Shorten site ramp-up
Each ramp-up trip runs $500 or more loaded. Cut 2 to 3 per hire. New crew still arrive knowing your tracks and hazards.
Crews leave cars in the foul and build trains in eighteen moves when nine would do. The old-heads who know better are retiring.
Your crews rehearse your real track layout first.
Texas Materials crews learn Marble Falls before they drive it. The real track layout, switch points, derails and hazards sit on a screen, so new crew and contractors skip the escort laps in a pickup, and supervisors plan the switching moves before anyone steps on the property. They do it on an Interactive Digital Replica of the quarry.
Texas Materials Marble Falls Quarry, a CRH company
Crews rehearse the same site they work each shift. Real layout, clearances, derails and spots.
Each ramp-up trip runs $500 or more loaded. Cut 2 to 3 per hire. New crew still arrive knowing your tracks and hazards.
Crews plan the moves in the briefing, before they walk out to the job. Two hours a week of switching time per crew is about $15,600 a year.
One non-injury yard collision or derailment runs about $14,000, and it's FRA-reportable above $12,600.
Bring your toughest switching job. Walk it before your crew does.
You'll be meeting with
Stefan Haas-HeyeCustomer Solutions, Heartwood
Tara ScarrowDirector of Customer Success, Heartwood