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The crew of Stolt Excavating and Trucking includes, from left, Forest Clements, Mark Yohnk, Dan Stolt, Joe Rubenzer and Tony Stoik.
For several years, while he was working for engineering and construction companies in northern Wisconsin, Joe Rubenzer held the idea of self-employment in the back of his mind. He knew he couldn’t afford to buy a company like the ones he worked for, some worth millions of...