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Business Services
How to Start a Safety Program
Timmons Group
Leadership commitment, customization, written program mean success.
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Peak Patching Productivity
Crafco Inc.
See how contractors and agencies alike are making road repairs safer and faster with an innovative solution for skid steers.
Peak Patching Productivity
Business Services
How Pavement Maintenance Can Be Fun and Successful
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Paving
Education Best Strategy when it Comes to Sealcoating
It’s essential to inform your client about services you will provide and products you will use on the job so there are clear expectations.
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Training & Education
5 “Self-Defense” Seminars that Can Save Your Business
These sessions, presented at National Pavement Expo 2016 in Charlotte, NC can help contractors prevent or avoid key these issues before they arise and potentially ruin your business.
At NPE 2016 in Charlotte, Grow Consulting’s Guy Gruenberg (pictured at last year’s NPE in Nashville) will cover topics ranging from question-based sales, job costing, and how to execute business strategies to “Confronting 2016’s Critical Issues,” presented jointly with Brad Humphrey, Pinnacle Development Group.
Business
How to Fix a Struggling Company
Survival for Petra Paving depended on learning and implementing what it didn’t know.
Chris Tammany not only enjoys being in the field but he knows Petra Paving is a better company when he’s guiding the crew. “My forte is out in the field,” he says. “Our square-foot-per-hour is much higher when I’m out there on the job than when I’m not on the job so I need to be out there.”
Seal Coating
How QuickBooks Can Help Ease Your Business Operation
New NPE2016 session teaches contractors how to take full advantage of this business management software.
QuickBooks Basics & “How-to’s” will teach attendees: • How to set up and create inventory, accounts receivables, accounts payables, payroll, estimates and financial reports • Teach contractors how QuickBooks can be used to set up and run bank and credit card reconciliations • Ensure contractors know how to take full advantage of QuickBooks’ ease of use, flexibility, variety and ability to integrate functions
Paving
How to Create an Apprentice Program for Your Workers
“One of our focuses is to hire from within the company, and to hire family members,” Randy Larson says. “We now have three brothers. That started with one and that turned into three and now we have three of the cousins too so that turned into six. They are the backbone of my labor force.”
Business
6 Steps Every Contractor Needs to Take for Growth
When scheduling jobs ACI Asphalt provides foremen with as much detail as possible on their iPad including location, job components, which employees will be working, and what equipment and traffic control is needed among other specifics. The information is accessible through the foreman’s app.
Business Services
Stop "Selling Price" Alone!
Paving
U.S. Pavement Services Donates 100 Christmas Trees to Veterans
U.S. Pavement Services, Inc.
The majority of the trees were delivered to the Massachusetts Department of Veteran Services locatons in Woburn, Salem, and Wilmington - MA
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Paving
NPE2016 Adds Third Equipment Giveaway
National Pavement Expo 2016 in Charlotte, NC is offering three equipment giveaway opportunities in 2016 in addition to more than 50 conference sessions and an expanded exhibit hall.
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Paving
Never Too Old to Practice
Working at our craft may change technically over the years, but we should never stop practicing what we are trying to perform.
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