Construction Equipment's Frank Raczon visited Under 40 in Construction Equipment award winner DJ Rutledge of Rutledge Excavating in Equinunk, Pennsylvania.
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Rutledge, VP of the family-owned company, talked about working through supply chain and parts issues, and the importance of having additional inventory.
The company has grown from a few employees, an excavator, and a dump truck in 2010 to the firm it is today, with 45 employees and a host of contracts under its belt from the state DOT and DNR for earthwork, as well as conservation work from the National Park Service.
It also does FHWA work and a variety of site preparation jobs.
Today, the fleet includes six tri-axle dump trucks, 14 excavators, four GPS-integrated dozers, ADTs, motor graders, and more. Rutledge also has its own drone, which it uses for estimating, mapping, checking volumes, and verifying billing on government jobs.
You can read the full story on DJ Rutledge here.
About the Author
Frank Raczon
Raczon’s writing career spans nearly 25 years, including magazine publishing and public relations work with some of the industry’s major equipment manufacturers. He has won numerous awards in his career, including nods from the Construction Writers Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, and BtoB magazine. He is responsible for the magazine's Buying Files.