Timber Harvesting magazine Senior Associate Editor David Abbott travels to Fordyce, Arkansas to visit Hardy Rhodes Trucking, LLP. Hardy Rhodes, 47, has been running his company, Hardy Rhodes Trucking LLP, headquartered in Fordyce, for 14 years, and he’s been working in the woods full-time for more than 20 years. In fact, he’s been around logging all his life. Like many loggers, Rhodes grew up in a logging family, but unlike a lot of his peers, it wasn’t his first career choice. Far from it; in fact for a long time, it was his last choice. His father was a logger—Hardy Rhodes, Sr.—as were both his uncles. He had no interest in following in the family tradition though. “This was his love; I wanted no part in it,” the junior Hardy Rhodes admits of himself as a younger man. “I told my dad when I was 17 to stop taking me to the woods because I didn’t want to work in the woods,” he recalls with a hardy laugh. “It wasn’t for me.”

Featured Story: “Going Home The Long Way”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Hardy Rhodes Trucking LLP
Location: Fordyce, Arkansas
TH Issue: September/October 2018

Check out other featured articles in the September/October 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine.
The September/October 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2018 TH Logging Business Of The Year: the Williams family and their business, Log Creek Timber, of Johnston, South Carolina. Also featured is Fordyce, Arkansas’ Hardy Rhodes Trucking LLP and a special Global Technology Spotlight section. An article details Western Forest Products recent switch from rail transportation to trucking. The People Power column from Wendy Farrand discusses building a safety culture in your business. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new technology and new machinery and products.