Here’s another installment of innovation on the front lines. This is an all-purpose outside utilities construction trailer:
This apparatus is designed to be connected to a truck and then hauled into the field by the employees who work in our Outside Utilities Division. These are the guys that fix water mains, sewer lines, and storm sewer intakes (among other things) morning, noon, or night; in the summer and in the he winter. If it’s a utility and it’s outside, these guys will fix it.
And in this photo is everything they need to fix it – whatever it happens to be that day. There is a concrete mixer. There are the concrete manhole donuts. Shovels, saws, rakes, picks, and wheelbarrows. Everything they need to do their work.
The best thing about this all-purpose work trailer is that our employees designed it and built it. They saw a need; devised a solution to the need; and then carried out the solution. Their solution helps them work more efficiently and effectively in the field, and helps them get more done in the limited construction season that we enjoy in Minnesota.
I’ll say it again. We are very well served here by the men and women work in the front lines of our organization. They are innovators and hard workers. We’re lucky to have them.
