Setting Up Equipment

When you have set up your equipment types, you can set up the individual pieces of equipment. Equipment is the trucks, trailers, vans or other equipment your workers travel in.

Equipment is the individual pieces of equipment your workers use every day. You can associate pieces of equipment together, such as associating a tractor and trailer, and then have both pieces automatically assigned to a route together. You can also associate a worker with a piece of equipment, and have that worker automatically assigned to the route with the equipment. Before creating equipment, you must have created the equipment types.

1. Select the Welcome to Maintenance arrow and scroll to Equipment. The Equipment list opens.
2. To add a piece of equipment, select the Add Equipment button. 
3. Enter an ID for the equipment. Each piece of equipment must have a unique ID. The ID can be up to 32 characters long and cannot contain spaces. You must enter an ID.
   
   
    
4. If the piece of equipment is generally available for use, make sure Active is checked. If this box is not checked, the piece of equipment will not be available to assign to a route and it will be excluded from scorecards. Inactive equipment will appear with their IDs crossed out in the list of equipment in Maintenance. You can set a piece of equipment as inactive if, for example, it is being repaired or it is temporarily unavailable for any other reason.
5. If the worker is able to change the height, weight, or length of the equipment type from the navigation device, check Remote Config.
   Notes: Changing these attributes of the equipment type can change the route that the navigation system plans for the driver. 
   When you are deciding whether or not to allow remote configuration, keep in mind that these settings will determine the path that Omnitracs Navigation suggests to the driver.
6. Enter a Description for the equipment. The description can help identify the equipment. The description can be up to 255 characters long and can contain spaces.
7. Select the Equipment Type arrow and choose the proper type of equipment. You must choose an equipment type. The equipment type defines the cost and capacity for the equipment.
8. In the Telematics Device box, begin entering the name of the Telematics device in the Telematics Device field. Select the device that is installed in the piece of equipment when it appears in the list. 
9. To select other regions that can see the equipment, select the Shared By Regions tab. On the Shared By Regions page you can select the regions that the equipment can be shared with. The equipment is shared with the current region context by default.
   
   If you want to share the equipment with a region(s) other than the one you are working in, select the other region(s) from the list. The list will include every region that you are assigned to, not just the region you are currently working in. Verify that every region you want to share the equipment to is checked.
   
   To share the equipment with all existing regions, check Shared to All Regions.
10. Click the [Save] button.