ucts and services to their customers. DOC
delivers oil, kerosene, propane, bulk wood
pellets, gasoline and diesel; installs and
services heating and cooling systems and
sells alternative heating options. Familiar
brands include DOC, DOC'S Place, DOC
PROPANE and DOC BIOFUEL. DOC's
Place motor fuel locations, eight in total,
are located in Northern Penobscot and
Aroostook counties Maine, and depending on the location, sell gasoline, diesel and
car wash services.
It may have taken one man's vision
to create DOC, but it now takes a team
of 175 employees to run the day to day
operations of the company. At the
helm are partners, Rick Daigle and Dan
Vaillancourt, who continue to develop
and refine the company's product line in
order to meet the various energy demands
of their customers.
The two most recent product additions, as a result of this demand, include
propane in 2010 and bulk pellets in 2012.
DOC delivers both propane and pellets
in bulk and also sells, installs and services
propane and pellet heating equipment,
such as propane tankless water heaters and
pellet boilers.
"Our operation has always included both
motor fuels and heating oil and heating oil
has been and remains a major product for
us," said DOC President Dan Vaillancourt.
"We also sell a substantial amount of commercial diesel through our retail divisions
delivering diesel primarily to the agricultural,
forestry and construction industries."
Vaillancourt noted that while all of its
operational areas are exciting and challenging in different ways, the one that is
most active today in terms of growth is
propane.
"Growing the company's product line
with alternative heating fuels has been
encouraging. About three years ago, we
made the decision to enter the propane
market with our first gallons pumped in
June of 2011," Vaillancourt stated, "and
along with propane we began selling,
installing and servicing propane equipment such as boilers and water heaters.
We've been at it about 2 1/2 years and our
growth has been steady and we've worked
hard on controlling our growth," he said.
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