Bryan Marks started working when he was only 8 years old. His job was to pick up the loose trash that had blown off the Venice Park Landfill his family owned in Lennon, Michigan. By the time he was 10, he was running bulldozers, loaders and off-road trucks.

The Beginning of the TracStar®: The first TracStar® made its debut in 1997 at the Phelps Dodge mine in Morenci, Ariz., one of the largest copper mines in the world. The self-propelled, self-contained, track-mounted 500mm fusion machine took on the rugged terrain with great success.