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By Loren Faulkner
The Federal Stimulus Package could help small materials handling company weather lean economic times.
Bautista Canyon in Southern California's San Jacinto Valley has a flood control catch basin at the base of Mt. San Jacinto that has been cleared out by contract material haulers for decades. The latest is Lovelady Trucking and Material, Inc., out of Fallbrook, CA.
Until about a year ago, owner Mark Lovelady's company had been making a good living here, at this Riverside County Flood Control work site. But like most small construction companies in So Cal, he has fallen on tough economic times. Most of his clients ranging from home builders to plasterers, building materials yards, pipeline companies, etc., are in the same boat, or worse, he says.
Material Handling
The material handling company works in a 20-acre basin area. Lovelady digs down 10 feet in the channel, picking up rip rap-sized and smaller rocks that he crushes down to 3/8 inch and 3/4 inch, to class II base, plaster sand, and a specialty 3/8 C-mix blend of sand and rock.
Equipment