Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott visits Star City, Arkansas’ Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC. Partners Delton Hoover, 33, and Kelly Smith, 31, have spent the last eight years running their company, dubbed Southern Style Logging, LLC, with their trucks hauling under the separate banner Bayou Country Trucking, LLC. Asked where they came up with the name, they admit with a laugh that neither exactly knows. They knew they didn’t want to just name it for their initials—“D&K” or “H&S”—as many loggers do. The best answer is this: before he got into logging, Kelly had spent some time doing volunteer work on the West Coast. Thinking about the experience later, he noted that the style of logging out there is quite different from what they were doing in southeast Arkansas.

Featured Story: “Their Own Way”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC
Location: Star City, Arkansas
SLT Issue: September 2018

Check out other featured articles in the September 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s September 2018 issue features Philadelphia, Mississippi’s Todd Gray Logging, Star City, Arkansas’ Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC, Coushatta, Louisiana’s Almond Brothers Lumber Company, and Brodnax, Virginia’s RS Bottoms Logging. A special section highlights the latest in Chippers & Grinders. An article previews the upcoming 2018 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, to be held September 21-22 in Starkville, Mississippi. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.