Scheduling Roof Crews in South Florida Turning Into a Total Shitshow
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SlateSlinger6🔧 ApprenticeOP5d
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Man, trying to keep the schedule straight for asphalt shingle replacements with this heat is impossible, crews showing up late because of traffic jams from all the damn construction. We've got jobs stacked up from storm season prep, and half the time my helpers are calling in because the humidity wipes them out before lunch. Switched to using Jobber for routing last month, but it still glitches when I try to overlay the weather forecasts, ends up double-booking crews on high-wind days. The worst is when a hail repair gets pushed back and the client starts bitching about delays, like we control the thunderstorms. I watched a video from The Contractor Fight last week where the guy talked about similar scheduling nightmares, made me feel a bit better but doesn't fix the crap. NGL, I'm about ready to just go solo again and forget managing a team of five.
pushed my south florida crew to six figures this season by starting jobs at 5am and knocking out the tear-offs before the heat hits noon, now we're ahead on every damn schedule.
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MowAndGo⭐ Expert5d
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south florida heat turns every schedule into a clusterfuck, crews bailing by 10am and i'm left holding the bag with pissed clients. jobber's a band-aid on a gushing wound, doesn't touch the real problem of this godforsaken humidity.
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GreenthumbGreg⚒️ Journeyman5d
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yeah man, south florida traffic during construction season has me yelling at my dashboard every damn day, cant even get the crew to a simple shingle job without losing two hours.
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DoorOpenerPro2⚒️ Journeyman5d
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dude, south florida scheduling is a nonstop shitshow, especially with all this heat makin crews drag their asses. i feel you on the traffic and humidity knockin em out before noon, been there way too many times. jobber glitches suck, but at least its better than tryin to do it all on paper. hang in there, solo might sound good now but that team of five will pay off when the storm jobs roll in.
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DrainDiver5⚒️ Journeyman5d
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same shit here in south florida, that humidity has me and the boys dragging ass before noon too, makes solo sound tempting as hell.
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PipeDreamer12⚒️ Journeyman5d
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you got any tricks for motivating the crew when that humidity hits em like a truck before noon? i tried water coolers on site but they still drag ass half the time. whats your go-to for keeping everyone on schedule without yelling all day?
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ZapMaster3⚒️ Journeyman2d
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bro, south florida scheduling sounds like herding cats in a hurricane - i tried Jobber once and it double-booked me into a client's pool party, total clown show 😂
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CanvasKing6⚒️ Journeyman2d
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south florida traffic is a nightmare, aint it? how often do those jobber glitches actually screw up your whole day, or is it just the occasional double-book? ive had crews stuck for hours because of some roadwork on i-95. you thought about switching to something like housecall pro for the routing instead?
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V2119🌱 Newcomer2d
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try switching to acculynx for roofing schedules, it integrates weather pulls way better than jobber and cuts down on those double books. set your alerts for humidity over 80% so your crew knows to pack extra water before heading out. i've seen it shave a couple hours off planning time on storm prep jobs.
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DuctDoctor8⚒️ Journeyman2d
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don't even think about ditching the team for solo work down there, i saw a guy try it during last storm season and he ended up hospitalized from heat exhaustion with no one to cover his jobs.
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FumeFighter2⚒️ Journeyman2d
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solo work in south florida is straight up suicide, storm season turns grown men into heatstroke zombies. hire a crew or get out of the game, anything less is just playing russian roulette with your life.
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SweepKing⚒️ Journeyman1d
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bro, south florida heat's turned more good roofers into fried zombies than any storm ever has. been there, chugging gatorade by the case just to make it through lunch.
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MoveItMuscle3⚒️ Journeyman1d
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try slotting all your south florida jobs between december and april to dodge the worst humidity and storms, cuts my double-books by half every season.
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JackOfAllTrades4⚒️ Journeyman1d
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south florida traffic is a goddamn nightmare, had a whole crew stuck on i-95 for three hours last week and lost half the day. jobber's routing sucks when you factor in the rain delays, might as well just pencil it old school.
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DoorJammer2⚒️ Journeyman5d
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Same here, feels like herding cats in a hurricane every damn day.
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RootRotRider⚒️ Journeyman5d
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How do you even get crews to show up on time with all that rain? Mine just bail half the time.
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SudsAndScrub⚒️ Journeyman2d
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yeah man, my crew showed up two hours late today because of the rain, and now the homeowners pissed cuz were behind schedule.
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JoistJockey6🔧 Apprentice5d
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Try integrating a weather API into Jobber, it helped me cut overlaps by 30% last season.
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SpringSlinger⚒️ Journeyman5d
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Weather API? That's some fancy BS, doesn't help when the inspector shows up late anyway.
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FlushMaster5⚒️ Journeyman5d
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Fuck these big roofing software companies charging an arm and a leg for features that barely work in real conditions.
