17 day Hwy repair - $ 5 Mil bonus

A Miracle-Worker Highway Man Rides the Bonus Train

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A Miracle-Worker Highway Man Rides the Bonus Train
By CAROL POGASH
Published: June 2, 2007
A company that fixed a mangled freeway worked so fast that some residents have recalibrated their respect for the California Department of Transportation.

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The state estimated that repairs to the 165-foot-long ramp between Interstates 80 and 580 would take 50 days and cost $5.2 million. For every day short of the June 26 deadline, it promised a $200,000 bonus, not to exceed a total of $5 million. The highest bid came in at $6.4 million. Mr. Myers’s company, C. C. Myers Inc., won with the lowest bid — $867,075 — and completed the project in 17 days, winning the full $5 million.

Shop drawings were approved in hours, not months, and state inspectors were flown to Stinger Welding to oversee quality control. Mr. Douglas, who kept his shop running 20 hours a day, put two drivers in each truck so one could sleep while the other drove the steel girders to California. Rather than wait until all 12 girders arrived, Mr. Myers’s crews formed the deck in parts, pouring the concrete soon after the last girders were delivered. From the start, Mr. Myers said, his crews worked 12-hour shifts around the clock.

Comment: Excellent article about entrepreneurial business experience and rewarding employees.