Leslie Doggett Industries Enhances Eagle Shale Trucking Capability

Jan. 10, 2014

Houston-based Deere dealer Leslie Doggett Industries has acquired several South Texas heavy equipment and truck companies for $30 million, mysanantonio.com reports. The acquisitions enhance Doggett’s footprint in the fast-growing Eagle Ford shale region, with service centers and dealerships in San Antonio, Laredo and McAllen.

Doggett Truck Group, a division of Leslie Doggett Industries, made the acquisitions, which include three Freightliner and one Western Star Truck dealership.

Doggett has 18 John Deere dealerships and provides construction and forestry products for Louisiana, East and Southeast Texas and the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Brownsville.