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Re: 811 UG 50 state digging laws

The real truth about this is that, the UTILITY companies are responsible to locate their facilities and the state governments allow them to get away with hiring a 3rd party vendor to do the actual physical work. this is unacceptable cause then the game that then gets played is that the UTILITY companies push all liability and thus could care less about the safety of the general public. that's why everytime there is a utility damage, and it turns out that the 3rd party vendor didn't locate correctly, they should be heavily fined. and somehow make it so they cant pass that cost to the vendor. lets also remember there used to be a time where the utility companies would hire people in house to locate their facilities. it usually would end up being someone who was long in the tooth who had plenty of experience and would have 20-30 years of experience understanding where the facilities are. now with 3rd party vendors... pay is on the cheap... so that is what you get!!!

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Posted in reply to: Re: 811 UG 50 state digging laws by WorldofUgcatv
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