RER Innovative Product Awards Honorable Mention: United Rentals Total Control
Category: Technology Enhancements
Product: United Rentals Total Control
Manufacturer: United Rentals
Key Innovation: Fleet management: Total Control helps companies make the most of an equipment fleet to utilize their assets better and cut annual equipment rental costs by one-third.
Manufacturer’s Description: Total Control brings together insight and action to help worksites perform better. The solution provides a single system of record delivering visibility to manage both rented and owned equipment, including excavators, trenchers, backhoe loaders and other pieces of equipment. Total Control helps companies make the most of an equipment fleet to utilize their assets better and cut annual equipment rental costs by one-third.
Total Control enables companies to manage worksites in real time, 24/7 across multiple projects. It allows companies to get a handle on what equipment they have, where it is located, how much they are paying for it, how often it is being used and when they need to return it. Users can pinpoint the exact location of any piece of connected equipment, and measure and track its utilization to boost performance.
With Total Control, companies can set alerts that notify them of equipment and billing issues before they become a problem. The solution streamlines administrative tasks, allowing users to order and return rental equipment, share equipment costs across multiple POs and process invoices – all in one single, easy-to-use system.
Total Control helps companies benchmark equipment utilization performance against peers. They can gain insight into when is the best time to move equipment off rent, lowering costs by right-sizing fleets and renting only what is needed to get the job done.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.