# RoadHand

> RoadHand is a mobile and web app for traveling trades workers — welders, linemen, pipefitters, ironworkers, electricians, crane operators, and other industrial tradespeople. It combines contractor reviews with OSHA safety scores, real worker-submitted pay data benchmarked against BLS and Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, worker-reviewed housing listings with GSA per diem baselines, and wage fairness lookups by trade and location.

RoadHand's tagline is "Know Before You Go." The core problem it solves: tradespeople routinely make $150K career decisions (taking a contract in a new state, driving 1,000+ miles for a job, paying extended-stay rates) with almost no reliable information about the contractor, the pay package, or the housing. RoadHand aggregates government data (BLS, Davis-Bacon, GSA, OSHA) as an objective floor, and layers worker-submitted reviews and pay reports on top.

The project is pre-launch as of 2026 and accepting waitlist signups from both workers and property hosts. There is no paid tier for workers — viewing reviews, pay data, housing, and wage benchmarks is free. Property hosts pay a flat $199/year to list housing; no booking fees, no commission. Workers keep their reviews anonymous by default.

## Key pages

- [Landing page](https://roadhand.app/): Marketing home. Explains the four core features, the problem statement, the data sources, and hosts the waitlist signup form.
- [Web app](https://app.roadhand.app/): Authenticated Expo-based web version of the RoadHand app (contractor reviews, pay explorer, housing, wage lookups).

## Product surfaces

- **Contractor reviews**: Workers rate contractors on pay, safety, management, and culture. OSHA inspection history is auto-attached to every contractor profile from federal enforcement data.
- **Pay explorer**: Compare real pay packages (hourly rate, per diem, OT rules) reported by workers on the same project, against BLS percentile benchmarks and Davis-Bacon prevailing wages.
- **Housing directory**: Worker-reviewed housing (extended stays, man camps, rentals) with filters for truck parking, pets, kitchens, and price. GSA per diem rates included as a government baseline.
- **Wage lookup**: Standalone government wage benchmarks — BLS OEWS, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage, GSA per diem — for any trade in any location. Free and always.

## Data sources

- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) — 500K+ wage records
- U.S. Department of Labor — Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage determinations — 3,100+ counties
- U.S. General Services Administration — Per Diem rates
- OSHA — Enforcement inspection data — 50K+ inspections
- U.S. Department of Labor — Wage and Hour Division

Coverage: 48 continental U.S. states.

## Target audience

Traveling trades workers in industrial construction: welders, linemen, pipefitters, ironworkers, electricians, crane operators, millwrights, boilermakers, heavy equipment operators, industrial mechanics. Secondary audience: property owners near industrial job sites (refineries, wind farms, solar farms, pipelines, power plants) who want to list housing to verified tradespeople.

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://roadhand.app/llms-full.txt): Full, long-form version of this file with additional background, FAQs, and launch context.