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2019 Sub Contractor Award Recipient Jeff Johnson Trafficade       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.