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Planning is one area that can help most business. An owner with good knowledge of his or her crews, time lines, advance sales and organizational skills should have time lines down for ordering, material scheduling. I have often wondered why so many of us send trucks out to pick up material, I always had it delivered to sites. Even with deliveries running anywhere from $100 to $300 per load what can that one driver install in that time? You will save $$ in the long run by having it delivered. Sure it's nice to go out and pick up a small order but what are you losing by doing that? Production is still the name of our game, if your not producing $$ but being a delivery person then you need to rethink. Your suppliers should know what you want and what quality you expect. If they don't a rejected load will wake them up. I often hear of lost days and lost hours, rain and poor weather can open up new jobs, spreading out the jobs (having more than two or three open at any one time can make these day productive. Sure you can't do finish work but excavations, layouts, larger plants can all be done in poor weather.
What I'm trying to say is think outside the box.
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