Salt & de-icing tracking that holds up
Log every application by site, amount, and time — on the same visit as the crew's GPS and photos. The documentation commercial contracts and insurers keep asking for, built into the job instead of scribbled on paper.
What every application records
Not a checkbox that says "salted." A real record that answers who, what, how much, where, and when.
Per-site material logs
Record exactly what went down at each property — rock salt, treated salt, brine, sand, or a blend — tied to the specific site and visit, not a shift-wide guess.
Quantities
Record how much went down — bags, tonnes or litres — at every visit, so you can show what was applied for the conditions when an insurer or property manager asks.
Timestamps
Every application is stamped with when it happened. "We salted that lot" becomes "we applied treated salt at 4:12 a.m." — a defensible fact, not a memory.
GPS location
Every log belongs to a visit that carries the crew's GPS position, so the record shows the work happened at the property, not somewhere on the way there.
Photos
Geo-tagged before/after photos from the same visit sit right beside the log. A picture of a treated lot at a known time is the evidence that ends most disputes before they start.
Usage by route
See what each truck loaded and what came off it, route by route and storm by storm — so you know what each storm used against what you loaded.
Why it matters
Dispatch and GPS get the crew to the lot. The material record is what your highest-value clients ask for afterwards: in Icey, salt is logged per site, per visit, with the time, the GPS and the photos from that visit.
Commercial contracts increasingly require material records. Property managers answer to owners and their insurers, and "we treated it" does not satisfy either. A per-site log with amounts and timestamps is what wins and keeps those accounts.
Slip-and-fall claims turn on documentation. When a lawyer asks whether you applied ice melt at a specific property on a specific date, a timestamped, GPS-tagged, photo-backed record is the difference between a defended claim and a paid one. Reconstructed-from-memory notes do not hold up the same way.
Better pricing is the bonus. Material logs show what each site really uses, so next season's all-in price covers the salt it takes.
Go deeper
- Salt application rates cheat sheet — how much product per 1,000 sq ft, by pavement temperature.
- Slip-and-fall liability documentation — what a salt log needs to survive a claim.
Stop logging salt on paper
Crews log every application from their phone — by site, amount and time, on the same visit as the GPS and photos. Free for crews of up to 5 operators.
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