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Last month, I sat across from a highway contractor in Newark who’d just lost a $2.3 million project because his work zone safety plan didn’t meet the new requirements. He’d been using traditional traffic control—cones, barrels, and flaggers—for 20 years. It had always worked until it didn’t. “Should’ve invested in
Last month, a highway crew in Pennsylvania was setting up cones for emergency pothole repair on I-476. Standard procedure: TMA truck positioned as a barrier, arrow board flashing, workers doing their jobs. Then, a distracted driver going 70 mph plowed straight into the attenuator. The TMA truck absorbed the impact
Three weeks ago, a contractor from Pennsylvania called our facility in Flanders, completely frustrated. He’d just been kicked off a job site in Maryland because his TMA truck didn’t meet that state’s specific requirements. The equipment worked fine in Pennsylvania. He’d invested over $100,000 in the truck. But Maryland’s regulations
