工程项目中Hotshot指什么意思?

在翻译一段美国设备的质保条款时出现了以下一段:

All transporting, hotshot charges, towing, rigging costs or other costs incurred in the removal or reinstallation of Equipment as may be required to affect any warranted repair or replacement.

当中的hotshot难以理解,于是到英文搜索中试了试,找到了以下一段:

What is Hotshot trucking?

Hotshot trucking reportedly evolved in the early boom days of oil rigs and wildcatting. A broken part on an oil drilling or pumping rig meant expensive down time, but it was impossible for riggers to maintain a complete supply of spare parts. Out of this grew a group of entrepreneurial small truck owners who would standby at machine shops and oil field suppliers and when a call came in for a part, these early hotshots would pick up the piece and rush it to the oilfields. This process worked for everybody, drillers knew they could get parts in a timely manner, suppliers could maintain enough inventory to supply a large area of the oil fields, and a group of entrepreneurial truck owners were cashing in on the demand for delivery services.

Today, the concept has expanded nationwide to include pickup and delivery of smaller, Less-Than-a-Truckload (LTL) of items and deliver them directly to the receiver. Hotshots, by the very nature of their business, provide “expedited” shipping compared to Class 8 OTR trucks that travel from terminal-to-terminal where products are off-loaded and held for pickup or transferred to a local delivery service. Hotshots are business LTL time machines.

大意:

Hotruck一词多与trucking连用,作hotshot trucking;在早期油田开发时,钻井和采油时零部件损坏将意味着高昂的停产损失;由此兴起了一部分人开着卡车守在采油设备供货商处,当有电话紧急请求设备零件时,这些卡车可以迅速将货物运送至油田。这样一个供货商可以为周边很大区域的多个油田备货和供货,而采油公司也可以最短的停产时间拿到更换的零件。现在,这种服务已经扩展到许多零担(非整车)小件运输业务当中,提供及时和便捷的运送服务。而传统的整车物流则定时发车,到目的地后卸货,收货人需要自行到卸货处提货或再转交当地派送服务送到。

因此,可以理解这个hotshot词语在此处指“代送货”业务。

于是,文章开头的这段话翻译如下:

在可能影响到质保维修或换件的情形下,拆卸或重新安装设备时发生的所有交通、代送货、拖曳、吊装作业或其它费用。