Industry History | J.B. Hunt — Nineteen Thousand Dollars Lost on Rice Hulls in Stuttgart
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Industry History | J.B. Hunt — Nineteen Thousand Dollars Lost on Rice Hulls in Stuttgart
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People treat J.B. Hunt as a Lowell campus that always ran intermodal boxes and a national dry-van book.
The first book was poultry litter made from a waste the mills burned.
Johnnie Bryan Hunt left school after the seventh grade, drove for Superior Forwarding out of Little Rock, and ran a route that passed the Grand Prairie.
Around Stuttgart he watched rice mills burn hulls in the fields because no one had a use for them.
In 1961 he and Johnelle Hunt formed the J.B. Hunt Company there to bag those hulls as chicken bedding.
The first year lost more than $19,000 in 1961 dollars.
Within five years the plant was the world's largest poultry-litter producer.
In 1969 Hunt bought five tractors and seven trailers as a sideline to move the hulls; the trucks outgrew the mill.
Headquarters moved to Lowell in 1972. He sold the hull plant in 1983 and listed the trucking book the same year, then the eightieth-largest U.S. carrier.
The mechanism is still the Stuttgart one.
A mill will give away a byproduct it has to burn, and a driver who already owns the route can turn that waste into a backhaul and then into a fleet.
A visitor on Main Street still walks the rice-town grid where the first plant sat before the Lowell campus took the name.
The trucks outgrew the hulls.
The hulls are where the book started.
Photo: Downtown Stuttgart, Arkansas, StuttgartChamber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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