G 1.0
One coordination point, a long way out
Work performed across more than 24 states, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, run as projects with budgets, deadlines and reporting rather than as dispatched trucks.
There are two ways a contractor covers ground. One is to open branches and hope each one is as good as the last. The other is to run crews out of one place, with one project management function, and accept that distance costs money and has to be planned for.
We do the second. It means one set of standards, one reporting format, and one group of people who know the whole picture on your programme rather than a branch manager who knows their share of it. It also means being honest about mobilisation: getting a crew to a site four states away is a real cost, it is quoted separately, and on a routed site list it is spread rather than repeated.
The practical consequence is that this contractor is well suited to a site list and less well suited to a single small job a long way away. Twelve structures across two states is a good project. One antenna swap in a market we have no other work in is one you should probably give to somebody local, and we will say so.
The base market
Central Florida is where the office is and where scheduling has the most flexibility. Within the state, a crew can usually be somewhere inside a day, and the south-east is routine rather than exceptional.
- Florida
- Georgia
- Alabama
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
Island work
Island projects are a different planning problem rather than a longer version of the same one. Equipment has to be shipped or sourced locally, crews fly, and a forgotten tool is not a forty-minute round trip — it is a week. They are scoped and priced against the actual logistics rather than against a mileage band.
- Puerto Rico
- The U.S. Virgin Islands
- The wider Caribbean
What distance actually changes
- Mobilisation
- The largest single variable on a small scope. On a one-day job four hours out it is frequently larger than the labour.
- Scheduling flexibility
- Close to base, a crew can be moved at short notice. Four states away, the date is the date, and a weather stand-down costs more.
- Equipment
- Specialist hire is sourced near the site rather than driven to it, which changes both cost and lead time.
- Weather exposure
- A long mobilisation into a bad forecast is a decision to make before leaving, not on arrival.
Mobilisation bands are published on the rates page, including the point at which a scope is priced against the actual route rather than a band.
The states named above are where a Florida-based crew most often works. They are a sample rather than a complete list, and the complete list changes with the programme. Telephone with your market and we will say plainly whether we are the right contractor for it.
G 1.1 Routing
A site list is priced differently from a pile of jobs
This is the single largest saving available on multi-site work, and it is worth understanding before comparing two bids.
| Twelve separate jobs | One routed list | |
|---|---|---|
| Mobilisations | 12 | 1–3 |
| Travel days | up to 24 | 2–6 |
| Scheduling | Each site negotiated on its own | One window, sites sequenced inside it |
| Reporting | Twelve separate submissions | One programme, consistent format |
| Weather exposure | Each visit exposed independently | The crew moves to the next workable site |
Illustrative rather than a quotation: the actual saving depends on how tightly the sites cluster and on whether access can be coordinated. It is the first thing we look at on a list.
Tell us the market and the list
Where the structures are, what has to happen at each, and by when. We will tell you whether we are the right contractor for that market, and if we are not, we would rather say so on the first call than on the third week.
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