I was a first responder for 35 years and ran over 10,000 emergency calls in my career for the St Louis gas utility ,I can assure you if you want to hand out, Maps we will have to add more first responders (you will learn more from your mistakes than you ever will from your successes). Most businesses want to grow , gain more knowledge and expand but if you listen to to your guest all he wants to do is reduce tickets and shed responsibility . Believe me , I know the location business is tough , it takes on a lot of liability and some days can be frustrating at best . If this is the business you’re in, I suggest strive to do the best job possible . I’m not sure who crowned your guest umpire of the locate tickets. It boils down to a contractor needing locates on utilities (his or her ticket will be the most important ticket to them , I don’t care if they’re the largest excavator in the country or a guy installing bounce house, pegs for his kids, The locates need to be done) . Mike, it kind of sounds like your guest doesn’t quite get it and the ticket world revolves around him .
Hi, Bob. I think one of the most challenging contract locating industry problem is that people don't want to be locators. It's very tough to find people that will take the job and maybe even harder to retain them. Jemmie's view is that we are never going to have enough people to address the escalating volume of locates so the industry needs to change how they do locating. He could certainly be wrong about things he says in this video but he could also be right. I don't agree with all his points but that's why we decided to get together and talk. I certainly appreciate your comments, Bob. Thank you. Mike
It’s not that Jemmie didn’t make a lot of good points ,he did but when you make statements like “ I don’t care” that doesn’t help anyone. Just like in the story he told about his daughter & no air conditioning “ I don’t care” , I think it would’ve been much better to explain to her why they don’t have air conditioning and the culture of the people without air conditioning. Mike, you interviewed a lot of great contractors and utility personnel & it’s quite obvious, they care . Yes,the light needs to be shined on the differences between generalized marking request and localized (The area or areas where the work will be performed ). I feel this problem could be remedied by the states public service commissions very easily , by assessing fees for unreasonable marking request (As Jemmie said “they need a little skin in the game”).
I was a first responder for 35 years and ran over 10,000 emergency calls in my career for the St Louis gas utility ,I can assure you if you want to hand out, Maps we will have to add more first responders (you will learn more from your mistakes than you ever will from your successes). Most businesses want to grow , gain more knowledge and expand but if you listen to to your guest all he wants to do is reduce tickets and shed responsibility . Believe me , I know the location business is tough , it takes on a lot of liability and some days can be frustrating at best . If this is the business you’re in, I suggest strive to do the best job possible . I’m not sure who crowned your guest umpire of the locate tickets. It boils down to a contractor needing locates on utilities (his or her ticket will be the most important ticket to them , I don’t care if they’re the largest excavator in the country or a guy installing bounce house, pegs for his kids, The locates need to be done) . Mike, it kind of sounds like your guest doesn’t quite get it and the ticket world revolves around him .
Hi, Bob. I think one of the most challenging contract locating industry problem is that people don't want to be locators. It's very tough to find people that will take the job and maybe even harder to retain them. Jemmie's view is that we are never going to have enough people to address the escalating volume of locates so the industry needs to change how they do locating. He could certainly be wrong about things he says in this video but he could also be right. I don't agree with all his points but that's why we decided to get together and talk. I certainly appreciate your comments, Bob. Thank you. Mike
It’s not that Jemmie didn’t make a lot of good points ,he did but when you make statements like “ I don’t care” that doesn’t help anyone. Just like in the story he told about his daughter & no air conditioning “ I don’t care” , I think it would’ve been much better to explain to her why they don’t have air conditioning and the culture of the people without air conditioning.
Mike, you interviewed a lot of great contractors and utility personnel & it’s quite obvious, they care . Yes,the light needs to be shined on the differences between generalized marking request and localized (The area or areas where the work will be performed ). I feel this problem could be remedied by the states public service commissions very easily , by assessing fees for unreasonable marking request (As Jemmie said “they need a little skin in the game”).