CEG - Thu September 29, 2022
Beard Equipment Grows With Third-Generation Ownership
It's been a couple of years since Beard Equipment Company celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the company continues to grow and thrive with the third-generation family members completely taking the reins of management and ownership....
Cemen Tech - Thu August 04, 2022
Cemen Tech Signs Beard Equipment Company as Authorized Dealer in Northern Florida
Cemen Tech has signed Beard Equipment Company as the exclusive dealer of Cemen Tech volumetric concrete mixers in northern Florida. Beard Equipment Company has focused its road building product inventory on paving and compaction equipment....
CEG - Thu August 06, 2020
Beard Equipment's Ocala, Fla., Branch Open for Business
After some time on the drawing board and a year after the official ground-breaking, Beard Equipment's brand-new Ocala, Fla., branch is officially open for business. The 48,000 sq. ft.- facility is situated on 10 acres of land right off Interstate 75 and has plenty of room for any necessary future expansions....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 05, 2020
Granting an Extension — ALDOT's U.S.-98/SR-158 Project Takes Shape
Work on the estimated $115 million U.S.-98/SR-158 Extension Project in Ala. began in September 2017 and is expected to be completed by 2023. Thus far the DOT has awarded four of the seven contracts for the road and bridge infrastructure construction that is taking place in Mobile County....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 08, 2020
John G. Walton Construction Leads Major SR-180 Work in Orange Beach
John G Walton Construction Co. Inc. started major work on the Alabama Department of Transportation's (ALDOT) $7.9-million SR-180/Canal Rd. widening in Orange Beach on Sept. 23, 2019, and the crews are very confident about meeting the December 2020 delivery date....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
Ammons and Blackmon Progressing on SR 181 Widening
Crews from Ammons and Blackmon Construction LLC began work on the Alabama Department of Transportation's (ALDOT) $19.9 million contract to widen 3.9 mi. of the north-south State Route 181 in August 2018 and are looking to complete the project in the spring of 2021....
CEG - Mon March 11, 2019
Friends Turn Out for Beard Equipment Groundbreaking
Beard Equipment Company held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Ocala, Fla., dealership Feb. 28. Beard has contracted the design-build with Ausley Construction of Ocala for the new facility, which will have more than 48,000 sq....
John Deere - Wed November 21, 2018
John Deere Dealer Provides Backhoes to Aid Hurricane Recovery
Following the devastation of Hurricane Michael, Beard Equipment and John Deere donated the use of a John Deere backhoe to four local counties and municipalities in the Florida Panhandle. The cities of Lynn Haven, Callaway and Mexico Beach and Jackson County experienced serious damage as a result of the hurricane, which made landfall in the area as a Category 4 storm and caused the destruction of buildings and limited access to power, water and roadways....
Craig Mongeau and Joe Barron - Fri October 19, 2018
Hurricane Michael Recovery: Equipment Suppliers Do Their Part to Help
When Hurricane Michael slammed the Gulf Coast earlier this month, it left an unprecedented trail of destruction that will cost millions of dollars and months, if not years, of effort to repair. In the aftermath of the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the Florida Panhandle since record keeping began in 1851, equipment dealers faced the twin challenge of supplying dozers and excavators for government cleanup efforts while at the same time recovering from the damage to their own businesses....
Craig Mongeau - CEG Editor in Chief - Tue June 19, 2018
Oil Fields Drive West Texas Dealership Beard Equipment
In a notoriously up and down, cyclical industry, you better be good at what you do and you better have a good business plan. Beard Equipment, like every other business in the oil-rich areas of West Texas, rides the roller coaster that is the oil market....
