More From 2013 Contractor of the Year

HDD contractor Scott Kelly’s “Journey to Elite” pays off in Contractor of the Year win

HDD contractor Scott Kelly’s “Journey to Elite”...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 01, 2013

"This is not the business for us.” That’s what Scott Kelly remembers thinking in 1995, the first time he saw horizontal ...

Loyalty a two-way street for successful Colorado contractor T-Bone Construction

Loyalty a two-way street for successful Colorado...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Apr 01, 2013

With a company he built from the ground up starting in 1987, Michael Thibault's T-Bone Construction in Colorado Springs was ...

Husband and wife’s business savvy spell success for Texas contractor

Husband and wife’s business savvy spell success for...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 27, 2013

Ken and Melissa Lester By the time he graduated from high school, Ken Lester, president of Lester Contracting, Port Lavaca, ...

Father and sons team up for growth and diversity at R.L. Caudill Construction

Father and sons team up for growth and diversity at...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 27, 2013

Stuart Caudill, owner of R.L. Caudill Construction,  Owingsville, Kentucky, and his brothers Robert and Shannon learned to operate equipment from ...

Communication brings Massachusetts contractor through tough times

Communication brings Massachusetts contractor through...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 27, 2013

Richard Gordon Richard Gordon has been operating equipment since he was a kid, running Bobcats around in the yard, the ...

NASCAR driver Jeff Burton talks Gen-6 cars, answers contractors’ questions

NASCAR driver Jeff Burton talks Gen-6 cars, answers...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 18, 2013

At Equipment World’s annual Contractor of the Year event this year, we were able to spend an hour of quality ...

Charles D. Lowder Inc. wins Equipment World’s top safety award

Charles D. Lowder Inc. wins Equipment World’s top...

Posted by Marcia Gruver Doyle on Mar 14, 2013

When a firm is well established, there can be an attitude of not fixing what isn’t broken while old ideas ...

Nitteberg Construction Co., small South Dakota town share a bond

Nitteberg Construction Co., small South Dakota town...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 01, 2013

Each February, Gale Nitteberg, his wife and their grandchildren pack up and head south for about month to escape the ...

On Record: Quotes from the construction front lines

On Record: Quotes from the construction front lines

Posted by Marcia Gruver Doyle on Feb 04, 2013

Equipment World Editorial Director Marcia Gruver Doyle When they’re not dodging snowflakes, our editors relish this season, since it’s the ...

Third-generation paver creates his own roads to follow

Third-generation paver creates his own roads to follow

Posted by Amy Materson on Jan 18, 2013

Paver Chris Fink and his dog Slate. During January, the Equipment World editorial team spreads out across the country to ...

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