The cost of idle gear
What’s all that idle
gear costing you?
A few numbers you already know. Every assumption behind the answer is on screen and yours to change — put your own in and the figure becomes real.
Your yard
Everything you rent out — big iron and small tools alike.
What a typical machine rents for per day, blended across the fleet.
Roughly the share of the fleet earning right now — your utilisation today.
Where you'd land with the idle gear finally visible. A few points is a lot of money.
Assumptions
Starting points, not industry research. Change them to match your own yard — the number on the right is only worth what you put into it.
The days the counter is open and gear can go out.
Left in the yard every year
$142,080
in rentals you’d reclaim getting from 61% to 71%utilisation — no new machines, just the ones you already own out more days.
- Rental days your fleet has a year
- 9,600
- Machine-days sitting idle now
- 3,744
- Recovered per machine, a year
- $4,440
- Revenue you'd add
- $142,080
We’ll open the call with your board, not a slide deck.