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The email came in on a Tuesday morning last September. New Jersey Transit needed something that didn’t exist—a truck that could operate on both highway and rail, equipped with a scissor lift for overhead work, configured to meet both DOT highway specifications and Federal Railroad Administration requirements, and delivered in
A Pennsylvania DOT crew spent 47 minutes setting up a lane closure on I-80 last summer. Two workers carried cones from a flatbed truck, placed them in position, and returned to their vehicle. Standard procedure. They’ve done it a thousand times. Here’s the cost analysis of those 47 minutes: two
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices isn’t exactly bedtime reading. Most contractors know the MUTCD exists, know it matters, and know they’re supposed to comply with it. Beyond that, the details get fuzzy. That approach worked fine when updates came out every few years with minor tweaks. But the
