Crew Removes Roof From Wrong House - Or, There’s No Need To Track Your Mobile Workers?
This one is kinda cute,spouse picked it up yesterday afternoon. Didja happen to notice the name of the roofing company? Yep, “Precision Roofing”. Well, at least they weren’t in Granada Hills when they were supposed to be in San Pedro. But this sort of thing happens every day. It’s a big world out there and it’s getting bigger. Let’s look for a moment at this incident and the dollars and cents involved.
If the roofing company owner had ever been approached to track his crews with GPS we can be pretty sure he would have reacted, “I can’t do that, it’s too expensive.”
For a decent real-time tracker on the crews truck he would have laid out about $600 and a buck a day for the live reporting. Let’s make a guess at 5 crew trucks, so that would be a one-time expense of $3,000 and $150 a month on going to monitor all those jobs.
A roof job in the San Fernando Valley runs around $9,000 … he’ll certainly wind up paying that much or more to get out of this incident, where tempers have already been riled up … and don’t forget the lost time .. the job those “wrong roofers” were supposed to be on when they made their mistake.
So it’s easy to see he’d be money ahead just avoiding one incident every three years or so. As to the monthly running cost? 4 guys on a crew, 5 crews is 20 men at an average of say $11 per hour … at probably $37,000 per month in labor. Nobody I’ve worked with using live tracking hasn’t found a 10% savings in labor by watching start times, stop times and lunch hours. That’s close to $3,700 a month, easy, in savings, divided by $150 in running cost .. you do the math on the savings.
I wonder if he’s reading this and saying he can’t afford it now? I wonder if you are?
One can learn a lot from dumb old roofing shingles.