On the contract locators whom called me immediately after I sent my request for a formal complaint to the Public Resource Commission.
They are going to have lots of fun not talking to me as I'm refusing phone calls from the field manager whom with his number one hand yelled at me, called me a liar, and that the utility companies engineer has no idea what is actually at the location.
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Slow rolling vengeance is fun.....
And effective too apparently.
Bring it ...?ÿ
Talking to them might lead to a faster resolution.
@bill93?ÿ
Done that. Got verbally assaulted. Hence Open the can of here you go deal with the PRC for violation of the rule of law....
Have a nice day!
Reverend Joshua Sloan: Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.
Cable Hogue: Well, that's fair enough with me... just as long as he don't take too long and I can watch.
Utility locate tickets are the biggest scam in our industry. I feel your pain. Give it to them and hold them to the required response time.
@stlsurveyor Remember when Dig-Rite started the "design" ticket??ÿ That's a sham for sure.?ÿ We'd submit a ticket and then all of the sudden we'd start getting faxes with "All Clear".?ÿ Which was BS because we could see evidence of sewers and other utilities on the ground.?ÿ Or they'd take their sweet time getting out there.?ÿ We started telling them we had a backhoe on site that was starting to dig or that we were driving 24" rods around power poles.?ÿ That would usually would expedite their process!
I always report we will be using a backhoe and our work will take one day to complete.?ÿ We will almost always use a backhoe and the work will occur on one day, whether it takes 15 minutes or two hours or more.
@jflamm?ÿ
Yeah.....design locate equals desk top locate, and then having some methhead highschool drop out telling me how the the Electric utility doesn't know anything...blah blah blah....
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I posted to a similar thread in November of 2013 I have suggested several times that surveyors educate their state utility locate authority to surveying requirements. Just another segment of the public that does not understand what we do and how properties are monumented.
Its a continuous improvement process.
Except they have such a high turnover rate from bad leadership and poor practice it never really improves until a big lawsuit happens.
IMHO
the 811 law has unintended consequences in the billions of dollars, I would suppose.
