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Transportation
NEWSPage 4 Use of commercial labs studied
No sooner had the Materials and Tests
Division's Continuous Improvement team
formed that team members were already
getting down to business. The team, charged
with developing a plan on how to implementby MAT team
the use of commercial labs, surveyed other
state DOTs, and met with TxDOT employees
and commercial lab representatives before
coming to their conclusions.Page 4 Cl team suggests automating functional manuals
The Human Resources Functional Manual any functional manual. The team suggested
team recently reported its findings. The team's getting rid of the paper manuals altogether -
mission was to create an action plan for and replacing them with an automated
developing an integrated Human Resources Human Resources Information System.
Manual, as well as a process for coordinatingPage 5 Print shops to start charging for
The department's print operation has
undergone numerous changes as part of a
recent consolidation of state agency print
shops. The biggest change is that TxDOT is
now able to print for other agencies andservices
charge for the service. The Council on
Competitive Government, whose members
include the governor and lieutenant governor,
directed the consolidation to make print shops
more efficient and cost effective.Page 7 Cutting down paperwork one aim of CMS
Into every job a little paperwork must fall, but information access and increase efficiency.
TxDOT and 12 other states are collaborating Reducing paperwork is one of the goals, along
on a notebook computer automation system to with providing up-to-date information on
reduce paperwork for construction and construction and maintenance projects
maintenance personnel in the field, provide statewide.
Page 9 Forum promotes DBE/HUB opportunities
With recent changes in purchasing procedures, minority-owned businesses to come to the
historically underutilized businesses will be table can be a challenge. While the department
getting a bigger piece of the TxDOT pie. But is eager to work with these companies, choices
encouraging these small, women- and of firms to work with were sometimes limited.Page 13 Cooperation reopens road after
When an early-morning accident on Aug. 8
caused a county road overpass to collapse on
Interstate 30 in Bowie County, a concerted
effort by Atlanta District employees with other
state, local and private entities had the
accident scene cleaned up and the highwaybridge collapse
open to traffic within 24 hours. A truck
pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with three rolls
of stainless steel had veered into the median,
passed around the left side of the protective
guard rail and struck the bridge column head-
on.Published monthly by the
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Texas Department of
Transportation,
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Texas 78701-2483.Manuscripts, photos,
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Editor
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Assignments Editor
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Graphic Artist
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Division Photographers
Geoff Appold
Gay Shackelford
Griff Smith
Kevin StillmanPhoto Librarian
Anne CookTRANSPORTATION NEWS, September 1994
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