Newsroom

Welcome to the Vermeer Texas-Louisiana newsroom. Here you can read about our involvement in projects throughout the Texas region focusing on the underground construction, landscape, tree care, surface mining, wood waste processing and organic recycling markets.

Driver Pipeline flirts with HDD record; completes a 1.13-mile (1.8 km) bore — through rock — in one straight shot

2011-11-14

The project traversed two affluent Fort Worth, Texas, suburbs, beneath the immaculate fairways and sculptured greens of two golf courses, tree-lined streets and posh neighborhoods … and ranks among the longest continuous bores in trenchless pipeline history.

Bucket wheel speeds production for Bottom Line Services

2011-11-07

Just as storefront businesses rely on three key factors for success — “location, location, location” — much of the success in today’s fast-paced construction industry depends on a similar proposition: production, production, production. When customers commit to projects, they want contractors to get the work done “yesterday,” and that’s when having the right equipment pays dividends.

Lone Star Directional Drilling completes 4148-foot crossing for carbon dioxide pipeline

2011-10-31

Starting a new horizontal directional drilling company in the current economic conditions can be challenging, but John Dagenhart has seen the ups and downs of this industry during his 18-year career in the trenchless industry and is using this experience to help guide his newly formed company.

Track trenchers help Driver Pipeline keep up with Barnett Shale work

2011-10-24

Mark Wright is a busy man. As a general superintendent for the pipeline contractor Driver Pipeline Company, Inc., Dallas, Texas, he currently oversees the installation of more than 70,000 feet of natural gas lines.

Parker Lane finds growth in pipeline market

2011-10-19

Brent Lane and his business partner, Steve Parker, have witnessed the ups and downs of the horizontal directional drilling business. The friends started Parker Lane Directional Drilling in 1998 and began working on fiber projects in the Fort Worth, Texas area. When the fiber industry went bust, Parker and Lane did everything they could think of to survive two incredibly lean years.

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