How SB Scraper Got Its Start

If you had an employee that came to you and said that he has an idea that will save you 30% or more of his time doing the job that he is doing for you, would you listen to him?

You would probably ask yourself some questions such as the two below.

First, how long has he been doing his job?

Second, does he really understand his job?

If the answer is he’s been doing the job for years, and understands the job, then you might say let’s see if he can actually make his suggestion work.

This brings us to the story behind one of our founders, Harvey Reyes, who once was that worker that had been on the job of heavy equipment operator for years and knew the tasks involved in his job as an operator and sought a piece of equipment that could improve it.

Harvey has been an operator for numerous companies and has been an owner operator for 20 years. During this time he kept thinking about how he could improve productivity in the use of the box scraper he operated. In his observation of the motor blade on his job he realized that it would be possible to develop a superior product that would do what the motor blade does and even more and came up with the SB Scraper. This piece of equipment resulted in greater productivity that made the bottom line more profitable.

If you had an employee come up with an improvement like this wouldn’t you be onboard with it?