Third generation, still moving dirt

Who runs American Dirt Delivery?

His grandfather, Jerry Sr., founded multiple motocross tracks in Texas and promoted races in the Astrodome. His father, Jerry Jr., raced motocross professionally. Jerry grew up watching his dad race and playing on the industrial tractors used to maintain his grandfather's tracks. His favourite machine was, and still is, the front-end loader, which he started driving at 9 years old. He has been moving dirt ever since.

Jerry learned the hard way that trustworthy dirt delivery is hard to come by. He went to work for a friend who was selling dirt and realised the owner was pocketing customers' money while making good on about half his promised deliveries. Around 5 days after he started asking questions, Jerry left the company with thousands of dollars missing from his own account because of hot cheques. That is why this business exists.

American Dirt Delivery is rooted in trustworthy practices and keeps transparency and dependability at all times. Our reviews are real, our phone number will not change, and we go the extra mile on service. With the help of Javier, his sales manager, Jerry's aim is to raise the standard of an industry that has not earned much benefit of the doubt.

Why does the company exist?

What does a third generation dirt background actually buy you?

Track building is a strange apprenticeship for a dirt business and it turns out to be a good one. A motocross jump face has to hold a shape under load, in the wet and in the dry, with a machine running over it at speed. You learn very quickly which materials hold a lip when they dry and which ones slump, and you learn it by watching your work fail on a Saturday in front of people.

That is the same question a customer is really asking when they call about a berm, a pad or a pond bank. Will this material stay where I put it. Clay fill hardens as it dries and holds its form, which is why tracks are shaped out of it and why it is the right answer for anything you want to keep a profile. Topsoil stays friable, which is why grass grows in it and why you should never build anything structural out of it.

It also means we have a view about machines. If you have 40 cubic yards landing on your driveway and no loader, that is a problem worth solving before the truck arrives rather than after. Tell us and we will talk about where the load should be tipped so you are not barrowing it 80 feet.

How the company is set up

We are a Texas company running in 8 states, which has a practical consequence worth being upfront about. Our Texas markets are our home markets, delivered from stock. Our markets outside Texas run at the end of a longer line, so lead times and available material can differ, and the furthest of them are sourced to the cheapest supply on large orders.

What does not differ is the standard for what comes off the truck. Clean dirt is clean dirt in Miami the same as it is in Houston, the 20 cubic yard minimum applies everywhere, and the 20 percent deposit terms are the same in every metro. We contract to third-party carriers on some runs, which is why the rule about never paying a driver directly is printed on every page of this site.

What does clean dirt actually mean?

It is the first question every contractor asks and it is the one thing we will not compromise on, so it is worth being precise about what the words mean. Clean means no construction debris: no concrete, no rebar, no asphalt, no bricks, no trash, no buried timber.

Clean does not mean screened. Fill dirt is a bulk material and it runs chunkier than topsoil by nature, and it may contain some organic matter. That is normal for fill and it is a completely different thing from a load with rubble through it. If your job needs material screened to a size, tell us before you order and we will tell you honestly whether we can source it for your address.

The reason this matters commercially is simple. A contaminated load is a load you pay a second person to take away again, and you pay the trucking on it twice. At roughly 90 percent of a load's cost being the truck, a dirty 40 cubic yard delivery is an expensive mistake that shows up weeks later when somebody hits rebar with a compactor.

Why do we hold the phone number and the address back?

If you are reading this site before launch you will see a visible token where the phone number and the postal address should be. That is deliberate and it is worth explaining, because it says something about how we work.

More than one phone number and more than one address are currently in circulation across the old site and the Google Business Profile. A business's name, address and phone number has to appear identically everywhere it is published, because search engines use those 3 strings to decide whether 2 listings describe the same business. Publishing a second version of either one does measurable harm that then takes months to unpick.

So rather than guess and look tidy, we are holding both until Jerry confirms which is correct, and then they appear everywhere on this site at once from a single file. The same rule applies to pricing. The old shop shows tier prices with no unit printed anywhere on the page, so we are not going to publish a number we cannot state the unit for.

What we will not put on this page

The company has been delivering dirt since 2020. We are not going to put a load count or a customer number on this page, because we are not going to publish a figure we cannot show you the receipts for.

You will not find invented testimonials here, a made-up number of happy customers, or a list of certifications we have not verified. Every supplier in this trade claims to be the honest one. The only way to demonstrate it is to be boring about the facts and let the deliveries speak.

What we will tell you: we have been delivering dirt since 2020, we run 15 metros across 8 states, our minimum order is 20 cubic yards, our deposit is 20 percent down, and our office hours are Mon-Sat 8am-5pm.