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2005 April
- Our industry does not have any "Powerful People," but we can make a difference in our industry by meeting with our legislators locally. We do not need to be powerful to make a difference.
- Like the grassroots in your lawn, component manufacturers are many and mostly small, but in aggregate, our influence can be powerful.
Article
2005 April
- Bob Becht, "Mr. Truss Photo," takes digital technology to plant safety.
- Showing safety and health issues in a PowerPoint® presentation helps the staff create innovative policies to improve workplace safety.
Article
2005 April
- Three basic questions can help a homeowner determine whether or not a wall is load bearing.
- A carpenter or engineer should be consulted before a homeowner proceeds with a partition wall removal.
Article
2005 March
- WTCA meetings give you access to people with dozens of different ways of thinking about many of the exact same problems you face every day, at a very low cost, compared to consulting services.
- Get your MCA using the excellent management development tools a WTCA meeting provides.
- Gain the ability to better predict your future based on WTCA meeting discussions.
Article
2005 March
- Many employers won’t hire ex-felons.
- The industry has a chronic shortage of skilled truss technicians, so setting up a prison design department was the perfect solution for Stark Truss.
- The truss industry has several success stories of helping former felons reintegrate into life.
Article
2005 March
- Differential deflection is not a structural problem, but can be a significant appearance issue.
- Designing the roof or floor system to account for dead and live load deflections of adjacent trusses is critical to providing sound solutions.
- Strongback bridging can help distribute loads and reduce deflection issues.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- Are you seeing the same objections to wall panels that you had with selling trusses?
- Labor demographics today will drive wall panel sales much like labor savings drove truss sales in the 1950s.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- Did you know that you should drive an empty forklift backward UP an incline and forward DOWN an incline?
- The building components industry provides the ultimate fork lift truck lifting, driving and loading challenge due to the wide variety of load types.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- WTCA has a great deal of information that can help make the inspection of trusses easier to understand and perform.
- Truss designers and truss manufacturers only provide individual truss inspection information.
- The roof or floor truss system inspection information must come from the owner, builder/framer or building designer.