Vehicle service status tracking system and method

A method of managing a plurality of moving equipment items comprising the steps of:

• maintaining in an availability databases information on availability of one or more moving equipment items from the plurality of moving equipment items;
• maintaining in a moving equipment status database information on repair status of one or more moving equipment items from the plurality of moving equipment items;
• creating a service event notification in said moving equipment status database pertaining to one or more moving equipment items of said plurality of moving equipment items;
• generating a predicted service completion date for said one or more moving equipment items using said service event notification;
• and
• automatically communicating said predicted service completion date for said one or more moving equipment items to said availability database.

A system for managing a plurality of moving equipment items, the system comprising:

• a moving equipment database for maintaining information on availability and repair status information of one or more moving equipment items from the plurality of moving equipment items;
• a service event notifier for creating a service event notification in said moving equipment database, the service event notification pertaining to one or more moving equipment items;
• and
• a date dissemination module for automatically communicating a predicted service completion date for said one or more moving equipment items to said moving equipment database.

A system for managing moving equipment items comprising:

• an availability database for maintaining information on availability of one or more moving equipment items from a plurality of moving equipment items;
• a moving equipment status database for maintaining information on repair status of one or more moving equipment items from the plurality of moving equipment items;
• a service event notifier for creating a service event notification in said moving equipment status database pertaining to one or more moving equipment items of said plurality of moving equipment items;
• a date generator for generating a predicted service completion date for said one or more moving equipment items using said service event notification.

A system for managing a plurality of moving equipment items, the system comprising:

• a central equipment manager;
• at least one local equipment manager in communication with the central equipment manager;
• an event notification generator for creating a service event notification pertaining to one of the moving equipment items using one of the plurality of local equipment managers;
• a first data transmitter capable of transmitting the service event notification from the local equipment manager to the central equipment manager;
• and
• a second data transmitter capable of transmitting the service event notification from the central equipment manager to the local equipment manager.

A system for managing a plurality of moving equipment items, the system comprising:

• means for providing a central equipment manager;
• means for providing a plurality of local equipment managers in communication with the central equipment manager;
• means for creating a service event notification pertaining to one of the moving equipment items using one of the plurality of local equipment managers;
• means for transmitting the service event notification from the one of the plurality of local equipment managers to the central equipment manager;
• and
• means for transmitting the service event notification from the central equipment manager to one or more local equipment managers of the plurality of local equipment managers.