r/workwagons

All the tools are in the two sliding doors up front, the rear is just full of parts and fittings.

Too much? Nahhh
I can’t wait for those new Milwaukee cabinets coming soon.
I plan to replace all the black shelves up top with them.

[Founder here]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working as a commercial facility HVAC technician for years, and one recurring nightmare drove me to learn software development: tracking heavy mechanical hardware inside concrete vaults, hospital basements, and deep sub-levels.

Every enterprise CMMS or inventory tool on the market completely drops dead the moment you lose cellular service. On top of that, manual data entry while hanging off a ladder trying to read a corroded, sun-bleached nameplate is completely impractical.

I built Equipment Tracker Pro to solve the exact headaches we face in the dirt.

The core architecture runs on a localized SQLite engine that caches everything locally on-device. It updates and logs completely offline, then executes a smart-sync state change with a Firebase backend only when you walk back out to the truck and hit signal.

To kill the keyboard friction, I integrated a multimodal Gemini AI scanning layer. You snap a photo of a weathered data plate, and it extracts over 40 structured database fields (Compressor RLA/LRA, MCA, MOP, factory chemical charge weights, belt codes, and filter sizes). It also automates EPA Section 608 leak-rate math configurations for heavy commercial industrial charges and handles native thermal printing layouts for on-site QR asset tagging.

The core logging frameworks are completely free because bottom-up technician adoption matters more than corporate walls.

The web platform documentation and details are fully accessible directly via our main domain portal at: https://equipment-tracker.com

I am also launching a Product Hunt community queue this Tuesday to gather raw UX feedback from other developers and field engineers.

Would love to know your thoughts on the offline-first sync architecture or the edge OCR accuracy limits if you've built similar tools!

This toolbox was on a former DOT dump truck that I’ve converted to a flatbed. I don’t want it but I don’t know what it’s called or what it’s worth. I can’t find anything like it online. Nothing on Knapheids catalog looks like this. It straddles the frame of the truck on both sides, and has long, nearly full width drawers that pull out. It’s got places to mount oxy-acetylene bottles on the opposite side. I’m looking for the right term so I can list it accurately.