Robbie Ballard
Partner
About Robbie
Robbie Ballard is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and business leader with nearly three decades of experience across the transportation, energy, logistics, equipment, and industrial service industries. Known for his hands-on leadership style and deep operational expertise, Robbie has built his career leading organizations through periods of growth while developing practical solutions for customers working in demanding environments.
For nearly twenty years, Robbie has partnered with Tim Buffington to build and grow businesses spanning oilfield services, transportation, trailer leasing, truck upfitting, and real estate development. Their long-standing partnership is grounded in a shared commitment to operational excellence, strong customer relationships, and building businesses that create lasting value.
Today, Robbie and Tim co-own Paramount Truck Solutions, providing commercial truck equipment and vehicle upfitting solutions for construction, ranching, energy, municipal, and commercial fleet customers throughout Texas. Drawing on decades of experience working alongside operators and fleet customers, Robbie brings a practical understanding of how trucks are used in the field and what customers need from their equipment, functionality, durability, reliability, and solutions built for the job.
Robbie also serves as President and co-owner of Paramount Trailer Leasing, a growing commercial trailer leasing company serving transportation, construction, energy, and industrial customers across the region.
Prior to Paramount, Robbie served as President and later Chief Executive Officer of 1845 Oilfield Services, which grew into one of the largest sand logistics companies in North America. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Operating Officer of D&T Trucking and spent more than fourteen years as President of Triple R Mechanical, developing extensive experience in transportation, fleet operations, industrial services, safety, and organizational leadership.
A lifelong Parker County resident, Robbie has deep roots in the community he calls home and places a high value on being an active and engaged member of it. For Robbie, building a successful business goes hand in hand with building lasting relationships, supporting the local community, and creating opportunities for the people and businesses around him.
That same philosophy guides his leadership at Paramount Truck Solutions: understand the customer’s operation, provide dependable equipment and service, stand behind the work, and build relationships for the long term
Tim Buffington
Partner
About Tim
Tim Buffington is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with more than two decades of experience building and scaling companies across the energy, transportation, real estate, and technology sectors. Rooted in the Fort Worth and Parker County community, Tim is known not only for his business acumen but for his commitment to long-term partnerships, local investment, and creating opportunities in the industries he operates in. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and is actively engaged as an owner and operator of diversified business interests spanning transportation, oilfield services, truck upfitting, trailer leasing, real estate development, and programmatic talent acquisition.
Much of Tim’s success is rooted in an enduring business partnership with Robbie Ballard that spans nearly twenty years. Together, Tim and Robbie have built and operated companies across multiple industries, including sand logistics, trucking, trailer leasing, and real estate development demonstrating a consistent ability to identify opportunity, scale operations, and create lasting enterprise value. Their partnership reflects a shared philosophy of hands-on leadership, operational excellence, and deep investment in the communities where they do business.
Tim and Robbie are perhaps best known as the co-founders of 1845 Oilfield Services, which Tim established in 2007 and grew into one of the largest sand logistics companies in North America. At its peak, the company operated more than 800 trucks across every major oil basin in the United States before being successfully sold to private equity in 2015. Building on that foundation, the two partners have continued to grow their transportation and infrastructure footprint, including co-ownership of Paramount Truck Solutions, a commercial truck upfitting business, and Paramount Trailer Leasing, serving clients across the region.
Prior to founding 1845 Oilfield Services, Tim established a real estate development company with completed residential and industrial projects in Nevada and Texas a venture he and Robbie have continued to pursue together through a number of joint real estate partnerships over the years. His early career included the practice of law, giving him a strong foundation in business transactions, contract negotiation, and regulatory matters that has informed his approach to entrepreneurship and investment throughout his career.
Tim holds a Juris Doctor from Willamette University College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business from California State University, Fresno.
Tanner Hamlin
Service Manager
About Tanner
Tanner Hamlin leads service operations at Paramount Truck Solutions, overseeing shop performance, technician development, and quality control across the organization.
As a former business owner in the welding and fabrication industry, Tanner brings an entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on technical expertise to every aspect of the operation. His background managing crews, delivering complex projects, and maintaining high workmanship standards has helped establish a culture focused on accountability, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Tanner is passionate about developing people, improving processes, and ensuring every truck and trailer leaves the shop built to Paramount's standards of quality and reliability.