Locates
Expiry alerts before a dig gets stopped — not after.
Every Ontario One Call response lands in Vinclo automatically, tracked utility by utility, with the PM and the foreman both warned before the clock runs out.
- Every utility, its own clock
- Bell, gas, hydro — each responds with its own expiry. Vinclo tracks the soonest one, because that's the one that actually stops the dig.
- Two people warned, twice
- Push alerts fire at 7 days and 1 day before expiry — to the PM to renew it, and the foreman to halt if it isn't renewed in time.
- Renewal keeps the paper trail
- A locate nearing expiry renews into a fresh ticket, linked back to the one it replaced — never a silent extension of stale mark-outs.
How it works
From a submitted ticket to a crew package.
- 01
Responses land automatically
Utilities reply to your Vinclo-provisioned inbound address; Locate Ingest parses the email and files the response, no manual entry.
- 02
Each response gets its expiry
Enter the expiry once per utility response — Vinclo rolls every response on a locate up into one validity badge, earliest-wins.
- 03
Alerts fire before the deadline
7 days out, then 1 day out — to whoever needs to act, before a crew shows up to a ticket that's already lapsed.
- 04
Verify, then package for the crew
Once every expected response is in, verify the locate and generate a Crew Package — every response merged into one PDF, cover page included.
Related reading
Field operations coverage, from the source.
Sequencing, crew capacity, and the operational calls that keep a dig on schedule — on the Vinclo blog.
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