After steve Lloyd went to his first ACI finisher certification committee meeting he went home and told his wife he wasn't going back because he felt intimidated and also felt that they were just going to talk the subject to death and not really do anything. She told him if it bothered him so much that he should go back and make a difference. "So I did. And I soon learned that I didn't need to be intimidated," he says. "They were all people like me who were only trying to achieve the ultimate concrete floor." In 1973, Steve Lloyd was a former U.S. Navy diver who got a job as a concrete finisher for $10 a day. By 1986, he knew he loved the work but wanted to do more so he started Lloyd Concrete Services with five other concrete workers, all of whom still work for the company. Today, Lloyd Concrete does both flatwork and structural concrete work primarily in the Lynchburg, Va., area but also in 28 states when one of their many loyal customers asks.
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