Quiet start to the day — 2 things worth a decision today.
- 6-yard stock projected shortBooked work leaves you 3 six-yard skips short tomorrow.
- Permit runs out tomorrow on a skip still outThe collection booked for it lands after it expires.
Skip tracking software
Know where every skip is, and which ones are overdue.
SkipDeck keeps one record of every skip from the day it goes out to the day it comes back: where it is, what size it is, who has it, when it is due, and what happened to it after the yard. The overdue ones become a chase list. The ones in the yard become tomorrow’s deliveries.
The dashboard as the office opens it · cropped to the top of the screen
No card and no sales call. Import the skips already out from your own spreadsheet and the chase list is there the same afternoon.
Four questions the whiteboard cannot answer.
The book can, because every skip out is a record rather than a line to rub off.
Which skips have been out too long?
Every skip out has a date it went and a day it should come back. The ones past it are a chase list, oldest first, with the customer's number beside each — not a column somebody has to read down.
Which skip is this call about?
Search the skips out by address, street or customer and the one at that site comes up, with what size it is, when it went and who took it. A collection booked from that call is paired to the delivery that put the skip there, so nothing is collected twice or counted twice.
What is actually in the yard?
Stock per size, worked out from what went out and what came back — so when the office books an 8-yard delivery for Thursday, the book already knows whether there will be an 8-yarder to send.
Did it really happen?
The driver marks each stop done from their phone — a page in the browser, nothing to install — with photos and a signature where you want them. The skip is out the moment the delivery is marked, and back the moment the collection is.
The record follows the skip back through the yard.
Tracking that stops at “collected” leaves the weight, the waste paperwork and the invoice to be matched up by hand later. Here they land on the same job.
Weighed
The collection goes over the bridge and the weight, with what was in it, lands on the same job.
Recorded
The waste receipt is built from the job's own details — carrier, site, container, codes.
Invoiced
Nothing is invoiced twice and nothing is forgotten: the job knows what has been billed.
This is not GPS. SkipDeck tracks skips by what was booked and what drivers marked done, not by a tag on the skip or a tracker on the lorry.
Knowing where every skip is, is what makes tomorrow arrangeable.
A delivery needs an empty of the right size, and a collection brings one back. When the book knows which skips are where, the board can tell you whether the delivery you are about to put on a lane has a skip to go on it — before the lorry leaves, rather than at the gate. See the board.
See your own skips out, sorted by how overdue they are.
Fourteen days, no card, your own book. Bring the spreadsheet you use today and it becomes the starting list.