More Contractors Are Putting Equipment Under Heavy Lock and Key
Dave Markey likes to approach jobsite security the same way he negotiates a big equipment purchase. In every sale, both sides play tug-of-war to shift the risk and they attempt to meet somewhere in the middle. Likewise, theft is a kind of cruel game between property owners and pilferers. "If we make it easy for thieves, then we are taking all the risk," Markey says.
The 59-year-old vice president of American Infrastructure, Worcester, Pa., is in charge of a $130-million fleet of trucks, trailers, off-road machines, portable equipment and small tools. Markey doesnt like to talk too much about the perennial problem of jobsite theft, for fear that unfriendly souls are listening. But he says the firms strategies are getting tougher all the time.