Lien Transportation

Lien Transportation is a trucking and construction company in Aberdeen, SD, that has been working in the local surface construction industry since 1916. The company serves commercial clients such as airports, shopping centers, government entities, small businesses, and golf courses, and also takes on smaller private projects including driveways and pathways. Its service lines cover construction, asphalt paving, demolition and recycling, snow removal, and construction materials, with crews operating out of Aberdeen and Rapid City and additional paving work reaching Mobridge, Redfield, and Groton in South Dakota, and Ellendale in North Dakota.

Lien Transportation is a 100% employee-owned ESOP company, a status it adopted in 2025. The construction division handles site work, grading, excavating, back fill, dewatering, dike and dam work, engineered fill, removals, geotech fabric placement, road building, and hauling. The asphalt paving side focuses on roads, highways, pathways, and driveways, with the company noting the durability, economy, and recyclability of the material it works with. Demolition and recycling covers buildings ranging from restaurants and hospitals to houses and shopping centers, and the business recycles approximately 100,000 tons of concrete, building rubble, and asphalt each year. Snow removal services extend to parking lots, driveways, highways, streets, subdivisions, schools, apartment complexes, commercial lots, and residential homes. The company is licensed and bonded, runs a drug- and alcohol-free workplace, and insures the work it performs.

The office sits along US-12, with East Melgaard Road about half a mile away and 6th Avenue Southeast within roughly three-quarters of a mile. Sunshine Park and Aberdeen Central High School are both nearby, about six-tenths of a mile from the location, and the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation office lies at a similar distance. Super City Plaza is also within the same short radius.

With more than a century of continuous operation in Aberdeen, Lien Transportation remains a long-established presence in the region's paving and construction trades.