Building Industry Magazine - December 2014 - (Page 50)

Builders in Hawaii buy trucks of all sizes and shapes, running the gamut of eight categories Vehicles Vital to Construction BY GAIL MIYASAKI D riving through Kapolei or along the H-3 freeway, Maile Levins sometimes marvels that her company, B & C Trucking Co. Ltd., with a fleet of 22 trucks and 30 employees, had a hand in making an interstate highway and Oahu's "second city" possible. 88 YEARS OF As vice president of B & C, Levins is co-owner since 2004 with President Verne Santos of Hawaii's oldest (to their knowledge) aggregate trucking company, founded in 1954. The 60-year-old company specializes in hauling and depositing aggregate, QUALITY & EXCELLENCE SITE PREP & BUILDING Hilo: Ph (808) 935-7194 Fax (808) 961-6417 Kona: Ph (808) 329-8051 Fax (808) 329-3261 e-mail: isemoto@isemotocontracting.com Lic ABC1036 50 | BUILDING INDUSTRY HAWAII | DECEMBER 2014 including rock, gravel, sand and topsoil, to civil construction or site work, and hauling off waste materials. "We're the truckers that come in before the foundation, bringing in the (base) materials. Then we come back after building is completed for the finishing at the end, such as parking lots and driveways," says Levins, a 20-year veteran of the "rock business." B & C's customers range from the state's largest construction companies, such as Kiewit Building Group, Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. and Grace Pacific, to the local homeowner who needs fill material for a DIY home project. Their work has included government buildings, military facilities, numerous condominiums and two wind farms on Oahu. B & C, whose services include selling rock and trucking packages for a single price, is a union contractor and major Teamsters dump truck company, says Levins. Aggregate truckers, like B & C, and finishing truckers do the start-to-finish hauling work of equipment and materials for contractors to complete the construction building cycle. Once the foundation is laid with aggregate materials, the finishing truckers follow with their big rigs and trailers providing heavy hauling of building materials and equipment, such as cranes. The three leading finishing truck companies are Akana Trucking Inc., Don's Makiki and Yamashiro Trucking (Ed Yamashiro Inc.). All three are locally owned, family-run businesses. Local construction truckers get high

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Building Industry Magazine - December 2014

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FLYING EYES
RICK HELTZEL’S JOURNEY
TOD IN HONOLULU
PAINT STRATEGIES
HOT DOLLARS FOR MUSEUM
VEHICLES VITAL TO CONSTRUCTION
News Beat
Datebook
Contract Awarded/Low Bids
Spotlight on Success: Haleiwa Store Lots
News Makers
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