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Doosan Wheel Loaders Help Tufts Inc. Add Services, Keep Employees The company works for both contractors and homeowners, preparing sites for construction and installation of water and sewer services. It also does demolition and basement and road excavation. • Soil remediation Tufts uses its wheel loaders and excavators to remove unwanted or contaminated soil and sand, so that it can be properly disposed of or cleansed for reuse. • Trucking services The company’s fleet of During warm weather months, Tufts Inc. offers a variety of services such as loadtrucks hauls recycling mateing and hauling fill, stone, gravel and loam. rials, including contaminated soil and crushed glass, to For the first 20 years Frank Spinosa approved disposal sites and delivers was in the snow removal business, he clean fill, stone, gravel and loam to contypically followed the same routine — struction sites. hire and train a group of new employ• Equipment rentals ees in the fall, let them all go at the end Loaders and excavators, along with a of the snow season and start all over licensed operator, are available for again the next fall. Some of his crew daily, weekly and monthly rentals. The (usually construction workers) would company also provides on-site service come back; others would not. when equipment is rented. “Five years ago I decided I was getTufts has done projects ranging from ting tired of looking for qualified help moving a few wheelbarrows of dirt for and having to train new people every a homeowner to removing 1,000 cu. year,” said Spinosa, the owner of Tufts Inc., in Medford, Mass. “Having full- Frank Spinosa, owner of Tufts Inc., yds. of contaminated soil for a contractime, year-round employees was a successfully added other services tor. • Snowfall drives revenue complete change in how the company to his snow removal business in Snow removal is still the most imporwas going to operate. The challenge order to maintain a permanent tant business for the company. was finding enough work to keep the staff of 12 to 15 employees. “If there is enough snow, it could staff busy after the snow was gone.” Spinosa purchased additional equipment and began account for up to 60 percent of our business,” said Spinosa, adding services in order to maintain a permanent staff of 12 as he closed out the busy 2010 – 2011 winter season working for dozens of large clients throughout the Boston area. At to 15 employees. “So far things have turned out for the better,” he said. one time snow removal accounted for 100 percent of his “Full-time employees are more dependable and do a better income. Among the equipment he added when building up the job of operating and maintaining the equipment.” In addition to snow removal, Tufts does the following: see tuFts page 13 • Site preparation, excavation and utility installation