Real-world lessons on heavy equipment maintenance, CMMS adoption, preventive maintenance scheduling, and the operational decisions that keep fleets running. Written from the shop floor, not from a vendor brochure.
Your equipment doesn't just sit on a jobsite — it earns. Cost per hour tells you exactly how much it costs to generate that revenue, and getting it wrong means you're bleeding money on every bid.
Every contractor charges its own projects for its own iron. If that internal rate isn't built from real cost per hour, the fleet quietly under-recovers, and the shortfall hides in overhead where nobody can see it.
If your shop rate doesn't reflect the true cost of running your maintenance operation, you're not fully allocating spend to your equipment — and that leftover becomes an overhead black hole nobody can explain.
Every machine has a point where it costs less per hour than it ever will again. Most fleets trade too early or run right past it, because nobody is drawing the cost curve that shows where that point is.
Most maintenance software was built for a factory floor or a truck fleet, and heavy equipment shops end up working around it. Here's how Tenmil compares with Fiix, eMaint, MaintainX, Fleetio, Tenna and Clue on the workflows that decide whether your data is right.
Doing preventive maintenance early wastes money. Doing it late accelerates wear. Both cost you more than doing it on time — and most fleets don't realize how much the gap is costing them.
Not all CMMS platforms are created equal. Some connect your data and turn it into decisions. Others just store it. If yours only gives back what you put in, you've got an expensive filing cabinet.
