Customer Profile: Earle Asphalt Company

Earle Asphalt Company Founded: 1968 Type of Work: General Contracting, Site Work,New Construction, Re-construction,Milling and Paving Company Size: $15- 30 Million Number of Jobs Bid Annually: 250 - 350 Location: Farmingdale, NJ

"I've been using HeavyBid for ten years now, and I've found that the benefit of the system is how easy it is to use and the compatibility to work with other programs for exporting and importing to spreadsheet, accounting, and scheduling programs," says Roy Huemer, Project Manager/Estimator for Earle Asphalt Co."

Roy has gotten just as much satisfaction from HeavyJob. "When you're running night crews, it gets very hard between the project manager and the superintendent to communicate because he's asleep while I'm awake and vice versa. When we started using HeavyJob, it really made a difference. Now, with HeavyJob, I'm able to go down the daily logs, read the information, and easily find out how the job is going. We've got the note indexes set up for any issues, print out some nice reports, and get all the information. HeavyJob really helps things get back into the office in a clear, concise way that is usable project management information. And with the daily production information, you know what's happening on the job, what you're expecting per day, what productions you're hitting per day, you know if you have a problem, and you 're able to deal with that as soon as possible".

Roy has seen his "ability to produce private entity bids triple" with HCSS training. "On-site training paid for itself on the first day," says Roy. "We needed help with translating our payroll information from HeavyJob to our accounting system, Cheetah. Within an hour, the trainer helped the person who was responsible for that, taking her workload from a 90% manual entry, 10% automated and switched those percentages. Now its 10% manual, 90% automated. He took a two day job for her and changed it to two hours!"

The Annual User's Group Meetings provide a way for Huemer to improve his skills with HeavyBid and HeavyJob. "Every time I come to Houston, I learn something that will speed up my job, speed up the other people that I work with, and eliminate duplication of effort. I sat down with one of the programmers, Jim Spence, for two hours with a bunch of questions, walked through them with him, and made sure that I was looking at things in the proper way. To get that kind of interaction with the designer of the system and to have input on the program that you are using is invaluable. I have said before, 'I understand you [HCSS] aren't in the business for writing programs for Earle Asphalt, but it tends to end up that way.' I like the fact that every time I need help with something, all I have to do is give you a call."