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EARTHVOQ

[ Excavation estimating ]

Excavation estimating software that prices the job the way you run it

Yards, hours, a machine and a truck. EARTHVOQ builds the estimate out of the same things you would count on the back of a plan set, and prices them on your rates rather than on somebody’s published average.
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What the hour costsYour equipment, your crew
Cat 336$109.55/hr

Ownership $48.20 · operating $61.35

Excavation crew A$190.00/hr

Operator, two laborers, foreman

Haul — 6 trucks$38.00/load

14 CY loads, 38 min cycle

Start from cubic yards

Every excavation line begins as a quantity. Take it off the plan, work it out in a calculator, or type what you measured on site — but the estimate always knows where the number came from.

  • Bank, loose and compacted

    Swell and shrink are applied where they belong, and stated. A yard in the ground and a yard in the truck are not the same yard.

  • Trench by section

    Length, width and depth, with the bedding and backfill priced as their own lines rather than folded into the dig.

  • Quantities that keep their source

    A figure taken off a sheet stays linked to the shape it was measured from.

Your machine, your operator, your hourly cost

An excavator does not cost what the internet says it costs. It costs what you paid for it, over the hours you actually run it, on the fuel you actually burn.

Built up, not typed in

Purchase price, residual, lifetime hours and annual utilisation give the ownership side. Fuel burn, price, maintenance and wear give the operating side. They are kept apart because they behave differently: ownership accrues whether or not the machine turns a track.

The operator is asked about out loud — in the machine rate, or in the crew — because getting that wrong is how labor gets counted twice on every line.

CrewExcavation crew A

Operator

$52.00/hr

Wage plus burden

Laborer × 2

$38.50/hr

Each

Foreman

$61.00/hr

Crew

$190.00/hr

Haul and disposal, priced separately

On an export job the trucking is frequently the largest single number and the one most often estimated as a round figure. EARTHVOQ prices it as a cycle.
Haul scenarioExport to landfill

Load

14 CY

Per truck

Cycle

38 min

Load, haul, dump, return

Loads

515

Disposal

$18.40/CY

Tipping fee, your ticket

Once you have run a few jobs, EARTHVOQ can tell you what your cycles have actually been against what you assumed — see what your own history says.

The estimate a foreman would recognise

In the order you build it

Clear, strip, cut, haul, fill, fine grade. Sections you named, not a fixed schema.

Priced per activity

Every line shows quantity, production, hours, crew, machine and extended cost.

Nothing hidden in a total

If a number changes, you can see which line moved and why.

When the job is won

The estimate becomes the budget, the field records against it, and the difference is visible while there is still time to do something about it.

Budget

$284,000

From the winning estimate

Actual to date

$173,400

Approved field days and receipts

Committed

$41,600

Ordered, not yet delivered

Forecast

$301,200

Actual + committed + remaining

That is cost tracking and forecasting, and both start from the estimate on this page.

Related EARTHVOQ capabilities

Bring one job you already priced, and check the software against it.

That is the only test worth running. If EARTHVOQ lands somewhere near a job you already know the answer to, the next one is worth trusting it with.
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14 days, no card. Plans from $79 a month.