Resource tab details - Miscellaneous Equipment

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The Miscellanous Equipment (Misc Equip) Tab displays a list of summary information about all active pieces of miscellaneous equipment and their current dispatch activity. The columns include pertinent information from the equipment’s profile, as configured in the Misc Equipment Profiles program.

For more information on General Color Codes, see the Color Code Information section.

Assign Misc Equipment to a Trip

In most cases a double-click on a field in the misc. equipment grid will assign the equipment to a the selected Trip. If there are multiple legs on the trip, the power unit will be assigned by default to all legs subsequent to the leg currently selected in the Trip grid.

Misc. Equipment that has a current status of unavailable cannot be assigned to trips.

Update Fields

In a few cases the information in a field can be modified using a double-click in those fields, as follows:

ETA Zone / ETA Location / ETA Date / Planned Time Available: displays the ETA / PTA Adjustments window to make manual adjustments to the resources' Estimated Time of Arrival and Planned Time Available, as follows:

New ETA Zone: select the search button to select the zone the resource is expected to be in at the time entered in the ETA Date field.
New ETA Date: displays the calendar to provide Estimated Time of Arrival date selection.
New PTA Date: displays the calendar to provide Planned Time Available selection.

The ETA Zone, Location, Date and PTA fields are also updated automatically by activity in the Trip grid, and manual changes will be overwritten if trip activity occurs for this resource.

In/Out Gate Status

This field shows if the equipment has been In-Gated or Out-Gated from the Container Depot.

Class

Classing is a method of grouping equipment together based on common factor. In your business, classing equipment can help you in assigning equipment to trips based on class, it can also help in pricing and rating and deciding driver pay as well. Equipment classes are defined in quipment Class Codes tab of the Codes Maintenance Program. For the selected Miscellaneous Equipment you can select a class that is already defined in Codes Maintenance.

Context Menu

Full Screen

The Full Screen option will enlarge the selected grid so that it fills the whole screen which allows you to view many more records and columns than in the normal view. To return to the normal view, right mouse click and de-select the Full Screen option. While in Full Screen mode, you can switch from grid to grid by selecting the right and left arrow buttons at the bottom of the window.

Reposition/Status Change

This option allows the user to Reposition resources, Change Status of selected resources or do both. Need more details?

Location History

The Locations History Report is a summary report of the selected equipments' dispatch activity for the period selected.

For more information about report functions see the Crystal Reports Reference.

Find Equipment Near

The Find Near option allows you to search for any driver, power unit, trailer, miscellaneous equipment, freight bill, or trip that is within a specified distance of the desired zone.

Set/Clear Filter

The Set Filter option supports the ability to create and apply a filter to any grid, regardless of the grid you were in when you opened the window.

Anchored Columns

To keep the columns on the far left of the grid from disappearing when you scroll the grid to the right, use the Anchored Columns menu option. You will be prompted to enter the number of columns you wish to anchor. The anchored columns will appear with a grey background and when you scroll the grid to the right, these columns will still be displayed.

Trip View

The Trip View windowprovides very detailed information about a trip. When this option is invoked the trip on which the driver or equipment is currently active will be displayed. If the driver or equipment is currently available, or is assigned to a trip that is not yet active, the trip on which the driver or equipment was last active will be displayed.

At the top of the hierarchy is the 'Trip number'.

Under the 'Trip Number' is each 'Trip Leg'.

Under the 'Trip Legs' is the 'Driver', Resources and Freight Bill(s) assigned to the leg.

Under each 'Driver' and Resource their location history (for the Trip) and their status history (for the Trip).

Under the Freight Bill is a Freight Bill summary and the Freight Bill status history (for the Trip).

Each level of the hierarchy can be collapsed or expanded by double clicking on the level above. The 'Expand' button at the bottom of the screen will expand all collapsed levels, while the 'Collapse' button at the bottom of the screen will collapse all expanded levels.

New

This feature will launch the Misc Equipment Profile program to add a new power unit.

View Misc. Equip Profile

Selecting this option launches the Misc Equipment Profile program to view the equipment profile details.

View Owner’s Profile

Selecting this option allows the user to view the profile of the selected power unit in Customer and Vendor Profiles program.

Status Change

You can change a equipments' status (available/unavailable) on the Resource Change Status window. The status codes defined with the code behavior of "Availability" and "Unavailability" as configured in the Codes Maintenance program are available for selection.

Misc. Equipment that has a current status of 'Unavailable' cannot be assigned to trips.

Special Events

The Special Events menu option displays all special events in the Special Events window , including those assigned to the equipment in the Special Events program and those created here.

Using the Application Configurator program, 'SE Warning Level' setting you can configure what level provides warnings for Special Events that are displayed when the equipment is assigned to a trip.

Attach / Open Related Files…

Selecting this option will open the Attach / Open Related Files window.

Copy

Select this option to copy the text from within the selected field.

Navigate

The Navigate option contains the standard TruckMate Navigation Bar, used to browse the records within this Grid.

If you do not see the Misc. Equipment Tab, you may have to access the 'View Menu' and enable it (or do so using the Toolbar icon).