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Family Owned | The Early Days | Location | Delivery | Present Day | The Future
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DELIVERY
The company began as a two horse operation. Today it boasts a modern fleet of automatic unloading block trucks, semi trucks, trucks with all-terrain forklifts attached, and dump trucks of all sizes.
In the early 1900's concrete blocks and other materials were hauled to job sites on a wagon pulled by a team of horses. Eventually this mode of transportation gave way to motor-driven trucks. In fact, Ideal is credited with owning the first truck south of Brookside Park in Cleveland. These motor-driven trucks were able to haul about 300 concrete blocks at a time. The driver and his helper had to load the truck in our yard and then deliver the blocks to the construction site. At the construction site the driver and helper would hand unload by hand the 300 blocks and slide them down into a newly excavated basement on a wet or muddy board. Laborers would catch the blocks and carry them around the basement readying them for brick laying crews. The delivery team could only make one to two loads per day.
Around the 1950's a new innovation changed this delivery process drastically. Trucks were made with hydraulic boom unloading equipment. This equipment eliminated the need for all the labor which was previously used. These trucks would pick up cubes of conctete blocks and set them down in a newly excavated basement. The blocks would then be ready for bricklayers to start laying. The blocks were no longer handled by people until the bricklayer picked them up to apply mortar to them. These newer type of trucks have evolved into very high tech expensive pieces of equipment costing over $160,000 each today. They are able to haul 1200 blocks per load and a driver can make three or four deliveries a day.
click here to view a movie clip of our delivery fleet
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