Experienced Foresters. Nationwide Reach. Deployed in 24 Hours.
When a storm takes down lines, floods a service territory, or creates vegetation damage that overwhelms your current resources, you need experienced people on the ground fast. ACRT’s Ready Force® is a nationwide team of highly experienced foresters strategically positioned across the country and available for rapid deployment to support utility storm restoration efforts, typically within 24 hours of mobilization.
Ready Force® foresters aren’t entry-level field staff brought in to fill a gap. They are some of ACRT’s most experienced vegetation management professionals: foresters who have managed programs, led crews, and responded to major weather events across the country. When they arrive on your system, they get to work immediately.
Utility Storm Restoration
Vegetation damage from major weather events is among the most operationally demanding challenges a utility faces. Downed trees, broken lines, blocked access routes, and overwhelmed local crews require rapid assessment, coordinated direction, and experienced field leadership to restore service efficiently and safely.
Ready Force foresters have served as first responders during some of the most significant storm events in recent utility history — including Hurricanes Katrina, Isaac, and Irma — providing the experienced field leadership utilities need when conditions are most demanding. Strategically positioned across the country, Ready Force teams can mobilize to your service territory quickly, assess the scope of damage, and direct tree crews on whatever scale your restoration effort requires.
When every hour of outage duration matters to your customers and your regulatory standing, Ready Force provides the experienced, deployable field capacity to accelerate restoration and help you get the lights back on.
Contract Start-Ups and Program Launches
Launching a new vegetation management program — or onboarding a new contractor relationship — requires experienced field leadership from day one. Without it, early program execution sets patterns that are difficult to correct later, and the time required to recruit and train permanent staff leaves programs exposed during the critical start-up window.
Ready Force provides the experienced forester support utilities need to get new programs off the ground correctly. Our foresters can step into field leadership roles immediately, establish program standards and workflows from the start, and provide the operational continuity that allows permanent staff recruitment and training to proceed without compromising program performance in the interim.
Short-Term Coverage and Personnel Continuity
Key personnel losses — whether from illness, extended leave, or planned transition — can leave vegetation management programs without the experienced field leadership they depend on. For utilities running lean operations or managing programs in geographically challenging territories, even a temporary gap in experienced forester coverage can create performance and compliance risk.
Ready Force foresters can step into existing program roles quickly, while bringing the industry knowledge, management experience, and field capability needed to keep your program running to standard while permanent coverage is arranged. Because Ready Force professionals come from within ACRT’s experienced forester community, the transition is significantly smoother than bringing in an unfamiliar resource.
The Ready Force Difference
What separates Ready Force from general staffing or emergency contractor arrangements is the combination of experience, speed, and organizational backing that only ACRT can provide:
Experience that matters in the field. Ready Force foresters are among ACRT’s most seasoned professionals, and not temporary workers brought in for an event. They bring the field judgment, program management capability, and utility industry knowledge that high-stakes situations demand.
Nationwide positioning for rapid response. Ready Force teams are strategically distributed across the country, not concentrated in a single region. That geographic positioning means shorter mobilization times regardless of where your system is located or where a storm occurs.
The full backing of ACRT behind them. When Ready Force foresters deploy to your system, they bring the operational support, safety infrastructure, and organizational resources of ACRT behind them.
Ready to Mobilize When You Need It
Storm events don’t follow business hours. If you need to reach ACRT’s Ready Force team for emergency deployment or want to establish a pre-event response agreement before storm season, contact us today. Click the link below or call 800.622.2562.