Fleet Supply Evolving, Growing
July 17, 2018
Old-Fashioned Charm With Modern Convenience
July 17, 2018
WRITTEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BUCKHORN COMPANIES, LLC
Starting as a small equipment rental company in 2012, Houma’s Buckhorn Companies LLC has grown to become a successful conglomerate whose services are used around the world.
“We started off as a rental company with the intention of turning it into a service company, providing the services with the same rental equipment,” says Bert Leboeuf Jr., president and co-founder of Buckhorn. “So instead of just renting the equipment, we started providing the people for the jobs, which seemed to work out pretty well. We probably had six or seven guys. Right now, total employees, we have about 145.”
With their four companies (Buckhorn Rentals, Buckhorn Services, Buckhorn Professional, Barracuda Specialty Services), Buckhorn offers a wide variety of services that include equipment rentals, bolt torqueing and tensioning, pressure testing, field machining, pipeline flushing, radiography, phase array, and more.
Although it’s a Houma company, Buckhorn’s expertise and execution has led them to work in other states: Georgia, Texas (has an office in Port Arthur), New Mexico, etc. They also have successfully completed jobs in South Africa and Canada, under extreme conditions.
“Our job as salespeople is to go out and get the first job. The only job the salesperson really ever gets is the first job. The guys that are out in the field doing the job get the second, third, fourth, fifth, and six jobs because they did a good job,” Bert says.
Bert and the two other partners of Buckhorn, Jaime Triche and Dale Prosperie, have worked well together since the company was established.
“Every day, the three of us wake up just as happy as we were the first day we were in business. We’ve never had an argument amongst ourselves, and it can get rocky sometimes,” Bert says.
Because it started off with a small staff, the three partners hustled any way they could to make sure their customers received quality service: answering calls, delivering equipment, cleaning equipment, etc. Their compatibility and desire to prosper has formed the dedicated, hardworking culture Buckhorn still instills today.
“We have to maintain that. We have to all still be just as excited as we were six years ago when the phone rings. I think our customers know that,” Bert says.
Bert later continues to speak on the appreciation of the smaller issues their customers might have. He says, too, if someone loses sight of the importance of the little things, then they won’t care about the big things either.
The partners started this now global company, but know they didn’t get it to where it is now by themselves. They appreciate the hard work their entire staff has done and continues to do.
“You’re successful because of what your team has done. If you think that it’s all because of you, I think you’re foolish. I think anybody that’s successful, if they want to be honest with themselves, they got to see they’ve had a lot of help. You had a lot of help from friends, from customers, and from the people that you work with,” Bert says. “If we’re going to continue to be successful we got to take care of them, so they continue to take care of us.” •
