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Setup: Equipment Units

Go to Setup | Equipment/Trucks | Equipment | Equipment Unit Numbers from the Main Menu.

Tab 1:  Equipment

The grid allows you to enter a code and full description for each piece of equipment.  You also select one of your pre-defined equipment types (see Setup | Equipment/Trucks | Equipment | Equipment Types).  You also enter the owner of the equipment unit.  If the equipment is owned by your company, select your company;  otherwise select the third-party owner of the equipment.  If the third-party owner is not on the selection list you will need to enter it first  -- go to Setup | Vendors in order to set up your list of third-party owners and other vendors.

If the equipment is third-party equipment and is operated by your employees and you need to pay an hourly rental charge, you should click on the checkbox 'Pay Rental'.  (A support representative can enable this field if it is not visible in your grid.)

Tab 2:  Equipment Activities

The equipment activities tab allows you to assign activities to specific equipment units.  This is an optional feature of The Logger's Edge that allows you to set a default activity to an equipment unit.  The value of assigning activities to equipment units is that when you are entering equipment units on time slips or on loads, the associated activity entry will be pre-selected to the activity assigned to the equipment unit.  Of course you can always change the default entry on the time slip if the equipment is actually performing another activity.