Back in the late 90’s, when I first trained as a locate technician, I did my ride-alongs with a retired telephone tech. On our first day together, he took me for a Danish and coffee and then set me to work locating a couple miles of copper phone line in a rural road ditch. By …
THE SECOND Annual St. Baldrick’s “Head Shaving” Fundraiser at Barbco, Inc. was a resounding success! Barbco, a manufacturer of capital equipment for the trenchless excavation, horizontal directional drilling, and underground manufacturing industries located in Canton, Ohio, converted their assembly bay into the St. Baldrick Barbershop. The event, called “Bald is Badass at Barbco,” raises funds …
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Horizontal Directional Drilling: Its Impact on Utility Location (Special Issue: Australia 2018) Author: Innes Fisher “How helpful that you mention that horizontal directional drilling can greatly reduce installation costs in some areas. I am starting a new business this winter. I will find a great direction drilling service to help as well.” – Tiff Gregers …
THE AMERICAN TRAFFIC Safety Services (ATSS) Foundation’s two-fold mission is heavily focused on youth. It offers college scholarships to the dependents of men and women killed or permanently disabled in work zone incidents and travel scholarships so youth who lost a parent, sibling or caregiver in a work zone incident can attend Experience Camps to …
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Kelley Heinz (Spring, 2021) A Damage Prevention Hero Who goes Above and Beyond her Responsibilities to Promote Safety and Damage Prevention Outreach! Kelley is the brainchild behind the Ready, Respond, Recover Program (learn more in dp-PRO, Spring 2021). She brings more than 20 years of experience to her current role as Damage Prevention Manager and …
OVER 29 MILLION people call Texas home. Reaching each resident has proven to be challenging for Texas811. What happens when we face challenges at Texas811? We think outside-the-box for ways to maximize our exposure. One way we have been able to do this is with the help of the One Call Board of Texas. The …
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AFTER MAKING the difficult decision to postpone the 2020 Greater Chesapeake Damage Prevention Training Conference (GCDPTC), title sponsors Miss Utility of Maryland/District One Call and Miss Utility of Delmarva were very excited to welcome back hundreds of damage prevention professionals to the 2021 GCDPTC, which took place in October at the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel …
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THE MINNESOTA Utility Contractors Association (MUCA) was able to hold their annual charity event for Children’s Minnesota in person in 2021, resulting in another record- breaker. Day of the Dozers offered rides for the kids in dozers, backhoes, excavators and dump trucks on September 25 in Elk River, Minnesota. The annual event saw 3,342 participants …
2022 IS A MILESTONE for several One Call Centers in the U.S., celebrating 50 years of operation! Since the need to protect underground infrastructure from excavation began, the One Call Industry has been here to enable effective communication between stakeholders. Over time the technology used to meet this mission has evolved. Starting with teletype systems …
