User:Randal Hill

Randy Hill is a Texas entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist who grew up in the small Dallas County suberb town of Garland. Born Randal Wayne Hill on September 26th 1967 in Dallas, he is a second generation Texan who watched as his father Gary Hill became one of the nations top corporate ethics officers. Randy received his first undergraduate degree from Abilene Christian University in 1990. Five years later, he launched his first company with Advanced Trailer Leasing and Sales LTD. As one of the early pioneers in the semi-trailer and cargo container rental and sales business in Dallas, his company soon became one of the largest in the Southwest. When Hill realized that the semi-trailers he sold could be used to dry peanuts, he began developing specialty modifications for existing used trailers. Soon, his company was not only a leader in the industry, but developing new industries. In 2002, Randy sold the Irving-based rental fleet but retained the company name and sales business. In 2003, he transformed his trailer companies into APT AdvancedTrailer and Equipment LP, which he continues leading today as President and CEO. In April 2004, Randy officially expanded his operations by opening a peanut trailer manufacturing plant in Vienna, Georgia. The move was designed to capitalize on the vast opportunity in the South Eastern United States where 85% of the nation’s peanut crop is grown. GE has said “What Hill has done is nothing less than revolutionizes an entire industry.” Today, Advanced Trailer has over 3,000 drying trailers in service in all ten U.S. peanut- producing states. They are also used to dry almonds in California and seed in Kansas. In 2007 APT began to explore the possibilities of using their patent-pending drying trailers to remove moisture from woody biomass products. In April 2009, Randy announced that APT would provide equipment and funding for a research grant to the University of Idaho. The grant is being used to implement the use of Advanced Trailers at the college’s biomass steam boiler plant at their campus in Moscow, Idaho. In October, another APT grant award was announced to Iowa State University to use the trailers to dry multiple potential agricultural biomass products including energy grasses, soybeans and corn stover. Integro Earth Fuels has also been provided an Advanced Drying Trailer to be used to remove moisture from woody biomass at its pilot torrefaction plant in Grambling, SC. Rcently the Fort Worth Star Telegram described Hill as "A Natural Entrepreneur" Randy Hill is also a rancher and developer. His real estate holdings include commercial, residential, and ranch holdings across the Southwest, including Brewster, Callahan, Fisher, Llano Hudspeth, Pecos, Jones, Tarrant and Taylor counties in Texas. Over the past four years, he has begun an effort to concentrate his interest in historical ranch preservation. And he has been recognized by the National Republican Congressional Committee as the recipient of their two most prestigious awards, Republican of the Year and The National Leadership Award. Hill has been featured in the Dallas Business Journal, Peanut Patriot, Abilene Reporter News, Southeastern Farm Press, Biomass Magazine, Ethanol Producer Magazine, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Austin American Statesman, Houston Cronicle, Shreveport Times, San Antonio Express and Spokane Business Journal. Randy Hill currently lives outside of Abilene Texas in Callahan County Texas with his wife and three daughters.