GeoffDiamond
LawnSite Bronze Member
- Location
- Maine
How do you guys call in the crews? Do have set a time the day before?<br>Have a beeper for everyone?<br>Just call everyone at when it's time to start?<br>Or what?<p>What i do, i was lucky enough to buy a set of old radios from a local fire departmen. Anyways they sold everything radios with mikes, radios with out mikes, truck radios, and a base station unit. They sold all of this at a town auction. It was all placed on 3 pallets, each pallet sold for 50 bucks each, i got all 3. The down side is i had to have every radio reprogramed and buy a setting number. The good news is that each truck has a radio. I also have several radios that you can talk into that stay at the shop. These radios are for the shoverlers, and anyone else that is out of their truck for more than 5 mins. Then i have to radios you can't talk into, every driver and anyone else has one of these. With this radio you can take it home. When it is time to call out the crews i have 3 tones to pick from. <br>The first tone calls just the sand trucks.<br>The second tone is for full commercial run, and is followed by all tucks or some trucks. I have to say which trucks are going to roll.<br>The third tone is for a full run. All trucks to their jobs.<p>This is what i do for night or am plowing. I have all the commercial trucks on their commercial runs with the residental trucks helping untill the commercial lots are under contoll. For a day time storm, i have a small commercial crew, that keep the parking lots sanded and plowed the best they can. While some of the commercial guys are doing residental with the residental guys. When the residental jobs are done, it is almost dark and a lot of business are closed for the day. Then every truck does commercial. I have found you have to take a chance when doing this, but i works really well. This is my 3rd year doing it.<p>Geoff