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The Southern Directional field crew includes, from left, Josh Burr, new growth foreman; Tristan Hood, hydroexcavator operator; Matthew Gray, skilled laborer/fuser; Jessie Ingram, drill operator, and Philip James, drill foreman/locator. Their equipment includes a Vermeer MX240 mixing system, and a Vermeer D40x55 S3 Navigator directional drill.
How companies handle adversity often serves as a litmus test for success. Take Southern Directional, for instance, an underground-utilities and directional-boring company in Alabama that was flying high after getting hired in 1999 as a subcontractor to lay a fiber optic line across...
