Hard hats, easy hotels: Vanguard’s travel secret is Engine

Hard hats, easy hotels: Vanguard’s travel secret is Engine

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June 23, 2025

When you’re running crews across California’s toughest jobsites—from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Caldecott Tunnel—booking hotel rooms shouldn’t be the hardest part of the day. But for Vanguard Construction, it was becoming a full-time job (and then some).

Dispatcher Victor S. was juggling spreadsheets, hotel websites, credit card forms, and endless follow-ups—often burning his weekends just to keep things on track.

Then came Engine.

With Engine, Victor can book 20 rooms at 12 hotels in under 10 minutes, all from one centralized platform. No more email tag, missing folios, or broken spreadsheets. Just fast, organized, field-ready hotel booking—and real support when it’s needed most.

Victor said it best: “If Engine disappeared tomorrow, I’d lose my weekends.”

Read the full story to see how Engine gave Vanguard their time (and weekends) back.

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Hotels want to reach business travelers while companies with traveling workforces want the best rates they can get.

Our platform brings everyone together to radically simplify trip management and give everyone exactly what they want. By booking with Engine, you and your company will save substantially in both time and money.

By providing great value to our hotel partners, we get great rates. That means we can take a small cut of each booking — enough to cover 24/7 Member Support and continually re-invest in new technology — and still offer deals to our members that are up to 60% less than the online public travel sites.

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  • If your company signs up for FlexPro, every traveler is fully covered with our highest degree of flexibility. Learn more about FlexPro.