As Deep South continues into 2018 -- marking its 50th anniversary as a company -- the family-owned and operated organization reflects on its many successes celebrated throughout the years and looks to the future with a renewed focus. Now operating with nine offices strategically placed throughout the U.S., Deep South once began with humble roots. In the spring of 1968, hardworking electrical engineer Camile Landry saw an opportunity to make a go of his own business. He founded Deep South as an electrical contracting company serving the industrial market, but when customers began asking to rent his equipment, Landry realized the rental business could be even more viable. In the early '70s, he started small, renting pieces of equipment, but the local market needed more rough-terrain cranes -- and Landry responded. With the company's investment in a 300-ton lattice-boom crane, considered a "heavy lift" crane at that time, as well as hydraulic transporters, Deep South became fully committed to the heavy lift and heavy haul industry.
Throughout the 1980s, the company grew to meet increased customer demand, especially for cranes exceeding 1,000-ton capacity. History was made in 1993 when Deep South revealed the first VersaCrane⢠-- a 1,500-ton crane capable of handling most any challenge while operating in crowded, congested spaces and able to be transported easily and economically. Deep South has continued to invest in this technology, adding a 1,000-ton VersaCrane crawler crane in 2014 and now preparing to launch a new higher-capacity TC-36000 this summer.
Today, Deep South offers a full range of heavy lift and heavy haul solutions, including cranes, transporters, specialty rigging, jacking, skidding, gantries, steel matting and bridge systems. As customer needs have grown, the company has expanded to new geographic markets across the South and beyond, currently maintaining offices in Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana and South America. Deep South completed its first international project in 2013 through DS Americas, a Colombia-based division established to bring the company's capabilities directly to the South American market.
Through it all, Deep South's commitment to putting customers first has never wavered. From day one, the company has been a family business, with Landry joined by his children, Regina, Mitch and Brian, and eventually grandchildren Jeremy, Marie, Margaret, Kate and John. The company's success is a direct result of the talent, character and determination of every Deep South employee, past and present.
"Looking to the future, we want to honor the history of this company by continuing to provide first-class heavy lift and heavy haul solutions, making sure that our honest, hardworking and safety-first approach to challenges in our industry helps pa ve the road to success for our customers," said Mitch Landry, president of Deep South. "At the end of the day, that's what we are all about."
Today, Deep South is expanding to meet strategic opportunities, continually refining the best training and safety program in the industry and actively recruiting the next generation of young talent while outfitting them with the resources they need to succeed. Deep South faces the future with the same spirit of teamwork, responsibility and respect that has made its success possible.
For more information, visit www.Deepsouthcrane.com or call (877) 490-4371.