On a 10-mile water transmission pipeline installation, the contractor deployed 10 12-yard bedding boxes, staged every half-mile along the trench. Without bedding boxes, the crew would have needed around 600 loader trips to keep stone bedding moving along the line. With the boxes strategically placed, that number dropped to 340 trips, eliminating 260 loader runs in total. At $85/hour per loader, averaging 20 minutes per trip, the savings in machine time alone topped $7,350. Add in labor costs of roughly 20 crew days saved at $1,200/day, and the project realized over $24,000 in direct cost reductions in just one phase of construction. Beyond the dollars, the streamlined setup kept the project weeks ahead of schedule, critical on a job of that size.