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May Heavy Equipment Reaches Milestone Anniversary

By Giles LambertsonCEG CORRESPONDENT

Like a tandem compactor, May HeavyEquipment Company is on a roll. Infusedwith additional capital, energized by newproduct lines and firmly established inkey markets in the Carolinas, the compa-ny is smoothing the way for future expan-sion. In its 20th year, the company isexpanding its presence in North andSouth Carolina, eyeing territories beyondthe two states and generally growing itsbrand as a dealer and equipment source.

***When Jacob May returned home from

college in 1997, he wanted to enroll inlaw school and eventually become an FBIagent. His father, Bert May, had anotheridea: help sell 70 pieces of used heavyequipment consigned to him by a dealer.His father had been dealing in heavyequipment since 1973, the year beforeJacob was born, and the equipment dealerhad confidence the Mays could move themachines.And they did. “The dealer respected

Dad and trusted us,” May said. “We soldevery one of those machines and startedhiring.” Just that quick, May Heavy Equipment

was born. The ensuing two decades ofMay Heavy Equipment history have been interesting, as earlyyears of a new enterprise often are. The company survived therecession of 2001 to ’03 only to be hit by the economic collapseof 2007 to ’08. “I’ve had major lows and major highs,” acknowledged May,

now president of the firm. In the beginning, the firm couldn’t evenfind a building because the textile industry dominated commercialreal estate. During the first downturn, the company’s equipmentrental equipment was young and attractive to rental customers,but it had lost some appeal when the second downturn arrived. “Itwas tough.”What the company had going for it was its emphasis on rental.

Renting was not the default option for contractors at the turn ofthe century, but the recessions began to erode that mindset. “Twenty years ago, people didn’t like to rent,” May said. “They

didn’t like to pay that money and not own the machine. But whenthe recession hit, rental is what kept us in business.”

***Kerry Vickar is Canadian-born but Carolina-savvy. He moved

to Charlotte in 1991 as a company executive, founded and even-tually sold another company there, and co-founded an investmentand private equity firm. A quarter century after arriving in

The company built a facility in Lexington, N.C., to offer its customers the bestservice possible. (L-R) are Jacob May, president of May Heavy Equipment,Bert May and Kerry Vickar, chairman and CEO, May Heavy Equipment.

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The Lexington, N.C., team.

The new Lexington facility includes a service facility with six drive through service bays, enabling the company to work on24 machines at time.

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Charlotte, Vickar has established himself as anentrepreneurial expatriate.

He had an opportunity to invest in May HeavyEquipment in 2010, when he first examined thecompany and liked what he saw. “But I didn’tthink the overall industry was returning soon, so Imoved on.” Two years later, he again was scoutingopportunities and remembered May HeavyEquipment. Because he believed in the peopleinvolved with the business, this time Vickar did hisdue diligence and bought in.

“May had been a very successful rental busi-ness, but I was only interested if we could turn itinto a dealership model,” he said. “We would con-tinue to rent equipment, and turn around traded-inequipment, that’s a part of moving iron. But it onlymade sense if we could become a certified dealerto give us new equipment and add additionalrevenue streams, including parts, service andwarranty.”

Vickar stresses that the company was in a strongposition even though it was struggling. “It was a

(L-R) Steven Gawthrop, service manager; Sarah Cranford, warranty andservice; Katherine McCall, warranty and service; Kenneth Martin, parts man-ager, run the parts and service segments at the Lexington, N.C., branch.

Chuck McGirt (L), chief operations officer and Will Blackerby, vice president of the fleet.

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good company, with good customers and a management team Ibelieved in, young, smart and with a lot of experience. They justhad been overwhelmed by the recession in 2008.”After subsequent successful talks with major heavy equipment

manufacturers — Terex, Hyundai, Kawasaki, and Sakai — thenew chapter in the company story began in July 2013. Productlines added since are Bomag, Gehl, Bell, LayMor, SANY,NorAm, and Link-Belt excavators. The company has expanded tofive locations — a sixth is in the works — and tripled the size ofits employee ranks.The irony is that the deep recession contributed to this success. “If the financial world hadn’t changed, the opportunities

wouldn’t have been there. These manufacturers of quality heavyequipment already would have been represented,” Vickar said.“There’s usually a silver lining in everything” So in 2013 as CEO of a construction equipment company,

Vickar quickly found himself writing a check every time heturned around, including for such expenses as a new fleet ofservice trucks. He had expected as much. “I knew we had a management team made up of good, young,

solid, professional people,” he said. “They were even better thanI thought they were coming in. They just needed an opportunity

to work within a company structure that was properly capitalized.I understood business and they understood this business. I took onsome management responsibilities and let them run the business,and off we went.”The other critical ingredient was that old customers gave the

reorganized company a chance. “It was incredibly important for them to believe in the company

and to give us an opportunity to show them the new May HeavyEquipment,” Vickar said. “For years, they had rented. Now wewere coming out with new Hyundai, Kawasaki and Terex prod-ucts. Were they going to let us show them that the new equipmentwould work just as well? They gave us that opportunity and wego to work every day to look after our customers.”

***Of the company’s five locations, the newest is a headquarters

facility just opened this summer in Lexington, N.C., in the centerof the state. The new property has 12 service bays, twice as manyas before. A full parts department was added along with anexpanded shipping and receiving department and a corporate

(L-R) are Bill Livengood; Caleb St. John; Mark Evans; Robert Hymer; Trent Forshee; Danny Lampley; Steven Gawthrop; JoseSimon; Kenneth Martin; Jessie Richmond; Jody Robinson and Tim Nulph, all of the Lexington, N.C., service department.

see page 12

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wing large enough to accommodate a growing firm. The company’s South Carolina locations are in Columbia, the

state’s second-largest city, and Piedmont, in the state’s Upcountrybetween Atlanta and Charlotte. The third facility is inSummerville on the outskirts of Charleston in the coastal lowcountry bordering the Atlantic. A sixth company location is beingestablished in the Rock Hill, S.C., — Charlotte, N.C., area thatstraddles the state line.

The busiest facility is in Clayton, just south of Raleigh. MayHeavy Equipment gained its significant presence in the capitalcity by acquiring Tar Heel Machinery, which Scott Woody openeda decade ago. Woody now is May’s senior sales coordinator anda partner in the company.

“We probably have the largest articulated haul truck fleet ineither state, almost 60 articulated dump trucks, and we havealmost twice as many excavators,” Woody said. “While rentalsare a major transaction at the Clayton facility,” he said, “our‘rental’ fleet is not truly dedicated as such. With a very extensiverange of new, slightly used, and used heavy dirt moving, heavyhighway, compact asphalt, and specialty equipment in our fleet,we have a lot to offer our customers wanting great quality, no hourto low-hour, well-maintained equipment at a various range ofprices to meet their specific needs and budgets.”

Woody is energized by the company’s goal of continual growthin the Carolinas.

“We have really “grown into ourselves” as an independentdealer over the last several years. To continue to grow and be suc-cessful and achieve our goal of being number one in the lines werepresent, our sales staff, service technicians and administratorsare continually going through manufacturer training in whateverstate they might be called, to keep up with continual changes intechnology on these units as anyone in this industry will tell you— never slows down. Fortunately, we have great relationshipswith our manufacturers and we are proud to represent each ofthem. They strive, just as we do, to be the best in their respectivemarket segments as well. Success is contagious and it takes goodpartnerships to grow in our industry as in any other.

Woody said after the merger of Tar Heel and May in 2015,everyone stepped up and “we were able to promote talent to sev-eral key positions within the organization and add an incrediblegroup of people from the outside to spur our progress. This hasallowed us to assign specific tasks to very qualified people.”

Vickar voiced the same about the overall operation.“Everybody has a role to play in the company. We have a verygood group of people with diverse skill sets. Everyone does whatthey do well.”

(L-R): Amy Thomas, accounting manager; Judy Adams, accounts receivable manager; Mattie Thomas, accounting department;Katherine McCall, warranty and service; Sarah Cranford, warranty and service, keep the Lexington, N.C., office running smoothly.

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The Columbia, S.C., branch is located at 1330 Buckner Rd., just off I-20.

May Heavy Equipment’s inventory at the Columbia, S.C., branch includes Bell artic trucks, Hyundai excavators and wheelloaders, Bomag paving products, KCM wheel loaders, Sakai paving products, Link-Belt excavators, Terex trucks, Sanyexcavators and other quality brands.

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The can-do spirit is evidentthrough the ranks. AccountingManager Amy Thomas, a 14-yearemployee, calls the company “agreat place to work. I feel like wehave a real good team. We workreally well together. We’re on thesame page.”Danny Lampley, a shop mechan-

ic for 18 of the company’s 20 years,has seen lots of change, recallingwhen the company had just sixservice bays. He said what hasn’tchanged is the feeling of being partof a family. “I’ve worked for Jacoband for Bert for many years. Fromthe beginning, they welcomed meright into the family.”

(L-R) are Will Matthews, parts specialist; Phillip Hilton, Columbia and Charleston, S.C., branch manager; Mark Zegilla, servicemanager; Bruce Moore, finance manager; Richie Ambrose, vice president, new machine sales; Michael Lanier, sales, all of the

Columbia, S.C., branch.

May Heavy Equipment is the authorized dealer of Noram motorgraders in South Carolina.

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***Good companies are distinguished from bad ones by superior

service. Steven Gawthrop, May’s director of service, keeps thatin mind as he tracks the work of 35 technicians and four servicemanagers. The company has 38 shop bays spread across the sixlocations, compared to just 12 bays four years ago. In addition,17 service trucks are constantly on the go.Gawthrop makes sure the trucks not only respond promptly

— what he calls “the May way” — but that they go extra milesif necessary to do so. He cites the example of a concrete compa-ny that needed a service call. “The Clayton facility couldn’t getthere, so we took one from our Lexington facility. He’s a goodcustomer so we charged him as if the truck came from the clos-est facility.” The customer response to such policies has been positive.

“We are growing daily and it’s great to be a part of the growth,to see it take off,” said Gawthrop, “When I was hired, I was toldI could retire from here. I believe every word.”

May Heavy Equipment’s Columbia, S.C., team.

Will Matthews (L), parts specialist and branch manager,and Phillip Hilton put together a Hyundai parts order fora customer at the company’s Columbia, S.C., branch.see page 18

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May Heavy Equipment’s fleet numbers almost 300, with 90percent of them rentable. Will Blackerby, vice president of fleetmanagement, focuses on having the right mix of equipment in theinventory.

“Excavators and articulated trucks make up half of our rentalfleet and I’d put our truck fleet up against any in the country,” hesaid.

By mid-July with construction activity at its peak, Blackerby’struck fleet was operating at full capacity: No trucks were availablefor rent.

Richie Ambrose, vice president of new equipment sales and10-year veteran of the company, said the firm is known for itstrucks. “As far as units moved, excavators are our number oneselling product, but in terms of business volume, it is articulated

trucks. After all, a new truck can cost $360,000, an excavator$160,000.”

Those big-ticket items have made equipment sales the compa-ny’s biggest revenue-producer.

Something like 98 percent of May’s business activity today isin the Carolinas, the rest in Virginia and Georgia. Building out thecompany’s current footprint is the priority over expansion intoother states. Jesse Beasley, the company’s general manager of theCarolinas, said full service for the western and eastern edges ofNorth Carolina is a first order of business.

“We’ll have to look at those two areas. Before we expand, wewant to fully realize a return on the current investments.”

The company’s chief operations officer, Chuck McGirt, echoesBeasley.

(L-R) are Mark Zegilla, service manager, and Jesse Stattler, Jeff Galardo, Greg Chambers, Bob Hadder, Henry Weller,Dion Taylor and Samuel Williams, all service technicians of May Heavy Equipment’s Columbia, S.C., branch.

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(L-R) are Phillip Hilton, branch manager of Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; Jessee Beasley, general manager; Hunter Johns,salesman of Charleston and north; and Chandler Young, salesman of Charleston and south.

The ample supply of machines in Charleston from Hyundai, Terex, Link-Belt, Bomag, Bell and many more.

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The Charleston, S.C., team.

The Charleston branch is located on I-26 just outside of Charleston in Summerville, S.C.

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“We’re still building out our footprint.That’s the largest challenge, but we also needto keep the shop full. We need to keep get-ting new business, reaching out throughparts and service, that’s what’s going to keepour shops full in addition to rental fleet main-tenance.”McGirt believes the company’s future is

bright. “We are just now getting the infra-structure in place and doing the fine-tuning.We have great people and state-of-the-artfacilities and now just need to execute. Weare more than capable of accomplishingwhat we have set out to do.”The company president concurs. He looks

back on the company’s first two decades andsees contractors who have been customersfrom the beginning. “We’ve kept our loyalcustomers,” Jacob May said, “not losingvery many. We’ve done a lot in the last fouryears and we need to extend our footprint atsome point, but right now we are going tofocus on our home here in the Carolinas. Ifeel great about where we are and what weare doing.”

(This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’swebsite at www.constructionequip-mentguide.com.) CEG

(L-R) are William Hughes, Ben Ramos, Darren Wilson, Bruce Godwin, Danny Simons, Tradd McMillan and Matt Hess, all servicetechnicians of May Heavy Equipment’s Charleston, S.C., branch.

(L-R): Gene Kelly, equipment manager; Jessee Beasley, general manager, andPhillip Hilton, branch manager of Charleston and Columbia, S.C., locations, standin front of a Bomag milling machine at the Charleston branch.

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May Heavy Equipment’s Raleigh, N.C., team. Not pictured is Brent Coor.

The new facility is located at 555 Wise Road in Clayton, N.C.

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(L-R) are Amy Pope, office manager, Chance Maynard, partsmanager, Bonnie Batson, service writer and Robbie Martin,service manager, all of May Heavy Equipment’s Raleigh, N.C.

(L-R) are Chelsea Yopp, rental coordinator and Lee Monseesand Jay Sellers, both sales representatives, covering Raleighand eastern North Carolina.

(L-R back row) Anthony Johnson, Floyd Clark, C.J. Porter, Christian Pulquero, Steve Pollard (L-R front row) Fred Sansoucie,Derrick Smith, Brian Cabell and Tommy Thompson, the May Heavy Equipment Raleigh, N.C., technicians, keep the fleet up andrunning. Not pictured is Brent Coor.

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AUTHORIZED DEALERMay Heavy Equipment is the authorized distributor for the following quality brands listed below. We strive to make sure every customer who needs parts and service is provided with exceptional service from a representative that cares about your bottom line and productivity. May offers parts and service not only for the brands listed below but many more. Call us today at 886-629-3784 and experience the “May Way” --- our people will make the difference in your business’s profitability.

Lexington, NC866-629-3784

Charlotte, NC704-431-3710

Raleigh, NC919-773-1424

Columbia, SC888-865-1002

Charleston, SC843-501-0566

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Lexington, NC866-629-3784

Charlotte, NC704-431-3710

Raleigh, NC919-773-1424

Columbia, SC888-865-1002

Charleston, SC843-501-0566

Piedmont, SC864-513-8226

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