Excavation & Site Prep

Your Trucks Are Rolling Warehouses With No Inventory System

Parts disappear from trucks, techs make extra supply runs, and no one knows what's on which vehicle until it's too late.

Uncle Steve on inventory & parts tracking in excavation & site prep

The Excavation & Site Prep Industry at a Glance

Site preparation and general excavation contractors — grading, foundation excavation, utility trenching. Every job starts with an 811 ticket.

40,000+

US Companies

$1.5M–$12M

Avg. Revenue

5–30

Field Crew Size

5.5%

Growth Rate

First shovel = first locate ticket. If your morning routine is printing tickets, sorting by crew, and hoping the locates are done, you're running a paper process in a $30-billion-damage industry.

Excavation & Site Prep Industry Data & Research

Key statistics shaping the excavation & site prep market today.

$30 billion annual cost of underground utility damage
Common Ground Alliance, 2024
On-time locate delivery rate is only 30–70% across state 811 centers
CGA DIRT Report, 2024

Does This Sound Like Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation?

  • !Techs make supply house runs mid-job
  • !Parts shrinkage on service trucks
  • !No idea what inventory is on which vehicle

The Cost of Doing Nothing

Untracked truck inventory leads to 8–15% parts shrinkage and 2+ hours/week of wasted drive time per tech.

What Excavation & Site Prep Companies Typically Use

BOSS811HeavyJobB2WProcore

These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the inventory & parts tracking gap. That's what we build.

Excavation & Site Prep Operational Challenges

  • 1Every grading and excavation job starts with a locate ticket
  • 2Morning ticket distribution is a paper shuffle
  • 3No real-time visibility into which locates are complete
  • 4Wait time for outstanding locates burns crew and equipment hours

Compliance & Regulations

  • A811 mandatory notification before excavation
  • BOSHA excavation safety (29 CFR 1926 Subpart P)
  • CState-specific locate ticket validity and positive response
  • DStormwater/erosion control documentation
Common roles:Owner/OperatorProject ManagerForemanEquipment Operator

How We Fix Inventory & Parts Tracking for Excavation & Site Prep — No ReKeying

1

Map Your Workflow

We study exactly where inventory & parts tracking happens in your excavation & site prep operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.

2

Build a Working Prototype

Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.

3

Prove It Before You Pay

You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the inventory & parts tracking problem, you don't pay.

Get No ReKeying for Your Excavation & Site Prep Operation — Free Prototype

Tell us about your operation and we'll build you a working solution — no commitment, no credit card.

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Inventory & Parts Tracking Problems for Excavation & Site Prep Companies | Simply Connected Systems