2019 Sub Contractor
Award Recipient
Jeff Johnson
Trafficade
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Jeff Johnson had the
desire as a child to own his own barricade company. He was inspired and
motivated to start young, so young that he founded the company in 1990 while
in high school out of his parents' backyard with a handful of homemade
barricades. He printed flyers and mailed them out to small excavating and
parking lot maintenance contractors, and did follow-up calls ensuring them he
could provide better customer service catered to their specific needs.
With this mindset
and determination to provide superior service, Trafficade began to grow
slowly and steady each year by customer referrals alone. Employees were
friends and family, and his father Dennis joined the company full-time in
1993. He attended both Mesa Community College and Arizona State University
while working long hours around the clock to build the business. As the years
passed, Trafficade began to grow with strategic goals and vision to better
respond to the market.
Today, Trafficade is
a diversified company that employs 300 people with 5 operating divisions and 6
branch locations throughout Arizona. The company continues to grow each year
and has a customer centric culture that is known throughout the industry, and
a brand name that is known for quality and prompt, dependable, and friendly
service. Johnson is currently serving his second interval on the board of the
American Traffic Safety Services Association, and actively supports the
American Traffic Safety Services Foundation and the local 100 Club.
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Fringe Benefits in the Prevailing Wage World
The purpose of this article is to increase the awareness of the requirements related to federally funded Davis Bacon construction projects. Established in 1974, Interstate Mechanical Corp. is a mechanical contractor located in Phoenix, Arizona that specializes in HVAC within commercial construction. In the past year, we were contracted to perform specialty welding on large piping at a power plant located west of Phoenix. This project was federally financed and therefore required us to pay the prevailing wage and fringe benefits to all laborers and mechanics as specified under the Davis Bacon Act. The Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division (DOL) is a federal agency that enforces compliance with all provisions of the Davis Bacon Act. The DOL notified us that we were the subject of an investigation aimed to review compliance on this specific project. We were required to provide various records and allow for our current and former employees to be interviewed by federal invest...
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