About Us
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
– Steve Jobs
As one of the most influential business leaders of our time, Steve Jobs says, if you are not passionate about what you do, it will never work. That is exactly the reason why True-Spot was started, to fundamentally change the utility locating industry.
With a combined 58 years of experience in the utility construction industry, True-Spot’s founders started the company with the burning idea that utility locating can and should be done better.
There is an obvious and recurring problem in the utility construction industry. A problem that haunts everyone who’s business involves any type of trenching or excavation. That problem is the unreliable locating of existing utilities. It is estimated that damaged underground utilities cost the US at least 50 billion dollars annually. Let’s let that sink in for a moment. That is a 5 with 10 zeros… Do we just have to accept that we are so unable to protect our existing infrastructure that it sustains $50,000,000,000.00 in damages each year? That is the equivalent of spending $1,000,000.00 per day, each day of the year for 1,370 years straight. We believe the answer should be a resounding “NO!” and that is why True-Spot was started.
True-Spot was started in Oklahoma by 3 utility construction experts. Together, they have a total of 58 years of experience in horizontal directional drilling, excavating and trenching. All three have been heavily involved in underground construction, being a part of nearly every large project in Tulsa and surrounding areas. They have contracted with electrical service providers, telecommunications providers, VOIP providers, electrical contractors, cities and municipalities, plumbing contractors, geothermal contractors, custom pool builders, general contractors, industrial facilities, shopping centers, commercial developments, large scale data centers, schools, churches and everything in between. To say they have a vast knowledge of the utility locating industry and its shortcomings would be an understatement. Their combined customers range from one man shops to multi-state, multi-billion dollar organizations, charities and just about every other size and type of organization you could imagine. All three have substantial experience in horizontal directional drilling on HDD rigs from 5 to 500,000 lbs. Their collective resume includes water, sewer, storm sewer, fire, gas & electric services, distribution, and transmission, telecommunications, ADSS & lashed aerial fiber optic cable, buried fiber, communications conduit, copper, splicing, concrete encased duct-banks, cast in place & prefabricated manholes, lift stations, site lighting… You name it underground, they have most likely quite literally been there, done that. That’s why they are so passionate to help solve not only their problem, but the problem of countless other sectors and industries.
Years of frustration in inadequate, incorrect and often simply incompleted underground utility locating finally hit a little too close to home in 2019. An accident involving a completely un-located underground gas line caused an injury to three first responders. While due diligence was done to avoid this type of situation and despite several updated and second notice locate tickets being called, it was still a very pivotal moment. They really started looking at this problem from a vantage point of, ‘What can we do to help solve this problem, rather than what can we do to help deal with this problem.’ It was a short time later the opportunity presented itself to do just that with a long term customer and they jumped in head first. It is with that zeal that True-Spot was quite literally started based on looking at the market leader and saying, “How do we not suck like them?”
“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.”
– Simon Sinek – Start with Why
So we started making a list. Then we transitioned to really drilling down into the dirty details of each one of the items they had identified. How do we really fix this? And not just stopping there but going further and saying, how do we make sure it’s fixed for good and then going even one step further to what checks can we put in place from day one to ensure that this never happens with True-Spot? So what we’ve done with True-Spot is started out with our systems directly inspired by the answer to our burning, “How do we fix this” question. It’s our “why”. It’s why True-Spot was started. With the burning desire to fix a $50,000,000,000.00 problem. We believe we can do just that and have from the very beginning done everything we can to address the shortcomings of the others in the market. That’s why we are so confident in our services, we are offering our first month completely free of charge to any public utility provider that is like we were when we started True-Spot – fed up with the status quo and questioning if it really had to be this way. Try us out for a full month, at absolutely no cost to you or your organization and see for yourself what everyone else is saying about True-Spot. We are a utility locating and damage prevention company that was started specifically to revolutionize the industry and we want to show you how we can be of service to you and your assets while doing so.