Another thing that is over regulated is training. Some of these guys have to test 2-3x per year for various pipelining tasks that they've been doing the exact same way for 5, 10, 20+ years. It is a HUGE waste of time and money. They still get paid while doing this training, which in turn costs us more non-productive labor hours, so we charge Columbia those labor hours which in turn gets passed on to Ohio residents in the form of price increases. When we've got an average of 100 guys spending about 40 hrs a year on training earning their full rate which is anywhere from $20-$75/hr that is a good chunk of change. Now multiply that by the rest of the contractors that work for them who also have anywhere from 50-200 employees, and that is just pipeline contractors! All because of a regulation that in theory is supposed to make the industry safer and sounds all good until you get down to the dollars and cents of it