CEG - Thu February 15, 2024
Gregory Poole Equipment Company Opens GP Rental Store
In keeping with its mission to enhance its customer experience and grow its brand's footprint, Raleigh, N.C.-based Gregory Poole Equipment Company opened its newest GP Rental store in the state's capital city on Jan....
CEG - Thu February 01, 2024
Gregory Poole Cat Celebrates Its Latest N.C. Store Opening
Gregory Poole Equipment Company, a Raleigh-based construction equipment company, held a grand opening of its newest store Jan. 22, 2024, in Sanford, N.C., the distributorship's ninth construction location in the eastern half of the Tarheel State and its first location in Sanford....
Patricia O’Brien – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed March 29, 2023
Fountain Quarry's Trish Harrell Digs New Trails in Industry
"If you have the drive to do something, no matter what anyone tells you and contrary to what society says, if you're good at it and you like it, just do it," says Trish Harrell, who will tell any woman who asks her about taking a job operating heavy equipment....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu June 23, 2022
GP Rental Opens Unique Location to Serve Contractors
At the construction site of a gigantic new biotech facility in Holly Springs, N.C., contractors now have quick-time access to a facility that can supply the equipment and services they need to keep the project running apace....
CEG - Thu June 09, 2022
Gregory Poole Equipment Company Hosts Operator Challenge
Gregory Poole Equipment Company and the other Caterpillar dealers in the country are on a quest to find the best — the best equipment operator in the world. The local winner, Ben Sandy with Sandy's Hauling & Backhoe Service Inc....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu April 28, 2022
Gregory Poole's Ben Bradsher Retires After 50 Years of Service
Contractors, farmers and forestry experts working in the eastern half of North Carolina have long relied on Raleigh-based Gregory Poole Equipment Company to supply them with needed machines, tools and services....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu June 10, 2021
New Tools Help Ideal Landscaping 'Make the Grade'
One thing is certain about Ideal Landscaping's project at Hoover Road Park in Durham, N.C.: The Triangle company employs some of the best tools on the market to perform its grading project at the 50-acre soccer park....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 29, 2021
Gregory Poole Equipment 70 Years … and Counting
Seventy years of success didn't just happen for Gregory Poole Equipment Company. The eastern North Carolina Caterpillar dealership's success has come from being well-grounded as an organization from its founding in 1951 and from being able to adapt to evolving — sometimes abruptly changing — circumstances....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu September 17, 2020
U.S. 70 Havelock Bypass: Another Upgrade to Critical North Carolina Corridor
Although not an interstate highway, U.S. Highway 70 in eastern North Carolina is steadily being transformed into one. The highway is already one of the state's most critical transportation arteries. Most of the route across the length of the state is made up of four lanes, while some sections have been converted to freeways....
CEG - Mon October 21, 2019
Gregory Poole Equipment Company's North Carolina Demo Day
Gregory Poole Equipment Company held a product demonstration on Oct. 2 featuring the Caterpillar Next Generation dozers, excavators, compact track loaders and skid steer loaders at Caterpillar's Clayton, N.C., facility....
