Pit & Quarry, April 2017
EVENT ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE we are attempting to market this industry as an intricate and interesting one So if a young guy wants a challenge or wants to be more in tune with electronic innovations and so on certainly this is the industry to be in ALEXANDER Id like to make one comment about the wall I dont have any doubt that its going to happen From our personal perspective its going to make us more competitive We have a lot of operations in south Texas where we do everything right as far as getting our permits We make sure we dont hire anybody that shouldnt be in the country and theres a cost that comes with that If weve got to pay the prevailing rate of 18 to 20 an hour and our competitor because theyre not being regulated and know they can get away with it pays 6 an hour we cant win jobs So as that gets cleaned up which I hope it does our profits should increase DANNER One thing were starting to see is other industries offering younger people telecommuting f lexible hours pick your own schedule Its going to be fun to see how we compete with that If Facebook hires somebody right out of college and that person says Hey you know I really want to come into work at noon and I want to work till 10 oclock at night Facebook says Great do it With us we tell them Youve got to be there at 5 00 in the morning or 6 00 in the morning You cant have your haul truck driver working a different schedule from your front end loader guy And then theres telecommuting We cant quite let you run the front end loader from your computer at home at least not in this day and age Maybe in the future But these are some of the fringe benefits that other industries are able to offer and that are somewhat becoming the norm Its going to be hard for us to compete with that CADWALADER They call that the Google Effect in California It started all of that Come in when you want and work late and you can go down to the gym right here on campus for a while So it ruined Improve task productivity across the quarry haul fleet H2250 provides accurate haul totals removing the need for tally sheets and production estimates For more information contact your local dealer today 18005285623 aggregates trimble com P Q Mag 04 17 LOADRITE H2250 the workforce Cadwalader Haul Truck Monitor GOETHEL The industry is going to have to adapt to the millennials versus in the prior generations the generations adapted to the industry and what the job was Were faced with those challenges I 24 PIT QUARRY April 2017 pitandquarry com
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