TIL that a single late concrete truck can idle a 30 person crew for $9,000 an hour, saw it on a dispatch sheet in Phoenix

Uma Rivera · 2026-10-10T02:55:04.948443+00:00

I was going over dispatch sheets at our Phoenix yard and the dispatcher showed me how one late mixer cascades through everything. If a truck shows up 45 minutes late, the pump crew, the finishers, and the batch plant guys all sit on their thumbs, and he said the going rate for that idle time runs about $9,000 an hour when you add it all up. I did the math on one bad pour day and it was over $40,000 gone before lunch. What got me was that nobody tracks it on a form, it just lives in the dispatcher's head. We started logging truck arrival times on a shared sheet after that. Does anyone else here keep real numbers on idle time from late deliveries?

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TIL that a single late concrete truck can idle a 30 person crew for $9,000 an hour, saw it on a dispatch sheet in Phoenix | Construction Logistics - Chatter Central