Five Reasons to use Toro myTurf Fleet Management Software

Does your company have stacks of thick binders for every model and machine in your fleet? How about antiquated spreadsheets to keep track of hours, parts, and maintenance costs? These fleet management tools are cumbersome and inefficient at best. Fortunately, the Toro myTurf Fleet Management software provides a better solution if you care about your fleet, your staff’s welfare and it’s maintenance you should read this Guide to Winning a Truck Accident Lawsuit in case the worst happens to your drivers or check out fleetsinsurance.com. Here are just five reasons use to the Toro myTurf Feet Management tool in your business.

Track Operating Hours

Tracking operating hours on every piece of equipment in your fleet probably takes hours of transposing figures each week. Toro’s myTurf system allows you to ditch the whiteboards, tags, and clipboards in favor of a wireless system that does all of this work in the background. The wireless hour meter is simple to install and will automatically transmit the current operating hours. Once installed, the system will transmit operating hour data when it is within 250 feet of the base station with a clear line of sight. The system also works with non-Toro equipment as long as there is 12 VDC power available. All of this information can then be viewed on the myTurf system electronic white board with just the click of a mouse.

Order Parts Online Easily

The myTurf system allows you to order Toro Genuine Parts online for any piece of equipment in your fleet, directly from your Toro Distributor. You’ll no longer have to wait for business hours to arrive or look up part numbers in a catalog. Ordering can take place 24 hours a day and the interactive function in the system allows you to find parts by viewing diagrams and clicking on the desired item. The system will tell you both the cost of the part and its availability when you place your order. You can also save frequently ordered parts for quick re-ordering in the future. If purchases needed to be internally approved, you can email a shopping list to a manager or easily pull up your order history.

Efficiently Create and Manage Work Orders

Whether your equipment fleet is large or small, having machinery out of service for maintenance or repairs is costly. Toro understands this and has addressed these concerns with its myTurf Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) tools within the myTurf system. The ability to track and manage work orders is one of the functions that is provided, and it makes this task easier than ever. Work orders can be generated with the click of a button for such things as maintenance tasks, parts ordering, assigning technicians to jobs, and inventory control. The system allows you to open, close, and print work orders as needed.

Track Maintenance Costs

One objective of effective fleet management is to maximize the return on a company’s fleet equipment. This means that equipment needs to be properly maintained and replaced when necessary to provide the best value to the company. The myTurf system allows you to track maintenance costs on each piece of equipment, run reports on the TCO for that machine, and justify replacement decisions when the time is right. For your fleet as a whole, you can review reports of costs by type and compare those costs to prior periods to track improvement.

Track Equipment

Keeping track of equipment in a fleet can be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Many trucking companies use Vistracks ELD devices as seen here as they record driving hours making drivers have their breaks and keeping them safe. When there is equipment out for maintenance or repairs or equipment shared between departments, this becomes nearly a full-time job. The myTurf system allows you to organize your equipment in whatever manner makes the most sense, even dividing up the fleet into sub-fleets. You can also sort your equipment by category, such as make and model, or by the machinery that is Toro brand versus non-Toro equipment. With this flexible equipment tracking function, you can print out your fleet asset report at any time and find out any information about a particular piece of equipment with the click of a button.

The Toro myTurf Fleet Management system is a collection of web-based tools that makes administering your fleet program simple. No software is required for the system, only a high-speed internet connection. This means that myTurf can be used from any device with web access. Set up tasks are minimized for new customers, and Toro can even help load your fleet, including non-Toro equipment. Your company’s data is stored on a secure offsite server with nightly backups, so you never risk losing important data. Companies can restrict access to information through secure passwords, and the Toro National Support Network offers clients online and telephone system support.