Building Beyond Borders
Tractics gives self-performing contractors a better way to manage multi-state operations—from tracking yellow iron to deploying crews efficiently and keeping project costs in check. If you’re expanding your footprint, here’s how to keep your operations lean, visible, and ready to scale.
Multi-State Projects = More Moving Parts
More projects mean more job sites, more crews, and more complexity. Without a unified system to track it all, it’s easy to lose visibility—and money.
Common Challenges:
- Equipment idle in the wrong state
- Crews stuck in limbo waiting for reassignment
- Progress that’s hard to verify from the office
- Cost overruns from inefficient resource allocation
How Tractics Helps:
- Live Location Tracking: Know exactly where every crew and piece of equipment is—and how they’re being used.
- Central Dashboards: Get a clear view of labor, equipment, and productivity across all active projects.
- Crew Movement Tools: Move people between projects with context—no time lost on reorientation
Real Life Example: A contractor operating in Arizona and Nevada noticed that their dozers were sitting idle in one state while another project was running behind schedule. With Tractics, the contractor can spot the gap and have equipment moved and redeployed within 24 hours, helping the second site avoid costly delays.
The Result: Your teams work smarter and your office stay ahead of the chaos.
Data That Tells the Whole Story
Success in multi-state construction comes down to data—who’s doing what, where, and how it’s impacting your bottom line. But that data can’t just live in spreadsheets or sit in siloed apps.
Tractics Connects the Dots:
- Field-Driven Time Capture: Crews log time and work details right from the field, organized by job and cost code.
- Automated Labor & Equipment Reporting: Skip the end-of-week catch-up. Get real-time job costing and usage data.
- Forecast-Ready Insights: Monitor progress-to-plan and adjust quickly, so you can protect margin on every job.
Real Life Example: A concrete subcontractor working across California and Oregon wanted to capture time and materials data at each job site. The finance team noticed labor costs were trending 15% higher in Oregon. A deeper look showed crews were arriving late due to unclear logistics. The operations team added site-specific instructions into the app, and within two weeks, productivity normalized.
When field data is captured right the first time, everything else—pay apps, compliance, forecasting—gets easier.
Coordinating Without the Chaos
Whether you’re managing five job sites or 25, the real challenge is consistency. You want crews to show up ready, not wondering what system they’re using or where to report.
With Tractics:
- Everyone uses the same system, no matter the state
- Crew handoffs include context like recent work history and notes
- Your field ops look the same everywhere which makes it simpler for training and scaling
Real Life Example: A self-performing contractor based in Washington had three foremen rotate across projects in different states. With Tractics, each foreman arrived at the new job already familiar with the daily report format, equipment logs, and time tracking process. Onboarding took minutes, not hours.
When the tools and process travel with your teams, transitions are clean and productivity stays high.
Designed for Contractors Who Self-Perform
If you run yellow iron and self-perform your work, you know every hour and every machine counts. Tractics was built with that in mind—tracking what’s happening on the job so you can keep costs down and performance up.
Whether you’re launching your first out-of-state project or managing dozens of sites, we help you:
- Standardize how projects are run in the field
- Make faster decisions with unified reporting
- Support growth without losing control
Real Life Example: A mid-sized contractor in Massachusetts operated 12 crews across 7 job sites. The operations team created project templates for repeat work types, making it easy to launch new projects with the same cost code structure and field reporting flow. The result? A 20% reduction in administrative setup time per job.
Close the Loop Between Field + Compliance
Multi-state construction isn’t just about keeping crews productive—it’s about keeping payroll accurate and compliant in every jurisdiction you touch. This is where Tractics and partner, eBacon, complement each other perfectly.
Here’s How It Works:
- Field crews track time and tasks in Tractics, tied to job codes and locations.
- That data flows to eBacon, which applies the correct prevailing wage rates, deductions, and certified payroll formatting.
- Your back office gets real-time accuracy without manual re-entry.
Why It Matters: A bridge job spanning three counties might require different rates or classifications just miles apart. When time tracking and wage rules aren’t aligned, mistakes happen—and penalties follow. With Tractics + eBacon, your field and finance teams stay in sync.
Certified Payroll Software
Better Workstreams with Your Office Payroll
Learn more about one of our partners, eBacon – the only comprehensive certified payroll compliance and workforce management platform built for construction contractors and subcontractors. Paired with accounting platforms and mobile time tracking, eBacon streamlines the entire payroll workflow from Davis Bacon compliance to fringe benefits management, ensuring real-time accuracy, regulatory compliance, and optimized cash flow. Sign up for a customized tour of their product today.
Conclusion: Build Bigger. Work Smarter. Stay Compliant.
Multi-state doesn’t have to mean multi-mess. With Tractics, you get a field-first view of your operations so you can stay ahead of project risks, spot issues early, and move faster when it counts.
You focus on building—we’ll help you stay coordinated, cost-aware, and ready for what’s next.
