Ball & Son Excavation Started With One Kenworth W900L, Fleet Has Grown To 25 Kenworth Trucks

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Dontel Ball, owner of Ball & Son Excavation, stands in front of his company’s Kenworth trucks. (Photo courtesy of Kenworth.)

When owner Dontel Ball founded Ball & Son Excavation in 2011, one of his first investments was a 1992 Kenworth W900L dump truck. “I put everything I had into acquiring my first truck. Once the truck was in my possession, I had to hustle to find work,” Ball says. “I made a lot of phone calls and bid on projects at a lower price than what other companies were offering. In the end, it paid off. Many of the companies we did business with when the company first started, we still work with today.”

Ball & Son Excavation quickly established a reputation as a reliable transport provider. In recent years, the company has worked on some of the biggest construction projects in Puget Sound region of Washington state, including building expansions for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft; the runway expansion at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; and construction for the Sound Transit Light Rail project. Ball & Son Excavation’s trust in Kenworth is made clear by its all-Kenworth fleet, which has grown to 25 trucks.

Kenworth Through & Through

Ball still owns the 1992 Kenworth W900L dump truck he purchased when he started the company. “I’ve always loved long-hood models, which is why I wanted my first truck to be a W900L,” he says. “It’s a great-looking truck.”

Ball & Son Excavation’s fleet consists of Kenworth T800, W900, and T880 dump trucks equipped with 30-ton (27.2-metric-ton) dump bodies that also haul side-dump trailers. Kenworth’s vocational trucks have always been Ball’s favorites.

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Kenworth’s vocational truck models are a perfect fit for the aggregate and material hauling work of Ball & Son Excavation. (Photo courtesy of Kenworth.)

“I drove a lot of different truck makes earlier in my career and thought that trucks produced by Kenworth were the most versatile and best overall vocational trucks in the business,” says Ball. “When I started my company, I knew I only wanted the best, and that’s Kenworth.”

More On The W900L

With 130 inches from the bumper to the back of the cab, the W900L has the unmistakable look of Kenworth’s long-nose hood, which in addition to looking great provides plenty of space for Kenworth to install its highest-horsepower engines. The front axle is rated for up to 18,000 pounds (8,165 kilograms), and operators can select among liftable pusher and tag axles, as well as single, tandem, and tridem drives. The W900L can also be equipped with Kenworth’s 86-inch Studio Sleeper AeroCab, with more leg room and more than 7 feet of headroom to give drivers the space to stand up, stretch out, and relax.

Source: Kenworth