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9 articles on inventory.

Aug 23, 2026

Equipment Theft and Vandalism in Traffic Control: Reducing a Cost Nobody Budgets

What actually walks off a yard and a live job site, the deterrents that are worth the money, and the paperwork that decides whether you recover anything or just absorb it.

Aug 8, 2026

Equipment Fleet Replacement Planning for Traffic Control Companies

Most traffic control companies replace devices when they break, which means replacement spending is unpredictable and always badly timed. Here is how to build a replacement cycle you can budget.

Aug 8, 2026

Sign Retroreflectivity and Device Condition: When a Device Stops Counting

A faded sign and a scuffed drum are not cosmetic problems — a device that no longer performs is functionally not there. How condition standards work, how to run an inspection that catches decline, and how to make retirement a budget line rather than a surprise.

Aug 8, 2026

Yard Organization for Traffic Control Companies

The yard is where load-out speed, device condition, and inventory accuracy are decided. Here is how to lay one out so morning load-out stops being the bottleneck.

Jul 26, 2026

How Barricade Companies Track Which Devices Are on Which Job Site

The methods traffic control and barricade rental companies actually use to know where every cone, barricade, sign and arrow board is — why yard-count and spreadsheet approaches break down, and what a job-site-anchored inventory system has to do differently.

Jul 25, 2026

Arrow Boards and Portable Message Signs, Explained

What each device is for, where they belong in the zone, how they differ, and why the ones you own are usually the hardest assets in your fleet to keep track of.

Jul 25, 2026

Barricade Rental Management Software: A Buyer's Guide

Renting devices is a different business from selling labor. Here is what barricade rental actually requires from software — multi-yard inventory, recurring billing, kits, loss and damage — and where generic field-service tools stop.

Jul 25, 2026

How to Price Traffic Control Device Rental Rates

Device rental pricing is an asset-return problem, not a market-matching exercise. Here is how to build a rate from replacement cost, utilization, and loss — and why most published rates are unusable.

Jul 21, 2026

Type I, II, and III Barricades: What the Types Actually Mean

How barricade types differ, where each is generally used, why substituting a lighter device is a false economy, and what tracking barricade inventory across yards actually requires.