Tommy “Kriss” Ballard's passion for being outdoors, seeing new things, and meeting new people led him to a driving career at an early age—first at 7-Up/RC Cola, then FedEx Ground, then Texas-based Hope Concrete, and now Dolese, where he’s worked as a Concrete Delivery Professional in our Durant Batch Plant for the past 10 years. 

On April 1, we held our first-ever Mixer Truck Rodeo for twelve of our top Concrete Delivery Professionals.

May 7, 2024, marked a significant event for Dolese: for the first time, we loaded rail cars with limestone from our Big Canyon quarry and shipped them to Fort Worth Materials.

Rip rap has become a hot commodity in the North Texas market. Our Coleman Quarry is ramping up to serve that need. 

A new scale house currently under development at our Richards Spur Quarry will strengthen that heartbeat—with benefits for both our employees and customers.

In our business, we work diligently to ensure our equipment is running at an optimal level to create efficiency, produce material at a high volume and meet our customers’ needs. 

“My world is about to get much better,” said Donovan McClure, batchman, as he strode into his new office at the soon-to-be-renovated batch house at the Bixby Batch Plant.

Every day our quarry employees face safety concerns with customer trucks, delivery drivers and visitors. Because our guiding principle of safety applies to everyone, we decided to take our annual safety reminder one step further this year.

With an expansive quarry operation encompassing one square mile, keeping inventory of their enormous aggregate stockpile requires a lot of work. The burdensome and time-consuming task is now a cinch, thanks to the use of drone technology.

Pete Simms joined Dolese Bros. Co. as the Chief Financial Officer on December 14, 2020

On Friday, June 26, 2020, Dolese Bros. Co. (Dolese) acquired 100 percent of the stock of The Quapaw Company.

When Dolese — Oklahoma’s largest supplier of ready-mix concrete, crushed stone, gravel and sand — was looking to give back to the communities it served, it focused on higher education.