The painting is done, the floors are waxed, and the overall plant and facilities have a new face lift for the 2004 season. 

It's hard to believe it's been ten years since opening the Ames RM facility on Dayton Ave.  We are looking forward to the upcoming season as we have some good work lined up to get us out of the gates and running. 

Since last fall we have picked up close to 20,000 cy's that should begin this spring and go thru the summer.  We are still waiting to hear on the "containment" concrete for the USDA Large Animal Facility (almost 7000 cy's).  Story Construction has the bid package for this phase, and I have been working closely with them on this mix design.  I won't go in depth on the ingredients for this mix, but I would call it a witch's brew.  I'll be surprised if it doesn't come out of the trucks smoking and bubbling.  The noncontainment side of the job has another 1100 cy's and uses the "imported" sand Wendling Quarries supplies from the Hess pit.  As you can see, this will help our trucking division also.  

From speaking with the other foreman, it sounds like all the divisions in Ames should be pushing early on the current work load.  It looks like we will be running with 14 trucks again, and all of them will be manned and running.  I have to replace three drivers, so if anyone knows of anybody in this area, I would sure look forward to speaking with them. 

Let's all look out for each other and have a safe and productive season.