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Our Trusses are Second to None

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At Simkins Hallin we’ve been manufacturing trusses for over two decades. You’d think that virtually unanimous positive feedback from our customers would be enough, but it just isn’t. To be sure we’re doing absolutely everything possibly to insure the accuracy and consistency of our products we voluntarily subject our trusses to a regular and ridged third party inspection service.

Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TP), is an independent, third party company who provides the highest quality-assurance services to truss manufacturing facilities.

Next time you order a set of Trusses from Simkins Hallin, look for the TP stamp of approval on our truss labels. It’s your assurance that every truss you receive from our manufacturing facility is engineered and manufactured with the most up-to-date practices available.

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GPS Delivery Tracking

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The new normal for the construction industry is on-budget and on-time. Schedules are tight, labor and equipment are expensive, and you need to know when your product will be onsite and ready to install. In fact, a very common call for our sales people and Jake at the dispatch desk is… “Where’s my stuff?”

In an effort to better serve our customers and find even greater efficiencies we’ve installed GPS equipment in every one of our delivery and service vehicles. This means that if your product has left the yard any salesperson can locate the delivery right on their computer screen. No more transfers or time on hold; in minutes we can check the exact location, direction, and speed of the delivery giving you an accurate ETA for your product.

This system also helps us maintain our fleet, improves the safety of our drivers, and helps us optimize our routes for fuel efficiency. These things indirectly benefit you, our customer by reducing overhead and helping us keep prices down.

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Truss Labels?

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Yep, for your convenience we put relevant information on a waterproof, weatherproof label and apply it to each and every truss that comes off our production line.

Jobsites can be a special kind of orchestrated chaos. The last thing you need is a bunch of random trusses dropped off at your site. Figuring out what truss goes where isn’t the kind of puzzle anyone wants to try to unravel while you’re paying for a crane, trying to optimize the weather window, and trying to meet your deadline.

Our trusses are clearly labeled to indicate name, length, type, basic engineering specs, and manufacturing date. When combined with the truss layout you receive from your truss designer, the mystery of what truss goes where is eliminated.

Our long-term truss customers are already familiar with and very much appreciate our labeling. New customers and builders considering ordering trusses from us should factor this into their decision making process. Not only are our trusses very competitively priced, we’ll save you valuable time on the job site.