About

D&G was started in 1972 by Donald and Gloria Stone. Donald built a small shop behind his house on Airline Road in Henderson, Kentucky to work on other people's vehicles. Sometime after that he purchased a Ford truck with a Holmes wrecker bed and used it at his shop and for local tows. Always being a Chevy person, he got rid of the Ford as soon as he was able to do so and upgraded with more wreckers and a bigger garage. In 1986 he purchased his first big wrecker which was a GMC General with a Holmes 750 Bed. The bigger wrecker led him to buy a semi-truck to help out his friends Dale and Bart Sights who had just started Sights Denim Systems in the late eighties it was the beginning of the stone wash jean fad and Dale called on his old friend to ship stone washed jeans all over the east coast and mid-west. In 1989 his daughter Michelle Springer had graduated with a teaching degree and joined full time at the family business. In 1991, Michelle and her husband Mark Springer bought their first truck. Mark was working in management at Gibbs Aluminum Die Casting in Henderson. He left Gibbs in January 1996 to work in the family business. At about the same time, the die-cast company which had their own trucks decided they would contract the trucking out and the business began to grow. In 1996 Audubon Metals opened in Henderson along with Tyson Foods which created even more growth for the small business. Donald and Gloria decided to retire in 2004 and sold the business to Mark and Michelle. Since that time the business had flourished with the growth of Audubon Metals and Tyson Foods. D&G still hauls live chickens and feed and aluminum to die casters throughout the country. In 2016 D&G added heavy-duty tow trucks to local and long-distance towing and heavy-duty recovery. A body shop was also added that year as Bobby Waddle decided to sell his semi-truck body shop and manage the body shop for D&G Specialized. In 2024 we plan on expanding to truck service work and heavy-duty roadside repair.