That's very much the exception to the rule. He must be one of the few good employees.
Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:59 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > thats crazy, those trucks are everywhere you turn. Rates must be good. > > Ive never had a bad experience with them, but Ive only had locates done > for small digs and the potholes showed within tolerance. They actually > saved us a cut on our mediacom fiber because mediacom didnt even have it > documented. USIC guy happened to still be out there when the city was > putting the backhoe in right above where we knew it was. USIC guy located > it and they were gonna dig right through it. Mediacom gave us a "oh, my bad" > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 1:46 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Steve, if you haven't heard the complaints you straight up have not been >> listening. USIC is simply horrible. Awful. Disgustingly terrible. >> >> They don't mark for months on end. Their marks are not even 50% accurate >> (my house they labeled the gas line on the wrong end of the property, I >> could have guessed between the tap and meter infinitely better; where they >> located power they were off by 48 inches (18 is margin of error), and the >> list goes on). >> >> Today I got ~50 tickets for *one residential road* from a competitor. >> She says it's so "USIC actually does their job". She had to list literally >> every address on the road rather than listing the ROW between two points >> like everyone else does. >> >> Josh Luthman >> 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 10:22 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Ive never heard complaints or had complaints on their locates. Whats >>> your beef with them? If they have GPS CAD they mark points and dont do a >>> physical locate, is that been a problem? >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 9:12 AM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> USIC... SUUUUXXXXXXX >>>> >>>> >>>> Your neighborhood methhead is more reliable than USIC. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Mike Hammett >>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >>>> >>>> >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From: *"Nate Burke" <[email protected]> >>>> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> >>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, January 4, 2022 1:47:39 PM >>>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Illinois - JULIE membership costs >>>> >>>> I can't speak to USIC, as we do all our own locates. I wouldn't think >>>> that JULIE would care who you are, as long as you pay your dues, and give >>>> them the map. We have one of our areas where the conduit that runs along >>>> the edge of a private property between 2 buildings, and we gave them that >>>> map, and get locates for it. >>>> >>>> On 1/4/2022 1:29 PM, Steve Jones wrote: >>>> >>>> I havent heard back from JULIE, USIC reached back out and said JULIE >>>> might not let a private line in the locate database. >>>> >>>> What Im looking to achieve is third party notification via JULIE with >>>> third party locate by USIC. I assume thats the standard scenario. This is >>>> two duct paths that will traverse public roads. Ive never done any of this >>>> so Just wanting to make sure the client has the least impact and no >>>> surprise costs >>>> I have to submit the engineering plan to the city, the client has to >>>> get a license agreement with them, then they will get a ROW easement. That >>>> seems to be going pretty straight forward. The big issue is locates, these >>>> are both maintenance heavy roads with waste sewer, storm sewer, multiple >>>> telecom, water mains and laterals, etc and they seem to always be digging >>>> both sections up for one reason or another >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> We are a JULIE member. They are easy to work with when you call >>>>> them. You give them map coordinates, basically a Google Earth outline, >>>>> and >>>>> then you get notified anytime something gets called in for that area. I >>>>> don't' have the bill in front of me, but I think it's ~$150/year and then >>>>> $1 or $2 per ticket. The bigger the area the more tickets you'll get, and >>>>> what's going on in that area. The 5G installations are generating about >>>>> 10-20 tickets per antenna build. Remember, everyone calls JULIE, so if >>>>> you're in a residential area, you'll get lots of sprinkler/mailbox/CATV >>>>> locate tickets. If it touches your area in any way, you'll get notified. >>>>> If you're in an easement behind a house, and they're putting in a new >>>>> mailbox by their driveway, the address touches your area, so you'll get >>>>> notified. >>>>> >>>>> On 1/4/2022 12:35 PM, Steve Jones wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is anybody here a JULIE member? >>>>> Im looking to find the costs in general for a specific private line to >>>>> be in the notification database >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> AF mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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