Business View Magazine | December 2019

235 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 M. GERV I CH & SONS , INC . starts with our drivers, when they pick up a box at a factory; when they get on a scale, the operator looks over every load, and then the load goes out to the yard where it’s dumped. We walk through it the same day; take pictures if we think we need to.” While M. Gervich & Sons might be over a century old, it constantly seeks out the new ways of staying current in an ever-evolving business climate. “There have been a lot of technological innovations in the last five to ten years that we’ve taken advantage of – from GPS tracking devices and analytical equipment, to newer lines of heavy material handlers” Doug reports. “Our analyzer gun is pressed up against a piece of metal and in less than ten seconds, it gives you the basic chemistry of that metal. Knowing the material’s chemistry is very important to our consumers when they say something like, ‘We don’t want high manganese steel.’ Okay, we put our analyzer on the steel in question to find out its level of manganese and chrome. We’ve