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When 30 Truckloads Becomes 90
A municipal procurement story about why paper hauling records hide the worst kind of cost overrun, and how the city found out too late. A medium-sized municipal project — call it a road reconstruction with a base-and-asphalt scope — gets scoped for somewhere around 30 truckloads of haul over a few weeks. The estimate comes from the engineer, the contractor signs off, the work starts. By the time the project closes out, the manifest count is closer to 90. I've seen this happen
Jean-Sebastien Rolland
3 days ago3 min read
The Oil & Gas Case for Portfolio-Wide Soil Tracking
A corporate procurement team sits down to renew its environmental services contracts for the year. Eight environmental consultants on the roster. Four preferred receiving sites. A stable of haulers across three regions. A couple dozens of active or watch-listed contaminated sites in the portfolio. The question on the table is simple: which subcontractors are actually performing, and what should the renewals look like? The answer: nobody knows. Not because nobody cares. Becau
Jean-Sebastien Rolland
May 54 min read
Three Parts of TraceNet That Save You Time on 406/19 Hauling Records
Running Ontario soil, you already know the 406/19 workflow: record created and confirmed accurate before departure, record in the vehicle throughout transport, acknowledgment at the deposit site, copies at both ends, two-year retention. None of it is optional. What changes is how long each step takes when the tool is built around it. Here are three parts of TraceNet built around that workflow. Ontario hauling record: driver lookup by plate The Ontario hauling record has field
Jean-Sebastien Rolland
Apr 232 min read
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