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Friday, January 27, 2012

Texas Hide & Seek

Texas Hide & Seek
"Any o' you boys seen a backhoe 'round here?"
If you're playing Hide & Seek with your equipment, you've already lost.
If you're playing Hide & Seek with your equipment, you've already lost.
 
I am a firm believer in the idea that you can't fully appreciate what it takes to do something, until you've tried to do it yourself.  So, just to make my life more interesting (and to help finish migrating some equipment over to our system), I got to spend some time in the field with one of our clients' heavy machinery technicians last week.
 
(Talk about "steppin' in it"...)

First Things First:

As in most industries, we get caught up in "the next great thing."  In the location industry, we hear about cutting fuel-costs; excessive idling; improving driver safety; getting engine data from the electronic control systems; etc.  What we sometimes forget is why this is called the "location" industry.  It is all too easy to take finding a piece of equipment for granted until you lose the ability to find it.  As my job-site guide pointed out:  "It's a lot harder to fix 'em when you don't know where they are."

Well, that's just what happened.