Storm & emergency response
Build the bench before the storm hits.
When a storm knocks out infrastructure across a multi-county area, demand for fiber splicing and directional drill crews spikes fast — and the "who do I call" scramble starts from zero for anyone without a bench already built. CrewNation is the free directory where crews list trade, location, equipment, and real-time availability — including a dedicated emergency-only status — so contractors can pre-build a roster now and pull from it the moment work opens up.
Launch focus: Nashville · Memphis · Louisville — fiber splicing & directional drill
Crews currently emergency-ready
No crews are marked emergency-ready yet.
CrewNation currently lists 3 crews — none has flipped their availability to emergency-only yet. That's an honest zero, not a bug: the program is real and the toggle is one click when a crew wants storm calls specifically.
Run a crew and want storm calls? Flip your availability to Emergency Only from your dashboard. Need crews for an active or upcoming event? Post the project — CrewNation notifies every eligible emergency-available crew the moment it goes live.
For prime contractors
A roster you built before you needed it.
The "who do I call" scramble is what storm response looks like for everyone without a bench already built. Pre-build yours now — it costs nothing and it's useful whether or not a storm ever lands.
Search by trade, not by who you know
Filter for fiber splicing and directional drill crews by location, equipment, and emergency availability — no broker, no Facebook post.
Build your Storm Bench now
Save crews to a named roster before you need them, with a note on each — so a live event is one look at a pre-approved shortlist, not a cold search on a deadline.
One search when the storm hits
Post emergency work and every eligible, emergency-available crew in range gets an SMS and email the moment you publish it.
For crews
Storm work pays a premium. Get found for it.
Storm and emergency restoration work commonly pays a stacked premium over baseline — 1.5x–2x overtime, $100–$200+/day per diem, sometimes double-time — with linemen chasing storms reportedly clearing $13,000–$14,000 in a single week during a major event, per powerlinemanjobs.com and lineman industry reporting. CrewNation doesn't set or guarantee any of that pay — it's what makes contractors actively search for crews who've made themselves easy to find.
Flip to emergency-only in seconds
Set your availability to Emergency Only from your dashboard whenever you want storm work specifically and nothing else — flip it back just as fast.
Get found by trade, location, and equipment
Contractors filter by exactly what you run — bore length, splicer cert, OTDR gear — not a resume pile. Your profile is what gets searched.
Free, no placement fee, no exclusivity
Listing costs nothing and takes a cut of nothing. You can work with brokers or other channels too — CrewNation doesn’t ask for exclusivity.
Launch geography
Built around the mid-South, on purpose.
CrewNation's soft-launch supply sits in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi — Nashville, Memphis, and Louisville are the launch focus for fiber splicing and directional drill. Crews based in that footprint routinely deploy to Gulf storm landfalls within their stated travel radius, so density built here pays off for Gulf coast events even though none of the seeded crews are based directly on the coast.
Don't wait for the call to start looking.
Free to join on both sides. No placement fees, no contract lock-in, no cut of anything a crew gets paid.