Raucous roll-out

Mornings at Canete Landscape were “organized chaos” for President and CEO Tom Canete – more chaos than organization.

His 4-acre site in Wayne, New Jersey, has onsite diesel fuel tanks, multiple bins for dumping yard waste and a garden center full of plants, bulk materials and everything else crews need. But getting everyone fueled, loaded and on the road was hectic.

“Trying to get 75 men out of here in 35 trucks every morning is a lot of work,” Canete says. “We had trucks backing into each other, forklifts running around, a line of people waiting to get loaded. When you calculate all the money it costs to keep guys hanging around the yard waiting, it’s $12 here, $15 there. It doesn’t take long to see all that payroll standing around.”

Some days, crews didn’t leave the shop until 8 a.m., an hour after clocking in.

Click here to read how Canete made changes to his company's roll out in our September issue.