Simple Control: Managing Your Projects Can be a Simple, Satisfying Effort

Project management through the use of software is now beginning to become more user-friendly. Construction project management software products, like those offered by HCSS, are allowing companies to use high-tech software without the hassle of the software having unusual qualifications for the user.

Read full story from Grading and Excavation Contractor, pp. 22-27

HCSS Software for Heavy and Highway: A Closer Look

HCSS has been creating software for the heavy, highway, infrastructure, and utility sectors since the mid-80s. Started by Mike Rydin, president and CEO, the company has created several great software packages, including The Dispatcher.

Read full story from Construction Software Review

Crime Stoppers: Contractors adopt multiple strategies to control jobsite equipment theft and improve recovery rates

Each year, millions of dollars in equipment are stolen, and less than 7% of those equipment are ever recovered. But contractors are now making a bigger effort to fight back. From common safeguards to high-tech solutions, such as The Dispatcher, they’re taking measures to prevent theft and improve recovery rates.

Read full story from Constructor (AGC of America)

Heavy Hitter: Estimating Software Gives Users an Edge when Bidding Jobs

Software for field management, estimating, and bidding is becoming more and more useful for companies trying to gain an edge when bidding jobs and running their operations. HCSS software products, such as The Dispatcher, save companies time, money, and frustration in their day-to-day activities.

Read full story from Constructor (AGC of America)

Telematics

With issues like theft and underreporting, companies are turning to GPS systems to keep an eye on their fleet activity and location. Software products, like The Dispatcher, allow companies to schedule where their equipment will be days, weeks, even months in advance, while also monitoring and ensuring good productivity within the fleet through the use of GPS technology.

Read full story from Grading and Excavation Contractor

Equipment Management Software

“Equipment management software, such as The Dispatcher by Houston-based HCSS, makes easy work out of what otherwise can be a management nightmare. With information stored in and maintained by the software, contractors can make informed decisions about equipment purchases and rentals, and maintenance and repair schedules. It also has theft deterrence capability and can help a contractor keep more profit in his pocket.”

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Telemetrics Track Heavy Equipment

“How does your firm track its equipment and other resources? Does someone use a dry-erase board, slotting individual pieces of equipment and/or employees—each one represented by a card—into columns that represent the jobs your crews are on? There may be an easier way—technology that enables contractors to know exactly where their equipment is and what it’s doing at all hours of the day.”

Read full story from On-Site Magazine, p. 40

New Small Tools Feature Saves Contractors Time, Money

“HCSS has launched a Small Tools feature for The Dispatcher Resource Management Software that enables construction companies to track the entire inventory of small tools assigned to its employees. The new feature gives a contractor tighter control over its tools, thus reducing costs associated with loss or damage.”

Read full story from CTS Guides

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HCSS: Creating Knowledge Workers

“The Dispatcher is a product that Constructech editors believe will continue to gain notoriety as the push for business intelligence continues within the construction industry. Companies are now demanding this type of technology to help them gain valuable insight into how workers and assets can be better used across job portfolios.”

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Jobsite Software Helps Keep Track of Employees and Equipment

“A construction jobsite is a collection of many moving parts, and the project superintendent has to know where each of them is located. Until now, most of the technology available to accomplish this task has been a dry-erase or magnet board located in the jobsite trailer. HCSS Dispatcher application software with its new GPS unit changes that.”

Read full story from Constuctor (AGC of America)

Lost and Found: Software Helps Contractors Keep Track of Equipment

Silver Star Construction Co. explains what a difference The Dispatcher has made in tracking both big equipment and smaller attachments.

Read full story from Roads & Bridges


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