COMPANY PROFILE
Building
on a
Legacy
ROC Equipment
By Barb Feldman
According to Becho company lore, Lou Lucido started
his specialty contracting company in 1979 with
$300 and a pick-up truck. When the company was
sold in 2011, it had grown to a multimillion-dollar
foundation drilling business specializing in drilled shaft installation,
shoring, underpinning, dewatering and blasting.
In the 1990s, while still running Becho, Lou Lucido began
looking for a manufacturer who could build the equipment
he wanted to use for Becho’s foundation projects. The search
took Lucido all over the world, and in 1999 he began working
with South Korea’s BUMA to design and manufacture equipment
for his own company. In 2007, Lucido formed ROC
Equipment to sell the equipment he and BUMA developed
together. Today, ROC is the sole North American distributor
of BUMA’s equipment, which is also sold worldwide.
The company sells new and used heavy construction and
specialty foundation drilling equipment such as casing oscillators,
rotators, drill rigs and cranes. It has offices in Salt Lake
City, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada, with six full-time employees
and eight or more part-time consultants available for
specific projects.
“As well as selling this equipment, we’re pioneering in the
whole market of renting and leasing these units, particularly
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