Trucks & TransportationSunrise Unlimited, Mays Landing, NJ, is a full service landscape and construction company formed in 1982. It provides a number of services including land clearing, site work, excavating, trucking, utilities and hydro-seeding. It is currently working on a 50-plus acre residential project, which will consist of 88 homes when completed.
To date, the contractor has cleared the site, stripped and stockpiled thousands of yards of topsoil and completed all sewer and storm pipe work that consisted of over 10,000 linear yds. of pipe. It has also completed a 3-acre infiltration system and detention basin, which will help with drainage throughout the development.
Sunrise Unlimited is now focused on the project's next phase, which is backfilling around the housing unit foundations and starting the initial landscaping by spreading topsoil around the completed homes. In the past, it would use a skid steer, articulated loader and two tandem dump trucks, along with extra labor to complete these projects.
However, in early 2007, Mike Aspinwall, president of Sunrise Unlimited, was developing a 10-year business strategy plan for the company, and sought to migrate away from labor to equipment to meet the needs of the construction and landscaping markets.
"I looked at my equipment costs, equipment lifespan and how I could use the equipment for both landscaping and construction applications down the road," he states. "I needed a fast, light and versatile piece of equipment that could handle light construction and landscaping projects and at the same time be operator friendly."
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