Rural Technical Assistance Program newsletter, 01/1989

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RURAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Newsletter
PROGRAM FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION AND THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA
January  1989
GRAB YOUR COFFEE CAN:
FIGURE LOST GRAVEL COST
(reprinted from Nebraska T2
newsletter)
Question:  How do you save $50,000
per motor grader operator per year?
Answer:  Train your operators to
properly pick up windrows of
gravel.
Some do-it yourself coffee can
research by Ed Wootton, of
Nebraska's T2 Center, led him to
the above conclusion.
As he watched motor grader
operators at work, Ed wondered
about the cost of the gravel lost
off the toe of moldboards as
windrows were picked up.  So he
measured one foot in the ditch and
put all the spilled gravel he found
in that area in a coffee can.  When
he weighed the can he found he had