Multi-asset jobs

What it’s for — Craneye doesn’t just track cranes. Every physical machine in your fleet is an asset, and a job can carry any mix of asset types — a crane, a trailer, a tractor head, dollies, an SPMT module, a support vehicle. Every type goes through the same job, the same safety gate, and the same billing.

When you’d use it — any time a job needs more than “a crane”: a heavy transport move on a trailer, a convoy with an escort vehicle, or simply a job where you want everything that’s going out, tracked in one place.

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Assign any machine from the job’s Cranes tab — the safety gate checks each one before it goes on the job.

Asset types

Each machine in Fleet has an asset type — crane and trailer today, with tractor heads, dollies, SPMT modules and support vehicles also supported. Types are data-driven: each one defines its own attributes (the fields you fill in for it) and its own certificate requirements, so a trailer’s paperwork isn’t measured against a crane’s rules.

Still called "Cranes" in places

The job tab you assign machines from is still labelled Cranes in the web app, and the mobile daily log calls a machine a Machine. Don’t be thrown by the name — both handle every asset type.

How to put any machine on a job

1. Open the job and go to the Cranes tab.

2. Pick a Machine — any asset type — set the mobilise/demob dates and, optionally, an agreed day rate.

3. Click Assign machine. Craneye runs the safety gate for that asset type’s own certificate rules.

The gate behaves the same way for every type:

• Yellow warnings (you can still assign — click Assign anyway): the machine is already booked on another job, it’s missing an optional document, or it simply has no certificates on record yet.
• Red blocks: an expired or missing required statutory certificate. You need a Manager to override, with a typed reason of at least 20 characters. The override is written to an immutable Dispatch overrides panel on the job — who, when, which rule, and why.

One hard rule applies regardless of warnings or overrides: a machine can never hold two overlapping dated assignments. Craneye rejects the second booking outright rather than warning about it.

Good to know

Assigning crew works differently. A person who’s already on another job only gets a warning, never a block — people can legitimately work more than one job, so it’s the office’s call.

Machines that arrive from a quote

When a quote converts to a job, its machines come across as proposed. A proposed machine doesn’t bill, doesn’t block dates on other bookings, and doesn’t show up on the dispatch board or the map — it’s a placeholder until someone actively confirms it, which runs the same safety gate as a fresh assignment. See Jobs for where quotes turn into jobs.

Type-aware on the mobile app

The field app adapts its daily log to the asset type on the job. On a trailer job, the crew’s daily log:

• auto-selects the trailer as the machine,
• hides crane-only fields like engine hours and shift hours — a trailer’s time comes from its route trip, not a manual entry,
• shows a Start route trip control instead of the crane transit controls.

See Trailer route trips for the driver side of that.

Common questions

• Can a job have a mix of asset types? Yes — a single job can carry a crane and a trailer and a support vehicle, each with its own dates, rate, and certificate checks.
• Do trailers need the same certificates as cranes? No. Each asset type has its own certificate requirements, set up on the compliance matrix — a trailer isn’t checked against crane-only rules like load test certs.
• A proposed machine from a quote isn’t showing on the map. Is that a bug? No — proposed machines are intentionally invisible to billing, the board, and the map until confirmed.

Related

Jobs Where machines and crew get assigned to a job.

Dispatch & the safety gate The gate explained in full.

Dispatch units (convoys) When several machines travel together as one convoy.

The field app (crew) How crew work a job on site, including trailer jobs.