Capture enough information at enquiry stage
Customer, contact, site, service requirement and early commercial context should be usable later rather than written in a format that operations cannot inherit.
How to manage crane hire jobs
How should a crane hire job move from enquiry to invoice?
A strong crane hire workflow should preserve the same commercial and operational context as responsibility passes from sales to planning, delivery and finance. The objective is not more administration; it is fewer opportunities for the job to be rebuilt differently at each stage.
Operational signalBuyer guide
The live TDH3 platform is designed around this connected enquiry-to-payment flow, with package differences for transport, lift planning, supplier, margin and higher-scale operational capabilities.
Practical guide
Look at the workflow before you look at the software.
The right system should remove repeated handovers and give the people doing the work a clearer shared record.
Control quote revisions and acceptance
The team delivering the work needs to know what was actually agreed. Revision and acceptance history should survive the handover into operations.
Plan from the live job
Dates, visits, cranes, vehicles, people, equipment and readiness should be attached to the operational job rather than re-created in a separate planner.
Close the loop after delivery
Completion evidence, supplier commitments, costs, invoicing, payments and reporting should flow from the job so finance is not reconstructing what happened after the event.
Illustrative operational example
Follow one job through the handovers.
A realistic flow might be enquiry → quote revision → customer acceptance → live job → planned visit → crane, vehicle and people allocation → lifting or transport evidence → completion → costs and invoice. The fewer times that chain has to be rebuilt manually, the easier it is to keep one operational truth.
Before you choose
Questions to put to any system.
Can quote revisions and acceptance be traced?
Ask for a clear demonstration using a realistic workflow rather than relying on a feature-list promise.
Can the planner see the current job and resource context?
Ask for a clear demonstration using a realistic workflow rather than relying on a feature-list promise.
Can transport and compliance evidence attach to the same work?
Ask for a clear demonstration using a realistic workflow rather than relying on a feature-list promise.
Can finance trace an invoice back to the operational job?
Ask for a clear demonstration using a realistic workflow rather than relying on a feature-list promise.
Relevant TDH3 pages
Go deeper on the part of the operation that matters.
Current live product
The live TDH3 platform is purpose-built for crane hire, lifting, HIAB, plant and specialist transport.
It is not being presented as a generic system for every industry. Explore the current platform and decide whether its connected operational model fits your business.