Roy Houck Construction

Reviews

• SS

  Sam S.

  Aug 15, 2025
  1.0
  I had an unsatisfactory, near-threatening experience with a Roy Houck Construction road crew Monday afternoon, 8/11/25. I stopped for a flagger at the intersection at which I would normally turn right to reach my home. She asked, “Where are you going?”. I told her I needed to turn right to go home. ‘You can’t go that way!” she said. “I live down there. How am I going to get home?” I asked. “I don’t know when they’ll be done,” she answered. Flippant tone. (No mention of a pilot car. No signs. Nothing.) “Maybe you can go around somehow.” “How far down has the paving been done?” I asked. (The flagger stop was several yards from the corner so I couldn’t see the extent of the road work.) “All the way down,” she said. Snippy now. Condescending. “Well, then all the alternate routes are probably blocked, too” I said, “my truck doesn’t fly. Why can’t I drive down the unpaved northbound side?” (I could see the mouth of the intersection and – at that time – only the southbound side had been worked on. The northbound side was still a loosely-packed gravel bed.) “I’ll write you a ticket!” she said. Aggressive now. In the meantime, a small blue car behind me was trapped between my rear bumper and the car behind it. The driver was motioning that they wanted to pull out and continue straight. I pulled ahead exactly 31 inches. (I measured the distance this morning on my way to work.) She immediately barked into her communication device. “He’s going to go down the street!!!!” Rather dramatic since I’d already come to a stop and the blue car was now moving around me and was being motioned through the intersection. Next, a little golf cart drove up. Two men in reflector vests. They parked in the entrance of a service road, and a young Hispanic man approached my truck. No name tags or branded outerwear. I had no idea who they were, what firm they worked for, etc. I imagine they were all contracted, outsourced temp workers. All bad signs of a substandard firm with no concern about standards of professional conduct. (If Roy Houck Construction even maintains standards.) “That was a dangerous thing [My moving forward 2-1/2 feet?? He and his companion were not there to see the event, so I wondered what he was even referring to.] you did. I can write you a ticket.” Now, this was the second time in less than two minutes a Roy Houck Construction crew member threatened me with a ticket. Both instances while I was completely stopped, completely in compliance with the commands I’d been given and waiting for whenever clearance was given to proceed up the street I live on. I said, “Go right ahead.” He went on to make a big show of walking around my truck and snapping a photo of my rear license plate. At this point, it was clear he was showing off for the cute flagger girl. Then the predictable passive-aggressive comment, “I was trying to be nice.” THE MOST DISTURBING part of this little episode was when the man returned to the golf cart after snapping his photo, sat behind the wheel and broke into the most maniacal rictus grin I’ve seen outside a horror movie. He bobbed his head up and down like a bobble-head doll while leering at me. This went on for several minutes, punctuated by him hollering out imprecations and taunts to me. “Just hold on boy!” (!!!!!) He got out of the golf cart and removed a water bottle from a rear cooler, turning towards me and gyrating his body in a taunting way. Finally, a pilot car arrived and led me along with a procession of other cars northbound on the sealed road. This experience was entirely unacceptable. I am disappointed that my town retained the services of such an unprofessional contractor and will be issuing complaints to the city, the county sheriff’s department and the CCB.
• ES

  Erick Sackhoff

  Jun 10, 2024
  1.0
  Company thinks it’s cool to stop people for 15-20 minutes on back hill roads, and not put a sign at the top of the road saying construction, expect long waits…….