Roads & Rodeo

 

If you grew up in northern British Columbia as part of a blue collar family whether in logging, mills,
farming, construction, the pipeline etc. chances are you and your loved ones have driven across a Lobol
Enterprises road or bridge.

Maybe you did not know it at the time.

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Maybe it was just another early morning heading to a cutblock.

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A shortcut to the hayfield. A Sunday drive down the backroads.

But someone kept that stretch graded.

Someone built the bridge.

Someone hauled the gravel.

Someone fixed the washout during spring breakup and plowed clear the snow in the winter.

For more than 45 years, Lobol Enterprises Ltd. has been one of the major players quietly shaping the
ground that keeps the North mobile.

Founded in 1979 by Roy Roe Sr, the company grew the same way many northern families did. One job
at a time. One machine at a time. Long days that turned into long seasons. Seasons that turned into his
life’s work.

The Roe boys did not grow up behind desks.

They grew up in service trucks.

In gravel pits.

On the backs of graders before they were big enough to reach the pedals.

They learned early that working in Northern BC is not about convenience.

It is about responsibility.

Remote industrial corridors and bush roads that rarely make it onto maps have employed their family
and thousands of others for decades.

 

Those same roads have carried logging crews, oilfield workers, rodeo rigs and entire communities trying to make a living where conditions rarely make anything easy.

Lobol was not built in offices.

It was built on the back roads.

Work That Follows The Seasons

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When spring breakup reveals the damage left behind by winter, Lobol crews head into the bush with
graders, gravel trucks and heavy haul equipment to restore access and rebuild infrastructure. Culverts
are reset. Drainage is re-established. Roads that were washed away are brought back to life.

Summer brings long daylight and longer maintenance lists. Road building. Right of way mulching.

Bridge installation. Support for forestry operations, municipalities and energy projects across terrain
that never gives anything for free.

Then winter returns and the responsibility shifts. Sand trucks roll out before the sun rises. Snow
removal becomes critical. Heavy equipment still needs to move across frozen ground and remote access
networks.

Maintaining the resource industry in northern British Columbia is a year long commitment. Lobol is
dedicated to all of it.

Horsepower & Horse Power

Roy Roe Sr. built a life defined by both horsepower and horse power.

 

His days were spent operating heavy machinery and supporting the resource industry, while chuckwagon racing remained something
he did for the love of it. A hobby that kept him connected to the small communities across Western
Canada while he quietly built a business that would go on to support generations.

The Roe boys grew up in that world and today Darcy Roe and his brother Ryan proudly carry on the
path their father and grandfather paved.

At the Northern Rodeo Alliance, we believe rodeo reflects the character of the land it comes from.

Many of our athletes were raised and work in the same industries that shaped families like the Roes.

That is why it feels especially fitting to welcome Lobol Enterprises Ltd. as a major sponsor of the 2026
Northern Rodeo Alliance Finals.

THANK YOU Lobol Enterprises!

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