Aug 30, 2026 · 27 min · 12 segments
Our annual trip to Milwaukee PIPELINE is always great fun. This year we talked all things Packout with product manager Nick Trawicki. Packout was first released in June of 2017. Since its launch…
Nick TrawickiGuest
Andy MickelsonHost
Eric AuneHost
I think that's kind of the whole idea behind Paco from the very beginning was organization.

And just if you look at it kind of with a wider lens, though, you start to see things like... what organization does for you as a contractor out in the field that really cuts down the amount of time that's not productive is that correct yeah i'm not

making any wide assumptions here no a hundred percent it's one of those things that through research you see all the time if someone's organized they're much more efficient day in and day out because you're not searching through everything trying to find this fitting or that fitting or this tool So a huge piece of packout has been just helping really enable people to be more organized day in and day out, where if you know everything is, especially you look at packout rack, which we launched last year, you're able to save up to 15 minutes per job just by having a home for your packout in your van.

It could be, you know, your kitchen, right? You put the knives in this drawer or the spoons in this drawer.

Well, I always think of scenarios that might make, that I think that they make the biggest difference or that you find yourself like really scratching your head.

So Andy and I do plumbing HVAC kind of work, right? And we have like, we drive like the transit van style setup.

Sometimes you're doing maybe a change out and you're there for a couple of days.

When you've got somebody working with you that doesn't normally work out of your vehicle, right? That, if you're that person, that's really frustrating.

I think that's kind of the whole idea behind Paco from the very beginning was organization.

And just if you look at it kind of with a wider lens, though, you start to see things like... what organization does for you as a contractor out in the field that really cuts down the amount of time that's not productive is that correct yeah i'm not

making any wide assumptions here no a hundred percent it's one of those things that through research you see all the time if someone's organized they're much more efficient day in and day out because you're not searching through everything trying to find this fitting or that fitting or this tool So a huge piece of packout has been just helping really enable people to be more organized day in and day out, where if you know everything is, especially you look at packout rack, which we launched last year, you're able to save up to 15 minutes per job just by having a home for your packout in your van.

It could be, you know, your kitchen, right? You put the knives in this drawer or the spoons in this drawer.

Well, I always think of scenarios that might make, that I think that they make the biggest difference or that you find yourself like really scratching your head.

So Andy and I do plumbing HVAC kind of work, right? And we have like, we drive like the transit van style setup.

Sometimes you're doing maybe a change out and you're there for a couple of days.

When you've got somebody working with you that doesn't normally work out of your vehicle, right? That, if you're that person, that's really frustrating.
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