Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott visits Freeport, Florida’s Clay Blizzard Trucking, LLC. The forecast is clear and bright for Clay Blizzard, 56, who runs Clay Blizzard Trucking, LLC. The company started 13 years ago, though originally as a dump truck business, not a logging outfit. Although Blizzard had grown up in logging with his dad and had run that company since he was a young man, a mill closure forced him out of it in 2000. He started driving a dump truck in 2005 under the new company name, and thanks to the robust housing market of those years, that business was thriving until 2010. The housing market collapse, luckily, coincided with an opportunity for Blizzard to return to his first love—the woods. Clay Blizzard Trucking shifted gears, first to a contract log hauling service before returning in 2011 to full-throttle timber harvesting.

Featured Story: “Positive Outlook”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Clay Blizzard Trucking, LLC
Location: Freeport, Florida
SLT Issue: August 2018

Check out other featured articles in the August 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s August 2018 issue features Freeport, Florida’s Clay Blizzard Trucking, LLC, Olla, Louisiana’s Stott Wood Company, Demopolis, Alabama’s Two Rivers Lumber Company, and Columbus, Mississippi’s Tim O’Bryant, AKA cotontop3, and TDK Logging. Also a special article by Tigercat engineer Jean-Marc Labelle offers insight into turbochargers. Another article by Teresa Hannah with Caribou Software provides a case study of their Loggers Edge software featuring Washington, Georgia’s Plains Logging. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.