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About Our Founder, Ed Staub
He Loved His Trucks!
“My favorite part of this business is driving the trucks. And let me tell you, I miss it!” — Ed Staub, in a recent interview from his home in Alturas, California.
Edward A. Staub was born in Ironton, Minnesota and moved to Northern California with his parents Walter and Helen Staub, where they started their family fuel business with the purchase of the Beiber Chevron Bulk Plant in 1952. At age 17, Ed began driving trucks, hauling lumber to a mill and driving for his father during the summers. He still fondly remembers the first truck he ever drove: “a Ford F800 with a 5 & 3 Brownie transmission.”
Having grown up in the family fuel business, Ed understood the complex energy needs of the rapidly growing American Northwest. In 1959, he purchased the Chevron bulk plant in Alturas, California and founded Ed Staub & Sons. At that time, there were six bulk pla nts in Alturas-ARCO, Mobil, Shell, Texaco, Union 76 and Chevron. Through hard work and an unwavering commitment to customer service, Ed Staub & Sons quickly became the biggest fuel and lubes distributor of them all. The company continued to grow, adding the Cedarville Bulk Plant in 1965 and a Lakeview, Oregon facility in 1977. Just as Ed started out with his father, Ed’s two sons, Dave and Brad, went to work driving for the family business. When Ed Staub & Sons purchased their first tanker transport, the three kept up with demand by driving that truck around the clock.
In the 1980’s, Ed Staub & Sons expanded into the cardlock and propane business by acquiring CalGas. With a Chevron dealership in Silverlake, Oregon, as well as Mobil and Texaco plants in Alturas, Ed Staub & Sons next moved into Tulelake, California extending the Chevron and Texaco brands. During the 1990’s, Ed Staub broadened its range of services adding 9 convenience stores and clea  n burning oil stove lines. During this decade the company also incorporated the Fall River, Susanville and Burns Bulk Plants, and Eddies Truck Stop and Chevron Station/Food Mart in Burns. In the most recent decade, Ed and his sons added a Bulk Plant in Crescent, Oregon as well as Propane Plants in John Day, Oregon, LaGrande, Oregon, Enterprise, Oregon and Nampa, Idaho.
“Service, Hard Work and Honesty,” is the business philosophy Ed cites for keeping the company growing for 50 years. “That’s what I’ve always tried to provide,” he continues, “and I expect it from each and every employee. I trust the judgment of my family and know they will carry on that tradition. That’s what my dad taught me and that’s what I taught my children.”
The company’s transport division, now named “Ed’s Trucking,” will keep Ed out on the road, where he loves to be, for years to come. He considers everyone who works for Ed Staub & Sons to be family. Like his family, we follow his example of hard work, pure and simple. It’s why we’ve been in business 50 years and it’s why we’re here today—to serve our customer.
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Propane Referrals Rewards Program
$25 off your next bill per qualified propane customer you refer to Ed Staub & Sons.
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