= Leslie Doggett Industries / Doggett Equipment Services Group =
Leslie Doggett Industries / Doggett Equipment Services Group is a US-based company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. In addition to selling heavy equipment and automobiles, it rents and provides replacement parts and routine maintenance for heavy equipment as well as repairs and support services for heavy equipment and engines of all kinds. Its major brands are John Deere Construction and Forestry Equipment (State of Louisiana, East and South Texas), Toyota Industrial Equipment (forklifts - operating out of Houston and the southern half of Texas), Freightliner Highway and Severe Duty Trucks (a Daimler Trucks North American Company operating out of the State of Arkansas and the Southern half of Texas), LinkBelt Cranes (state of Louisiana) and Ford Automotive, light, super duty and commercial trucks (Greater Houston Market).
Doggett was ranked as Houston's 10th largest private company by the Houston Chronicle in 2017 with 33 full-service heavy equipment dealerships including 4 Freightliner on-highway and vocational trucks dealerships (dump, waste, mixer and trash bodied trucks), 17 John Deere Construction and Forestry Equipment dealerships, 4 Link Belt Crane dealerships, and 7 Toyota Industrial Equipment (forklifts) dealerships. With over $1 billion in sales and 1,300+ full time employees, Doggett is one of North America's largest heavy equipment dealership groups. In June of 2018, Doggett was named 9th private company by the Houston Chronicle for 2018 with a 16 percent increase in growth from 2017. Doggett is family owned without private equity or outside investment.
On May 1, 2018, Doggett Industries made a major move towards its goal to diversify the company by purchasing Lone Star Ford of Houston.