4X Growth in 3 Years: Barricade's Scaling Success with Assignar
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Paper & Pulp
Use Cases
- Time Sensitive Networking
- Traffic Monitoring
About The Customer
The Barricade Company is a provider of traffic control services to construction zones in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company ensures worker and public safety with barricades, cones, trench plates, and flagger services. They have 40 employees and 20 subcontractors who handle 90 to 100 traffic setups per day. The company has experienced rapid growth, doubling their business in 2019 and again in 2022. However, this growth presented challenges, particularly with their paper-based system for tracking jobs and maintaining records. The company needed a solution that could keep up with their high-volume needs and provide a reliable way to maintain and retrieve records.
The Challenge
The Barricade Company, a traffic control service provider in Las Vegas, Nevada, was facing challenges with its rapid year-over-year growth. The company's site jobs, which involve laying out and picking up equipment, were tracked using paper time cards. Each crew member could handle 15-20 jobs daily, each requiring its own time card entry. This paper-based system was becoming increasingly cumbersome with the company's growth, necessitating more administrators for data entry, a larger office, and significantly more time. Additionally, in a city known for its litigious nature, maintaining critical information on paper records was risky. The company had 40 employees and 20 subcontractors handling 90 to 100 traffic setups per day, and the paper-based system was proving inadequate for their high-volume needs.
The Solution
Barricade turned to Assignar, a customizable platform that could keep up with their high-volume needs. With Assignar forms, Barricade was able to build a system that fit their team without the need for IT or developers. The platform allowed them to digitize their operations, eliminating the need for paper records and enabling them to handle their workload more efficiently. Assignar also provided a reliable way to keep meticulous records and retrieve specific information to counter erroneous lawsuits, a critical need in the litigious environment of Las Vegas. The platform also eliminated the need for back and forth trips to the office for timesheets and job packets, and removed the need to hire full-time staff to sort through papers.
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