MSPBJ 35th Anniversary Q&A: Richard Copeland, from a spray-painted ‘Thor’ truck to a major construction company


“Back in 1980, I got my first loan to buy a vehicle and I thought I had died and gone to heaven,” he recalled in an interview. “I got a 21 percent loan to buy a work truck. I was as happy as could be.”

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