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STRACTA for road construction
Road work spreads crews, machines and trucks across several sites and stages at once. Set up around your stages, crews and equipment, STRACTA keeps every assignment on one board, brings the day's issues in from the field and shows each project's production against its baseline.
How it runs
One plan, from the office to the ground.
Road crews work across several stages and sites at once.
Every crew, machine and truck is assigned on one board, so the dispatcher can see what is already placed before assigning more. Foremen report the day's issues from their phones, the office sees them as attention items, and each project's production builds against its baseline.
Built around your operation
Every STRACTA client gets a version shaped to its crews, roles and workflow, set up with your own projects, crews, machines and trucks. Tell STRACTA what you need in a sentence, and it goes on the board.
How STRACTA fits your operationThe problem
Where the day usually breaks down.
What tends to go wrong when the plan lives in phone calls, group texts and paper.
One set of crews, several sites
Crews, rollers and operators move between stages and jobs. When the plan sits in several places, the same machine or person gets promised to two foremen.
Daily issues lost in phone calls
A buried utility, a soft subgrade or a machine down gets called in, then forgotten. Without a record, nobody can explain the lost hours a week later.
Progress that waits for paperwork
If production comes back on paper, the project manager can't see how a job is tracking against its quantities until someone types up the notes.
In STRACTA
The workflows that carry the day.
Each one is shaped to how your crews work. Follow the link to see it in full.
Daily Dispatch
Assign crews across every site
See every project on one board, with the people, crews, machines and trucks already placed, before you assign the next one. Publish once for every site.
Explore Daily DispatchField Reporting
Daily issues reach the office
Foremen report field issues from the phone. They appear as attention items for authorized users, so the office can respond and the record stays with the day.
Explore Field ReportingProjects
Production against the baseline
Each project carries its production baseline, progress and daily quantities, so the project manager can see how each job is tracking.
Explore ProjectsReports and History
A record of every road day
Published revisions, production entries and field issues stay in Reports and History. Supported data can be exported for your own reporting.
Explore Reports and History
Terminology
The words on the job.
Plain meanings for the terms on this page, for anyone new to the trade.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Station (Sta. 1+200) | A point along the road measured from the project's starting point: 1+200 is 1,200 m along. Stations mark where each day's work starts and stops. |
| Stage | A part of the contract built as its own phase, often with its own traffic arrangement. |
| Lift | One compacted layer of asphalt or granular material. |
| Granular A and Granular BOntario usage | Aggregate classes used for road base and subbase. Common in Ontario. |
| Milling | Removing the existing asphalt with a cold planer before new asphalt goes down. The millings are trucked away. |
| Traffic control layout | The approved arrangement of signs, devices and traffic control persons for a work zone. |
| Baseline | The planned quantity for a project over time. Progress is compared against it. |
Trade words change by region. Terms tagged Ontario usage are how they are commonly said in Ontario. Elsewhere the same float is a lowboy in the US and a low loader in the UK, and US crews count asphalt in tons rather than tonnes.
A day in STRACTA
One day, hour by hour.
How the plan, the field and the record connect across one working day.
Example dayThree road jobs, from the morning publish to tomorrow's grader move.
The dispatcher publishes three road jobs: an excavator, grader, roller and six broker tri-axles on Quarry Line, the paving crew on Mill Run Road, and a shoulder crew on Sideroad 15.
Foreman Ana R. checks My Day: on site 7:00 AM at Quarry Line, Sta. 2+100 to 2+450, Granular B from the pit. She acknowledges.
An old culvert that isn't on the drawings turns up at Sta. 2+310. Ana reports it from her phone, and it shows in the office as needing attention.
The dispatcher sends the excavator to the ditch at Sta. 2+600 for the rest of the day and publishes an update. Affected users get an in-app notification.
Ana records 410 t of Granular B placed, with hours and photos. The project manager sees Quarry Line's progress against its baseline.
Tomorrow takes shape: the grader is scheduled to move on a float to Mill Run Road, available for a 7:00 AM start.
Roles
Who uses it every day.
Each role sees its own part of the same plan.
Office · desktop
Operations managers
Every crew, machine and truck on one board, and field issues in one list.
Works in Overview and Intelligence · Daily Dispatch · Equipment Moves
Office · desktop
Dispatchers
Build the day, publish it, and publish the change when the day changes.
Works in Daily Dispatch · Broker Trucks · Company Fleet
Office · desktop
Project managers
Production against the baseline, from the field's own daily records.
Works in Projects · Daily Production · Documents
Field · phone
Foremen and supervisors
Your crew's day on your phone: see it, acknowledge it, report back.
Works in My Day · Field Reporting · Daily Production
FAQ
Common questions.
Can we run several road jobs and crews at once?
Yes. Every project for the day sits on one dispatch board with its crew, equipment, company trucks and broker trucks. Each foreman sees their own published assignment in My Day.
Can we keep the traffic control layout with the job?
Yes. Documents keeps project files and photos with the project, so an approved layout sits with the job's dispatch and production record.
How do we see whether a job is on track?
Each project shows production against its baseline, built from the quantities foremen record each day. Field issues that need attention show in one list for authorized users.
Can foremen report from the jobsite?
Yes. Foremen use a simplified phone interface with five tabs: My Day, Report, Chat, Tasks and More. They report field issues and record quantities, hours and photos from there.
Other trades
STRACTA for other trades.
Asphalt paving contractors
Crews, plant timing, broker trucks and tonnes placed, on one published plan.
Civil contractors
Field teams, equipment, materials and reporting across many small sites.
Excavation and earthworks
Excavators, operators, trucks and float moves, planned and recorded.
Multi-crew contractors
Many crews, many jobsites, and one plan where everyone sees their part.
See it with your own crews and jobs.
Bring a real day from your company to the demo: the projects, crews, machines and trucks you would put on tomorrow's board.