In the late 90s, the fast and furious fiber backbone build-out forever changed the underground construction industry. The cutthroat race to install fiber trunk lines across America resulted in a construction boom like the industry had never known, and made horizontal directional drilling a staple in the utility contractor's toolbox.rnHDD, primarily small rigs, was the perfect technology at the right time.rnOf course, the inevitable bust that started in late 2000 forced manufacturers to radically cut back their operations and forced some to leave the business. It is also credited with sending as many as 30 percent of the HDD contractors to bankruptcy court. Still, the HDD industry survived, continued to evolve and today is a proven technology for an increasingly wide variety of applications. Even more importantly, for a growing number of utility contractors, HDD has become so commonplace that they "don't leave home without it."
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