Meet: Superior Traffic Services:

‘Think fast, respond immediately and stay calm’

John Sauter, office manager and controller, Niccole Solano, chief barricade planner, and co-owner Jeff Anderson pose at Superior Traffic Services Corp. on West Sunset Road Monday, May 7, 2012.

Name of business: Superior Traffic Services

Address: 4337 W. Sunset Road, Las Vegas 89118

Phone: 914-9890

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ststraffic.com

Hours and days: 365/24/7

Owned and operated by: Keith Easton and Jeff Anderson

In business since: 1999, current owners since 2007

In no more than 30 words, describe the goods or services your offer. We provide temporary traffic control planning, equipment installation and maintenance for construction projects. We’re the orange cones, barrels and signage people.

Who are your customers? Local governments, contractors, builders, resorts, Nevada Department of Transportation.

What’s the most important part of your job? Ensuring the traveling public’s and workers’ safety in and around work zones.

Any suggestions on how Nevada might improve its business climate? I think Nevada does as best it can, considering everything. Naturally we’d like taxes lower and more spent on street and highway construction, but ...

Any business lessons you’d wish to share from the recent recession? Your “usual” business model (which you control) must be designed to rapidly respond and change relative to the business climate over which you have no control. Think fast, respond immediately and stay calm.

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