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The field day, recorded once and costed on approval

A foreman records what his crew did in the words his crew uses. The office approves it. At that moment — and not before — the cost lands on the job. One entry, one approval, one number everybody is looking at.
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Field dayTuesday · Riverside Commons
Planned210 CY/hr
Today82.3 CY/hr

Crew hours

34.0

Machine hours

26.5

Production

2,180 CY

What the crew did, in the words the crew uses

The form asks for what a foreman already knows at the end of the day. It does not ask him for a cost code he has never heard of, and it never shows him a wage.

  • Labor by person and hours

    Straight and overtime. Rates are applied by the office; the field never sees what anybody earns.

  • Equipment by machine

    Operating hours, and idle or down when that is what happened. An hour a machine spent waiting is worth recording.

  • Production by activity

    Quantity and hours together — because quantity alone says what was built and not how fast.

  • Haul loads with tickets

    Truck, material, destination, ticket reference and the times if the driver has them.

  • Delays, with a reason

    Rain, utility conflict, waiting on a truck. Categorised, so a pattern can show up later.

  • Photos and notes

    Attached to the day, on the job, where an argument three months later can find them.

Production against the plan

The comparison is the point. A day is not good or bad in isolation — it is good or bad against what the bid assumed.
Today against planMass excavation

Planned

210 CY/hr

From the winning estimate

Today

82.3 CY/hr

Job to date

164 CY/hr

Quantity remaining

9,340 CY

Once several jobs are finished, EARTHVOQ can also compare today against what your crews have historically achieved — which is a different and often more useful question than whether it beat the bid.

Approval is the gate

  1. 01

    Draft

    The foreman records through the day. Nothing has left the phone.

  2. 02

    Submitted

    End of shift. The office can see it; the job cost has not moved.

  3. 03

    Approved

    A PM approves. Cost posts to the job, sealed, in one transaction — approving twice posts once.

  4. 04

    Corrected

    A mistake is corrected by a new entry, not by editing history. The trail survives.

What the office sees the same morning

Not at month end. Not when the accountant closes. The morning after the day happened.

Actual cost

$173,400

Posted by approved days and receipts

Against budget

61%

Of $284,000

Quantity complete

54%

Gap

7 points

Cost ahead of production

Where that gap goes next is job costing and cost tracking.

Related EARTHVOQ capabilities

Run one week of field days and see what the office learns.

Fourteen days, no card. One crew, one job, one foreman with a phone is enough to tell whether this fits how you already work.
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