I think this is rather debatable.?ÿ They trumpet their recent success of gutting the Davis-Bacon Act (with regard to surveyors), thereby reducing the ...
The only way this would sound attractive to me is if they paid a stupid (as in very imprudent) amount of money for your firm up front or over the firs...
I believe this is Walt Robillard's grandson (Nettleman Land Consultants).
@bill93 Exactly.?ÿ Jack Bogle dialed this in with index funds.?ÿ If you're content with average long-term market returns, you set it and forget it.?ÿ ...
@hpalmer I did some googling and found similar results to yours.?ÿ The surveyor rates are much higher than I remember.?ÿ It's been quite a while since...
@jimcox Still have the Peet boot dryer I bought 20 years ago.?ÿ Some of the best money I ever spent.?ÿ Makes a guy feel civilized to pull on dry boots...
If memory serves, the cost for surveyor ratings is essentially the same as drafting/clerical.?ÿ Historically pretty low.?ÿ I guess I would ask the pro...
@allen-wrench Yeah, it's lame.?ÿ For what it's worth, worst case scenario, they'll charge you a $75 late fee (been through that before).?ÿ I was plann...
Might be worth hooking two or three large batteries in parallel to save trips up the mountain.
@ric-moore Maybe, but we cut off our nose to spite our face.?ÿ The result of excluding surveyors from prevailing wage is that surveyors often end up b...
Keep in mind last year's decision.?ÿ The practical effect in my region is that field surveyors on federal projects do not need to be paid prevailing w...
@northernsurveyor Hi Mike, I'd be interested in a copy.?ÿ In the rare event I have to do this, I run CMM in Win32 simulation to do the geodetic COGO.?...
100% this.?ÿ Don't know why some people talk like this is an either/or proposition.?ÿ For heaven's sake, let's walk and chew gum at the same time.
Great story.?ÿ Never had a bad experience with our Troopers.?ÿ Always calm, cool, professional, cordial.
End of an era.?ÿ Survey Pro has been going for, what, 30 years??ÿ Anybody know?
I tend to just commit the law of sines and law of cosines to memory, manipulate and derive the rest.
Classic Robillard.