Conrad Yelvington Distributors

Conrad Yelvington Distributors (CYD), A CRH Company, named after its founder, began in the late 1940s as a trucking company hauling clay tiles and sewer pipe. In the late 1970s, however, an opportunity arose to transport slag from Tennessee into Florida by rail to supplement a Florida phosphate slag producers diminishing supply. CYD signed a contract with CSX Railroad to transport the product to a rail siding near its Daytona Beach headquarters. The product was then hauled by truck primarily into central Florida and was the beginning of what is now a multi-state construction material distribution network. With the help of Conrads son Gary, who joined the family business in the late 70s, the first fully operational CYD aggregate transfer facility opened in Orlando in 1983. From 1983 to 1993 facilities opened in Tampa, Jacksonville, DeBary, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and a Daytona Beach rail site opened on the FEC. Since 1993, (11) additional sites have opened statewide bringing the tota...