Louis Massaro walks through a daily truck inventory process for moving companies. Record every box, pad, dolly, and strap each morning to catch what's missing before you buy replacements. Most equipment waste happens because nobody tracks what actually left the job site.
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Truck inventory process. Truck inventory process. This is every single morning. We've got to make sure that we are keeping track of the inventory on the trucks, your materials, packing boxes, tape, shrink wrap, bubble wrap, whatever you've got for materials to use on the job, to sell on the job. Then you've got equipment, pads, dollies, straps, right? You know already, and if you don't, you know, if there's a reason why you keep buying more equipment, you keep buying more pads, you keep buying more dollies, but you don't have more trucks, it's because the stuff is either walking off the truck, it's being left at the customer's house, and no one's being held accountable for it, right? And this is a big problem because in order for your movers to do the job that you're promising to your customers, they need the proper equipment. Truck inventory process, get that on point. Stop wasting money on materials. Stop wasting money on extra pads and dollies, right? Buy the extra pads and dollies as you scale, as you grow, as you get more trucks.