{"id":433,"date":"2019-10-01T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/?p=433"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:29:54","slug":"oakley-dishes-the-good-dirt-on-big-time-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/other-news\/2019\/10\/01\/oakley-dishes-the-good-dirt-on-big-time-sports\/433\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakley Dishes the Dirt on Big-Time Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Al Muskewitz
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Like most American sports fans, Oakley Trucking operations manager Nick Dulaney will find himself watching some of the MLB playoffs at some point over the next month. Maybe it\u2019ll be the game that clinches a team the pennant or even the World Series itself. 
 
And if there’s a play at the plate or a bang-bang play on the bases, he’ll watch with a little more interest because he knows his company had a part in getting that field in shape for the big game.
 
Dulaney and Oakley have moved material for building and sprucing up major-league and college stadiums all over the country. They\u2019ve even moved bunker sand for some of the top golf courses on the PGA Tour.
 
It\u2019s \u201cjust a fraction\u201d of the North Little Rock carrier\u2019s dry bulk hauling business, but it\u2019s one of the neatest.
 
\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a sense of pride,\u201d Dulaney said. \u201cIt gives you a connection with the sporting event.\u201d
 
Oakley has moved material for at least six major-league baseball teams (including the 2019 playoff-bound Yankees, Astros and Braves), several spring training sites, the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 new practice facility and sporting venues at the universities of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Tennessee. It also has brought sand to major golf championship courses at Medinah in Illinois and Oak Tree in Oklahoma. They\u2019ve even had inquiries from TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, home of the College World Series.
 
Of course, a lot of the deliveries take place during off-season restoration, but sometimes there\u2019s an emergency need \u2013 like dressing up the stadium for the bright lights of the Fall Classic.
 
Oakley\u2019s owner-operators have hauled infield mix, mound clay and warning track material to the baseball parks, special sand for artificial turf, ground rubber for track projects and various grades of bunker sand for golf courses.
 
\u201cI\u2019ve seen them haul ball dirt all the way across the country,\u201d Dulaney said.
 
Because of the wide variety of commodities they haul year-round, Oakley\u2019s drivers don\u2019t experience much slow time, making the overall operation about as recession proof as you can get.
 
Sometimes when Dulaney quotes a job he doesn\u2019t know where the load is headed at first, but if it\u2019s to a major sports venue it always gets the driver who catches it excited if he\u2019s a big sports fan.
 
\u201cWhen a major-league team gives you a load and they tell you what\u2019s going on it creates a little buzz,\u201d Dulaney said. \u201cIf the guys have the truck outside the stadium or they\u2019re inside unloading, that\u2019s always a good photo opp. It\u2019ll be on their Facebook page. It definitely makes our calendar.\u201d
 
Al Muskewitz is editor-in-chief for Wright Media. He can be reached at musky@wrightmediacorp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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