Starting up the car is a sound Lee Sartain knows all too well. The small business owner of Ace High Concrete Supply lives in El Dorado Hills and spends around 25 hours on the road weekly. Within a month of getting his new pick-up truck, he's already put 7,000 miles on it, as a majority of his clients are in the Bay Area.
Sartain has office spaces at his brick-and-mortar location, but his main office is his truck on the road with his "best friend" being his GPS Maps app, which he relies on on a daily basis.
"I feel absolutely mentally, physically exhausted, but I also feel very rewarded at the same time, knowing that I'm putting in the time and the effort to make sure that my company stays in front of the competition," Sartain said. "And knowing that I'm doing everything that I can do to make sure that my employees can go home and take care of their families and not worry about anything. I feel absolutely blessed. The fact that I can do this for my team, 100%."
"I'm getting a packing slip for materials that I picked up in Sacramento today," Sartain said.
"We don't really think about it until we actually get to the gas pump and we realize how much money just came out of our account," Sartain said. "I mean, we're probably looking at about $120, $130, maybe more right now. But I do that sometimes twice a day."
One of the tasks Sartain gets done on the road–calling his team and clients, some of whom also get what it takes to super commute, including Fusion Electric owner Dave, who makes the commute from Shingle Springs to the Bay Area.
Sartain continued talking to Dave over the phone on the road about why there are super commuters.
And for Sartain, the value of a handshake is worth hundreds and thousands of miles on the road.
Next stop was South San Francisco. After encountering traffic and a 2-hour and 20-minute drive, Saritan was able to do exactly that, shake hands with a customer while dropping off equipment.
One of the last stops before heading back, visiting Sartain's Santa Clara location, but not before getting some food. We stopped at Lee's Supermarket in San Jose, taking sandwiches to-go.
"That's the reason I come to work because work facilitates me spending time with my kid without having to go, 'Oh, let me get this side gig, let me do'," Santos said. "No, no. I want to do this so that I can go home and spend time with my kid."
"I don't want to spend my life on the road," Sartain said. "Matter of fact, we're going to wrap our sandwiches up because it's just after one o'clock."
"We're contractors, so we're in a business that's based on relationships," Garrett Baxley, DSB+ Construction vice president, said. "And so if you don't see your customers, you don't see your suppliers, we're just going to tend to do business with people that we see on a daily basis. So it's unfortunate he's got to do all that commuting. Fortunately, I live here in Livermore. I work here in livermore So I don't have to deal with the same amount of commute that he does. But we appreciate the time that he takes out of his days to come and see his customers."
"You can't change the past, but you can change today, which will have a positive effect on the future," Sartain said. "You know, you can learn from your mistakes. It is truly possible to learn from your mistakes and change. It becomes something better and greater than you ever thought."
"He's gotta do what he's gotta do," Nolan said. "Nothing I can do about it."
"It's a thought in the back of your mind, that it's scary to be driving, spending most of your time on road going back and forth. However, it is for financial reasons," Gina said.
Sartain appreciated that and said that's why he does what he does.
A phrase his family heard from Sartain is: "I'll see you when I get home".
Super commuters are not a rare breed. A recent University of the Pacific study shows in neighboring San Joaquin County, 1-in-10 commuters travel 90-minutes or more each way for work.
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