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Originally Posted by GGG
One big problem is the efficiency of the night shift is roughly 50% to 70% of what the day shift is. Taking a little longer can make the project cheaper. Also these magic skilled trades people don't exist right now. They are in FrtMac building oilsands right now. So even expanding your bid base you are looking at significantly increasing your labour cost beyond just the shift premium for the night shift.
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Yup, exactly. Also, to run more crews, you need more workers. When you have to hire workers they tend not to be as good on average, because you tend to keep your best guys. However, to get workers at all, you have to offer them a premium.
Also, if it was price competitive for non local companies to take these jobs, they would try, nothing is stopping them from doing so. The problem is that you are generally paying room and board on top of wages for your workers, increasing your cost. And then it's hard to compete.
It simply is more expensive to do projects in a rush. Subtrades will charge more to do the work as well, for the same reasons. When it makes sense to go 24/7, it happens, but most of the time, there isn't much reason to pay the premium.