Toyota Lift of Houston in 1994, Doggett's first location.

Overview

From its beginning at its Houston Toyota Industrial Equipment store in 1993 (with 18 employees, including 9 technicians), Doggett has grown to 2000+ full time employees, including 700+ determined, factory-trained technicians servicing multiple brands, all of which are either number 1 or number 2 in their respective industries. Doggett operates equipment dealerships servicing Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico with 55+ dealerships and annual sales exceeding $2 billion.

Doggett is a privately held, locally-owned, managed and operated company without private equity or financial partners. How have we grown to be one of North America’s largest equipment distributors in the past 20 years? We bring a local business’s work ethic and focus all of our efforts everyday on our customers’ UPTIME. UPTIME is everything to us and our NUMBER 1 PRIORITY is to make sure your UPTIME is unmatched—we keep our promises made in the dirt and on the front lines, which is rarely replicated by others.

Doggett Material Handling/Forklift Division

Headed by Andy Reynolds

Good friends since childhood, Leslie Doggett and Brady Carruth, acquired Toyota Lift of Houston from Gulf States Toyota in 1993. Doggett’s sales and operations background combined with Carruth’s finance and insurance background, created a partnership that had a solid business foundation and was eager for growth. With 18 employees, Doggett and Carruth set out to grow Toyota forklift sales and service consistent with their philosophy: guarantee customer’s uptime of equipment on an at-risk basis (see Philosophy).

Toyota Lift of Houston’s market share quickly rose from 7% to more than 40% in certain forklift classes. Today, Doggett’s material handling business, through acquisitions of south and west Texas dealerships, is the largest and highest volume Toyota Industrial Dealer in the United States.

Doggett Construction & Forestry Division

Headed by Mike Ortiz

Capitalizing on the expertise developed in its successful material handling and Case Construction and Agriculture equipment businesses (Doggett was Case CE’s largest dealer in North America when that business was sold in 1999), Doggett acquired distribution rights for John Deere Construction Equipment. Starting with the south Texas market (2005), and later expanding into the entire State of Louisiana and east Texas (2007), Doggett eventually was awarded distribution rights for the greater Houston market, acquiring the existing Houston John Deere Construction dealership from Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ: RUSHA & RUSHB). Now, Doggett is the exclusive John Deere Construction dealer for the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Brownsville, and from east Texas to McAllen, becoming one of the 3 largest John Deere dealers in the United States.

Doggett Highway and Severe Duty Truck Division

Headed by Paul Burk

Doggett acquired the distribution rights for Freightliner and Western Star Trucks in 2013 with dealerships in San Antonio, McAllen/Pharr and Laredo. In 2014 Doggett acquired the truck division from Stewart & Stevenson (Formerly NYSE: SNS) adding a Freightliner dealership in El Paso. In 2018, Doggett acquired privately-held Truck Centers of Arkansas giving Doggett distribution rights for all Freightliner and Western Star branded trucks and parts for most counties in the State of Arkansas with full service sales and leasing dealerships in Little Rock, Fayetteville and Van Buren. In 2019, Doggett acquired privately-held Truck Enterprises Inc. (founded in 1980), an authorized Western Star, Detroit Diesel and extreme heavy duty trailer dealer located in El Paso, Texas and Carlsbad, New Mexico, giving Doggett its third location in El Paso, Texas and adding Carlsbad, New Mexico. The Doggett Truck team substantially grew revenue and profitability and, in just three years of operation, was recognized by Successful Dealer Magazine as one of the top 3 dealership group in the nation measured against all brands and all dealers.

Doggett Crane Services Division

Headed by Derek Paternostro

Doggett was appointed the Link-Belt Crane distributor for the State of Louisiana including Rough Terrain, Telescopic Truck, Truck Terrain, All Terrain, Lattice Crawlers and Telescopic Crawlers. LinkBelt Cranes are sold and serviced from Doggett dealerships in New Orleans (Kenner), Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport.

Doggett stubbornly strives to be the service and support supplier of choice to heavy equipment users in all of the markets we serve. That is, to provide repair and maintenance services on all competitive brands on a guaranteed and measurable basis which, in the end, allows the end user to spend more time on direct business requirements/needs while allowing Doggett to become their trusted equipment specialist/partner.

The backbone of this philosophy and culture is our team of world-class technicians and hard-working support team whose quality of work and strength of promise mean everything. As our customer’s UPTIME is the single most critical statistic we know, the strength of character found in our technicians and support team is key. It is key because the ultimate responsibility for UPTIME is on their shoulders, the shoulders of the men and women in the dirt with the machine. Doggett separates itself from the crowd with these unique/guaranteed/on-time services and high quality repairs which allow Doggett to earn a fair return on the value we create for our coveted customers/partners.