Six crossings on a new water-main alignment. Day one: four holes, 7.5 truck hours, two loads to the landfill. The bore crew’s late — 1.5 hours of standby, on the ticket. Day two picks up where it left off; the invoice adds both days.
Hydro excavation software for hydrovac and air-vac contractors. Book the job, send a truck that can dig, and let the crew log each day on site. Truck hours, standby, mileage and spoil loads go straight onto the invoice — with your callout minimum built in.
Potholing, daylighting, slot trenching and vac cleanouts · Works offline with no signal · Installs from a link · Priced by the truck, unlimited users
“We are very happy. RouteHouse has been great to work with!”
— 815 Septic Guy Verified customer
A hydrovac job isn’t one stop. Six crossings, a long daylighting run or a slot trench can take the crew three days — so in RouteHouse the job stays open until the work is done, and every day on site is on the record.
For hydrovac and air-vac contractors working for general contractors, utilities, telecom and fiber builders, and municipalities.
Six crossings on a new water-main alignment. Day one: four holes, 7.5 truck hours, two loads to the landfill. The bore crew’s late — 1.5 hours of standby, on the ticket. Day two picks up where it left off; the invoice adds both days.
A main’s let go and the district needs it daylighted now. Emergency Call: type the caller’s number, the customer and address fill in, and the trucks are ranked for the job — can dig, crew on the clock, fewest open jobs today. One tap and it’s on the crew’s list, flagged red.
Every job is a line-item work order. Truck and operator by the hour, the extra hands, the waiting, the drive and the spoil — the lines you already quote are the lines on the invoice.
Ticket number, one-call center, legal dig start, expiry, positive response, utilities marked and locate notes — on the job, in front of the crew, and watched by the schedule.
RouteHouse reads your 811 ticket emails. It doesn’t file, renew or close tickets with a one-call center, and the crew records the positive response.
What you found, where you dumped it and who signed for the day — logged on site and printed on the work order.
Every truck carries its type and whether it can dig. Excavation work is only offered to trucks that can — so a jetter never gets sent to a potholing job.
Arrive, End Day, Finish. The job comes back on tomorrow’s schedule until it’s done, with each day’s time on site, crew and tallies kept — not one stop per visit.
Truck + operator by the hour, with your callout minimum applied automatically when the hours come in short. Standby, mobilization, mileage and spoil loads are standard lines.
Hydrovac, Air-vac, Combo and Jetter truck types and a “can hydro / air excavate” flag. Dig trucks only on dig jobs; vac cleanouts to any vac truck.
Potholing / test holes, daylighting, slot trenching, general excavation, vac cleanout / debris removal, emergency callout and estimate / quote. Outcomes include held on standby (customer delay) and stopped — locate / ticket issue, so the record shows why a day ran short.
The red Emergency Call button: type the caller’s phone and the customer and address fill in, pick the job type, and pick from trucks ranked for the job — ones that can dig, crew on the clock, fewest open jobs today. One tap books it and sends it, flagged red on the schedule, the map and the crew’s list. With the Phone Assistant add-on, main breaks, utility strikes and stopped crews are recognized as urgent the moment they call.
Bill long jobs as they go: a deposit up front, then progress invoices from the work tallied to date or % complete, reviewed weekly, every two weeks or monthly. The final invoice bills the balance.
Save GPS pins for test holes, utility markings, spoil staging, water fill points and truck parking, so the next crew drives to the spot — not just the street address.
Optional “crew has arrived” and “crew has left for the day” texts to the customer, from your own business number — so the GC isn’t calling to ask.
Quotes become jobs, jobs become a branded PDF work order and invoice. The PDF prints every project day, with its time on site, crew and quantities.
Works with no signal on a right-of-way miles from town, installs from a link (no app store needed), and runs in English or Español.
Connect your own Stripe account — customers pay the invoice by card from a link and the money goes straight to your bank. QuickBooks sync when you want it.
Run jetting and CCTV from combo trucks too? Put Sewer & Drain on the same account — one login, one customer book, one set of trucks. See the Vac Truck package →
The office books the job with its type — potholing, daylighting, slot trench — and it’s offered only to trucks that can dig. Emergency? It’s flagged red.
The crew taps Arrive and the clock starts on site. The customer can get a “crew has arrived” text, and the pins show where the holes and the markings are.
Truck hours, laborers, standby, holes, loads and water go on as they happen. End Day — the job comes back on tomorrow’s schedule.
Finish closes the job. The PDF work order prints every project day, and the invoice adds them up — or bill progress along the way.
Works on any internet-connected phone, tablet or computer — iPhone or Android — right in the browser. One step further: the RouteHouse app for iPhone and iPad adds deeper integration with your device, including notifications for new jobs and schedule changes (coming soon to the App Store). See system requirements & what to buy →
Unedited screen recordings of the live app — the schedule your crew works from, and the office side you run the business on.
Want it walked through on your own jobs? Book a demo →
The field app runs the visit. This side grows the business — booking, billing, texting and the integrations crews ask for most. It's all live today.
Crews clock in from the truck — their own phone or a shared tablet, even with no signal. GPS on every punch, overtime figured for you, and a payroll-ready export at the end of the week. See how it works →
Give contract customers their own prices and minimums — their work orders use them automatically. Set your business hours and a multiplier, and after-hours hourly work gets the premium line on the invoice.
The customer signs on the tablet; the signature prints on the report.
Take the call, pick the truck that can do it and is on the clock, and send it — in under a minute.
See labor, materials and disposal against what you billed, and clocked hours that never made the invoice. Labor comes from the Time Clock.
Never send a crew into a washout. A 7-day forecast sits on your schedule and flags the days that put weather-sensitive work at risk — and each tech sees that risk on his own jobs.
Your whole schedule in Google, Apple or Outlook — plus a private per-tech link so each person sees only his own route, nobody else's.
Turn your site into a booking engine. Use a hosted request page or embed it on your own site — requests land right in your schedule and convert to a job or quote in one tap, with address autocomplete and an optional auto-text confirmation.
Text from your own registered business number — “on my way” notes, reminders and a two-way message center with replies and a chime, plus automatic STOP opt-outs handled for you.
Connect your own Stripe account — customers pay by card and the money goes straight to your bank. Send a secure “Pay this invoice” link by email or text; paid and owing reconcile themselves, with an optional cash discount if you'd rather steer customers off cards.
Branded, line-item estimates sent by email or text. Track what's been sent, and turn a won quote into a scheduled job in one tap — no re-typing.
Push invoices straight to QuickBooks — no CSV in the middle. Run it by hand or set it automatic on a daily or weekly schedule, with tax-mismatch review flags before anything posts.
The service-due pipeline puts a dollar figure on your repeat work — this month out to five years — so you can see the revenue coming and rebook a customer in one tap.For hydro excavation that means repeat vac cleanouts for your regular customers, forecast as money on the calendar.
Any report that flags a problem becomes a bookable repair lead — nothing that needs a return visit slips through the cracks, and the work is already scoped.For hydro excavation that means extra holes or a cleanout the crew spotted on site, raised from the report and quoted by the office.
Available worldwide with localized currency and formats in ~140 countries, a field app in 9 languages, and holiday-aware scheduling across 7 countries.
Your logo on every work order, invoice and quote. Every project day on the PDF.
Field app now in 9 languages, and built for more.
A main break comes in while every truck is already on a dig. The RouteHouse Phone Assistant answers every call, just the ones you miss, or only after hours — your choice — and drops a ready-to-schedule request in your Requests box. Main breaks, utility strikes and stopped crews are flagged 🚨 as urgent and can ring straight through to you.
Keep your number. Per-company add-on, works with any plan.
Demo line — the call ends after about 20 seconds, just long enough for a short intro. Your normal call rates apply. “Tammy” is just our demo: name your assistant anything you like, with a male or female voice in a range of accents to match your business.
Quote the work good / better / best and let the customer sign on their phone, with the deposit taken up front. Then sell a plan for the vac cleanouts that keep coming back.
Included with RouteHouse. Financing through the lenders you already work with.
See proposals & memberships →Combo-truck operators don’t need two systems. Put Sewer & Drain and Hydro Excavation on one account — one login, one customer book, one set of trucks, one subscription.
Not a separate product: it’s the two trades on one checkout. One more trade is free with your plan; each trade after that is 40% off.
See Sewer & Drain →For crews that work for municipalities, utilities and industrial plants. Turn it on in Admin › Settings and it works for every trade on the account.
Pro only — on Growth, upgrade to Pro. Certified payroll is built in the WH-347 layout; RouteHouse doesn’t submit it to any agency.
Add every tech and office helper at no extra cost — you pay for service trucks, not seats. Early customers lock these rates in.
Run another RouteHouse trade? Add it at 40% off.
Do other work too? Any Trade jobs are included at no extra cost — hauling, site cleanup and general labor, quoted, scheduled and invoiced in the same app, on the same trucks.
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Prices are per truck, averaged over a 24-month term: buy one year (or 25% down, balance within 30 days) and your second year is on us. One more trade free, your pick; each trade after that is 40% off. Limited-time offer — see payment terms. Unlimited users. Prices exclude applicable taxes.
Coming from Jobber, Tank Track, mHelpDesk, a spreadsheet or paper? On a Year 2 free plan we do the move for you.
Just need scheduling, quotes and invoicing? Any Trade runs general service work for at least 10% less than Jobber, from $26 a month. It doesn’t include hydrovac truck types, dig-truck matching or the hydro excavation job types and price list — that’s what the Hydro Excavation edition is for, and Any Trade jobs come with it. Compare Any Trade →
Running a bigger operation? Talk to us → and we’ll size a plan to your fleet.
Book a 20-minute demo and we’ll run one of your real jobs through RouteHouse — a multi-day potholing job, the callout minimum, standby and spoil loads, and the PDF work order with every project day.
Book a demoWe’ll walk one of your real jobs through RouteHouse — book it to a truck that can dig, log two days on site with truck hours, standby and spoil loads, and watch the callout minimum and the invoice add themselves up. Bring a job you ran last week.
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