Family and Locally Owned · In Business Since 1985
About Aaron Concrete Contractors
Since 1985, Aaron Concrete Contractors has built highway road construction and concrete services in central Texas and the surrounding areas. That one sentence undersells forty years of it. What follows is what the sentence actually means: the work the crews run, the two yards they run it out of, and the people who answer the phone at each one.
The company is a member of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Associated General Contractors of Texas, runs under US DOT 1792021 and TX DOT 000048022C, and works in English and Spanish. There is no founder legend on this page and no headcount, because the work is the thing worth talking about and the crews are the ones who do it.
STA 0+00 · The two yards
Heavy civil, not driveways
Aaron Concrete builds roadway, not patios. Heavy civil means the crews work for public agencies, general contractors and developers on the infrastructure underneath a city rather than the concrete in front of a house. That is highway and roadway construction, underground utilities and box culvert, slip form barrier wall, curb and gutter, earthwork and grading, and highway rail and riprap. There is no stamped concrete or decorative overlay in that list, and there never has been. The company does not quote residential driveways.
The business runs two yards, two hundred miles apart, and they do different work. The corporate office and yard sits at 4108 Nixon Lane in Austin, where the road crews stage. A second yard, two hundred miles south at 3274 Highway 35 in Aransas Pass, runs a crusher and screen train that turns clean concrete rubble back into base material and sells it by the load. One business, two revenue lines, and for a long time only one of them had a page.
STA 20+00 · Who answers the phone
Dale Detten
Estimating, Road Construction, Earthwork and Rail
Send road construction, earthwork and rail packages to dale@aaronconcrete.com, or call (512) 926-7326 between 7am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Bob Tomlinson
Estimating, Utilities and Earthwork
Send utilities and earthwork packages to bob@aaronconcrete.com, same phone number, same hours.
The company has never published an individual owner, and this page will not name one. Dale and Bob are who a general contractor or a public agency actually reaches when they call, and that is a more useful fact than a name on a letterhead nobody else can verify.
STA 40+00 · Membership
Two AGC chapters, one DOT number for each yard's fleet
Aaron Concrete is a member of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Associated General Contractors of Texas. Membership in both is not a badge on a wall. It ties the company to a set of safety, bidding and labor standards that public agency work already expects, and it is the kind of association a general contractor checks before it hands a subcontract to a company it has not worked with yet.
The trucks running out of both yards carry US DOT 1792021 and TX DOT 000048022C. That number is on the door of the fleet in the photograph beside this paragraph, and it has not changed.
STA 60+00 · The week
Monday to Friday, seven to six, and that is not a preference
Both yards keep the same hours: Mon - Fri: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Sat - Sun: Closed. That schedule lines up with when public agencies and general contractors themselves work, which is who most of this company's calls come from. A crew building a live roadway also coordinates around traffic control windows the client sets, not around whatever hours would be convenient for the crew, so the office hours that make it easy to reach an estimator during the business day matter more here than they would for a company that only ever talks to homeowners in the evening.
STA 80+00 · On the job site
English and Spanish, on every crew
The company lists English and Spanish as its working languages, and it says so plainly on its own job-site materials. On a Texas highway job that is not a courtesy line. Traffic control, form setting and finish work all depend on a crew that hears an instruction the same way the first time, whether the person giving it is on the plan sheet or standing next to the mixer chute. A crew that only works in one language on a job site that speaks two is a slower crew, and a less safe one.
STA 99+00 · What to look at next
Two yards. Seven services. One number for each.
The full scope of what the crews build is on the services page. Each yard has its own address, phone number and hours on its own location page.