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Cleared 100,000 cubic yards on the river project and it hit different
That's more material than we moved in my first five years combined, back when we were still running the old ladder dredges. Anyone else feel like the scale of jobs just keeps getting bigger?
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xena6423mo ago
You're right about the scale. We had to completely change our crew scheduling to handle the bigger volumes.
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mason20913d ago
The real trick is building in enough buffer time without wasting labor costs. If you set up rotating standby teams that can be called in within 6 hours, it saves you from having to overstaff every shift. We found that tracking port congestion patterns helped us predict when we'd need extra hands about three days out. The software is expensive but it pays for itself if it stops you from having ships sitting at dock waiting on a crew. Just make sure whoever picks the system has actually worked on a dock before, not just looked at spreadsheets.
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burns.phoenix3mo ago
Read an article about a shipping company that doubled its fleet size. They had to move from fixed weekly schedules to a dynamic system based on real-time port traffic. The old way just fell apart when every ship was full. It sounded like a total nightmare to rework all those shifts and rotations. Makes you wonder how much of that new profit just goes into the new scheduling software, right?
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