After Seeing Opportunity, California Trenching Contractor Expands Services

California excavator turned his business around by shifting into wheel trenching mode.
After Seeing Opportunity, California Trenching Contractor Expands Services
Accurate Trenching operator Marco Gutierrez confirms the depth of a linear trench while operator Stacey Rogers steers the company’s workhorse, a Cleveland Model 236 wheel trencher, as part of an 8,000-foot agricultural irrigation job in California’s Central Valley outside Bakersfield.

As demand for new-home construction faltered in 2008, Jim Stevenson — the owner of Accurate Trenching — knew his 40-year-old business, which relied heavily on trenching for foundation footings, had reached a critical crossroads.

So Stevenson looked at the business lay of the...

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