Tag: Lester Contracting

Business

“It was a wild ride.” How contractors made it through 2020

The first wave of the coronavirus pandemic this spring had some contractors completely shut down and others wondering how big of a revenue hit the year would bring. Now that 2020 is basically a known quantity, Equipment World editors reached back to several of the contractors we talked with this spring with one basic question: […]

December 21, 2020

Business

How construction contractors are working safely amid coronavirus threat

Trying to get a job done safely has taken on added significance as contractors deal with the coronavirus pandemic on the job. Contractors readily argue that their work has a natural social distancing aspect: operators are in cabs and those working around a machine are outdoors and typically far enough from each other to maintain […]

May 4, 2020

Business

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

By the time he graduated from high school, Ken Lester, president of Lester Contracting, Port Lavaca, Texas, could operate just about any piece of equipment in his dad’s construction fleet. He joined the company full time in 1979 and two years later his dad retired, leaving Ken to run the company. Ken saw the future […]

March 27, 2013