Josh Steffy had a backhoe before he had a job to put it on. He was confident that if he got the machine, the customers would eventually come. His mother believed in him, too, and loaned him the money to purchase it.
“I started out doing hourly rentals where I was digging footings, trenches, or whatever else contractors needed,” said Josh, President of Empire Equipment Service. His wife, Lucy, is Vice President of the Riverside, Calif.-based company. “I had experience running equipment from my previous work in commercial masonry. As I was working for other contractors, I realized that I could do a lot of the work they were doing myself.” Just as things were really starting to take off for Empire Equipment Service…
