OnStation for Prime Contractors — Digital Stationing for Road Construction
For Prime Contractors

Crews don’t hunt.They navigate.

Live station on every phone. Defensible documentation on every job.

OnStation app shown on multiple phones — map view with station markers, real paving photo with station overlay, and station readout panel
2 hrs Back per QC tech, every day · Mathy
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3 Utility strikes caught before the dig · Hoffman
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Seconds To answer a guardrail dispute · RS&H I-4
Trusted by primes you compete with
Mathy Hoffman Milestone Brooks Middlesex + 500 more
By the numbers

Trusted on real road construction projects since 2013.

OnStation removes location uncertainty so everyone works from the same accurate job-site data — from primes and CEIs to state DOTs.

4,700+

Stationed projects across the country

500+

Organizations running OnStation

7

State DOTs as direct customers

30+

States with active stationed projects

SOC 2 Type II Certified 99.9% Uptime Founded 2013
Three primes · Three real jobs

What it actually looks like on a job.

Mathy runs density tests in less than half the time. Hoffman’s foreman catches what the locate marks miss. RS&H’s I-4 inspector resolves disputes in seconds.

1 Use Case · Density Tests & Paving QC

Density tests done before the cold roller catches up.

On STH 108, Mathy Construction’s density technicians used to take tests behind the paver, then drive back to the office to record results. 140 test locations per project. 16-hour days. With OnStation, tests happen in-app, geotagged, with photo evidence — before the cold roller catches up to where the paver was.

Before OnStation

Wheel out, test, drive in, type up.

  • Find test location with tape and wheel
  • Capture test reading at the location
  • Open laptop in office, load spreadsheet, type results
  • No photo data captured at the test location
  • Total: ~15 min per test · 16-hour work days

With OnStation

Open the app. Drop a flag. Test. Done.

Mathy’s techs open OnStation, navigate directly to the test location, drop a flag, capture the reading, and snap a geotagged image — all on the phone they already carry.

  • Direct navigation to test station — no tape, no wheel
  • Reading + photo captured on a flag, in-app
  • Geotagged image is part of the record automatically
  • 67% less time per test (15 min → 5 min)
  • Two hours back per tech, per day
OnStation app showing Density Test 3 form with Reading 1 (Density Count 1983, Moisture Count 208, Wet Density 145.6) and Reading 2 fields

This is the form on the tech’s phone. Density Test 3, Reading 1: Density Count 1983, Moisture Count 208, Wet Density 145.6. Captured on station, in-app, with the geotagged photo attached. Reading 2 is right below it. Two readings on one screen. Two hours back on the time card.

$18,000

Mathy Construction · STH 108 (Project 92674)

“Saving two hours a day on a technician’s time card is $100 a day. Multiply that by our 180-day paving season and just one employee, you can save a considerable amount of money. We have 75 QC employees — the numbers add up pretty quickly.”

Derek Frederixson, QC Manager, Mathy Construction · saved per density tech, per season

2 Use Case · Utility Strike Avoidance

Know what’s under the surface before the bucket goes in.

Common Ground Alliance puts utility strikes at 4.51 per project on average — even with clear dig tickets. Hoffman Construction’s foreman pulls design overlays on his phone before breaking ground. Locate marks are one source of truth. The map underneath is another. He checks both.

Before OnStation

Trust the dig ticket. Hope it’s right.

  • Locate request submitted, locate marks painted
  • Crew breaks ground based on visible marks
  • Strike happens despite a clear ticket
  • $20K average cost · deductibles, delays, injuries, fines
  • 4.51 strikes per project (CGA national average)

With OnStation

Pull up the utilities tab. See what’s actually there.

Hoffman’s foreman pulls the utilities tab on his phone before the bucket goes in. Design overlays show what’s actually under the surface — not just what’s painted on it.

  • Design overlays loaded directly to the phone
  • Live alignment + utility map at the foreman’s exact location
  • One minute of due diligence before breaking ground
  • Three strikes avoided on a single project
  • ~$60K in real costs prevented — that’s before the schedule impact
OnStation Unmarked Utility flag detail with satellite map showing station 801+38 15L on Highway 59

What the foreman pulls up before breaking ground. Real flag from a real project — Unmarked Utility tagged at station 801+38 15L on Highway 59. Design overlays, station numbers along the alignment, photo evidence, and full chain of custody. One minute of due diligence. Done before the bucket goes in.

3 strikes

Hoffman Construction · Single project

“OnStation has saved at least three utility strikes when I had clear dig tickets. It takes about a minute to pull up the utilities tab and see what is around me.”

Project Foreman, Hoffman Construction · avoided on one job

3 Use Case · Pay App & Change Order Defense

Defensible records, ready in seconds.

Three months after the work is poured, a quantity gets challenged. A guardrail location gets disputed. The prime running OnStation filters by station range, pulls the photo, sends the timestamp. On the I-4 corridor in Tampa, RS&H’s senior CEI inspector resolved a guardrail dispute on the spot — in seconds. That’s the standard now.

Before OnStation

Search the binder. Find the daily report. Hope the photo is labeled.

  • Daily reports in paper binders or scattered emails
  • Photos sitting on personal phones, no project context
  • Quantities argued by whoever has more paperwork
  • Days or weeks to assemble a defensible response
  • Disputes that take weeks to resolve — or get conceded

With OnStation

Filter by station. Pull the photo. Send the timestamp.

Every flag is station-stamped, time-stamped, and photo-anchored from the moment it was dropped. Filter the Data Portal by station range, export the relevant flags as PDF, send it back the same day.

  • Every flag carries station, offset, time, and photo
  • Filter and export by station range, date, or work type
  • Disputes resolved in seconds, not days
  • SOC 2 Type II certified — audit-ready from day one
  • Annual legal cost reduction: $20K+ per Buyers Guide
portal.onstationapp.com · I-4 Corridor
OnStation Data Portal map view of the I-4 corridor project showing dozens of red cone flags clustered along the alignment, with the Dropped Flags table below listing accidents and accident damage incidents owned by Chris Lundberg of RS&H

Chris’s I-4 corridor project — every flag tied to a line item. “I’ve started linking flags to line items. The red cone icon is for property damage. I have 65 of them right now.” Filter by flag type. Export by line item. Three months later when the DOT challenges a quantity, the answer is a file lookup — not a binder hunt.

Seconds

RS&H · I-4 Corridor, Tampa FL

“You use it once and you realize the value of it. Hands down, digital stationing is always going to point you in the right direction.”

Chris Lundberg, Senior CEI Inspector, RS&H · guardrail dispute resolved on the spot

Works with the tools you already use
HCSS HeavyJob FleetWatcher Trimble TransTech GPS / GNSS
~$6,500

Every week without OnStation costs a typical prime around this much — in QC tech time, dispute risk, and missed change orders. Paving season runs 28 weeks. Math is brutal. (Sourced from the OnStation Buyers Guide on a 7-job year.)

Run your numbers →
For finance & leadership

Run the math on your own jobs.

Drag the sliders. Watch the number change. The math underneath comes from the OnStation Buyers Guide — sourced from WisDOT time studies, CGA utility data, and customer-reported numbers.

Highway projects per year 7
125
Average paving job size $500K
$100K$2M
QC technicians on payroll 10
1100
Net annual ROI
$186,204

Based on your operation, running OnStation across the season.

Staking eliminated $39,318
HMA quantity errors $70,818
Utility strikes $56,018
Documentation & legal $20,050
QC time savings $180,000

Source: OnStation Buyers Guide · WisDOT time study, CGA utility data, customer-reported numbers. QC time savings extrapolated from Mathy Construction’s reported $18K/tech/season at $100/day × 180-day paving season.

Active Worksite™

1 in 5 construction fatalities happen in highway work zones.

Active Worksite™ alerts drivers through Waze and OEM systems the moment your crew is on site — triggered automatically by live jobsite location. Not a generic work zone warning. The exact spot where a crew member is standing right now. No ROI conversation required.

Implementation

Your first 30 days with OnStation.

No new hardware. No complex setup. Field crews use the phones they already carry. The OnStation Customer Success team takes on the heavy lifting — you pick a project and we handle the rest.

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Day 1

Sign & pick a project.

Finalize licenses. Pick one active project to start with — usually the one with the loudest pain.

2

Days 2–7

Train the team.

One training session with the OnStation team. User accounts created. Project loaded. Crews download the app to phones they already have.

3

Days 7–14

Run it on the job.

Crews start using live station, drop flags, capture photos. Office sees the data flow in. PMs and supers see what their crews are doing in real time.

4

Days 14–30

Expand from there.

Add more crews. Bring in subcontractors. Turn on Active Worksite™. Start using forms and integrations. Most teams hit ROI break-even in the first 30 days.

Real questions from primes

The five questions every prime asks.

We’ve heard all of these in sales calls. Here are the straight answers.

Setup takes 5 minutes. Works on the phone they already carry. No hardware. No new login hell. Most crews get past the skepticism on job one because finding a station on OnStation is faster than the old way. Nate Till at Brooks Construction said it went from “why are you giving me this” to “why doesn’t this job have it” inside one season.
Other way around. The primes losing pay app fights and conceding change orders are the ones with paper records. Station-stamped, time-stamped digital documentation is your defense, not theirs. RS&H’s I-4 corridor team resolved a guardrail dispute in seconds because the photo was anchored to a station. Without that, it would have been a multi-day argument.
Good. Keep using them. OnStation integrates with all of them so field data flows directly into the back office. You’re not replacing your tooling — you’re adding the one piece those tools can’t do: live station on a crew member’s phone, with every photo and note tied to it.
Your DOT doesn’t need to ask. Your margin does. The primes winning pay app disputes and protecting change orders aren’t doing it because a DOT mandated it — they’re doing it because defensible documentation is the difference between getting paid and arguing. And when the DOT eventually does ask, you’ll already be there. (Iowa DOT’s adoption created a statewide contractor mandate.)
One disputed change order usually pays for the whole year. The access period includes up to 25 projects, more than most mid-size primes run in a season. Most customers recover the cost in the first 30 days of field use — one density season at Mathy was $18K saved per tech alone.

Paving season is here.

Is your crew ready to locate, document, and report — without losing time?

Risk-free access period. Up to 25 projects per year. No hardware.