourly assignments.

When checked, the Quantity field is available within Reserve Equipment screen. The Quantity field defaults to what is set for the particular item within Equipment Request; the amount set as the default is also applied when a resource is auto-assigned.