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Kevin Tresso
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Kevin Tresso

Kevin Tresso Concrete Dispatcher Ready-mix dispatcher is using valuable life lessons to steer his future. Cleveland-Cliffs, North America’s biggest flat-rolled steel company, is a leading supplier of automotive-grade steel. When the company broke ground for its Direct Reduction facility in Toledo a few years back, the expansive construction project involved some significant concrete pours. One continuous pour required more than 4,900 cubic yards of ready mix in a single day. Meeting such an aggressive timeframe would require deploying every mixer truck in Gerken’s extensive fleet—along with some third-party vehicles—and ensuring just-in-time delivery of every load to the job site. “It was a huge logistical challenge, and the pour took over twelve hours to complete,” recalls Kuhlman Corporation’s Kevin Tresso, a concrete dispatcher on the Cleveland-Cliffs project. “But we got it done successfully.” Kevin began working at Gerken as a mixer driver for Williams Concrete in 2014. He planned to leave…
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