Service area
Flatbed & Step Deck Trucking in Starks, LA
About 55 miles and 65 minutes — Highway 12 east through Deweyville, crossing the Sabine well north of I-10.
One of our busiest lanes, period
Pull up our dispatch log and Starks shows up more often than towns ten times its size. We have run better than thirty loads in and out of a yard off O’Brien Road — crane mats and timber mats cycling out to jobs across the Gulf Coast and coming back when the work wraps. That is not a lane we are hoping to break into; it is one we already run week in and week out. Highway 12 through Deweyville is a road our drivers could run in their sleep, and the Starks end of it feels like an extension of our own yard.
How mat freight really moves
Mat work is circular. Mats go out clean, spend months under a crane or along a pipeline spread, then come home muddy to be sorted, restacked, and shipped again. A carrier who only wants the outbound half of that cycle is useless to a mat operation. We haul both directions — loading out fresh stacks and bringing back returns — and we keep counts that reconcile, because a mat yard lives and dies by knowing where its inventory sits. Starks is where we have proven that, load after load, in both directions.
Highway 12 instead of the interstate
Starks does not sit on I-10, and that keeps a lot of carriers away. Our route runs Highway 12 east through Deweyville, across the Sabine on the two-lane, and into town in about an hour and five minutes. It is a back-road lane and we like it that way — less traffic, a straight shot from the yard, and no dependence on the interstate bridge when I-10 backs up at the state line. If your freight starts or ends anywhere on the 12 corridor between Deweyville and DeRidder, we are probably already passing your gate.
What that volume means for your job
Because trucks are in and out of Starks constantly, adding a load here rarely means mobilizing anything. A contractor needing mats spotted nearby, a shop needing steel moved, a landowner with equipment to shift — the truck is often already routed through town. That is the practical difference between a carrier with a pin on a map and a carrier with a standing lane: same-day answers, rates built on real backhauls, and a driver who knows which roads off Highway 12 will hold a loaded truck after a week of rain.
Common loads we haul in Starks
What we haul through Starks week after week:
- Crane mats loading out to Gulf Coast jobsites
- Muddy timber mat returns coming back for restacking
- Pipeline right-of-way access mats
- Equipment moves along the Highway 12 corridor
- Oversize timbers and hardwood bundles
- Building materials for rural Calcasieu Parish sites
Straight answers
Starks freight questions
+Do you really run Starks that often?
Yes. Thirty-plus loads and counting in and out of a mat yard off O’Brien Road make Starks one of the highest-volume lanes on our board. A truck through Starks is the rule for us, not the exception.
+Can you handle mat returns as well as deliveries?
Both directions, every cycle. Fresh mats out to the job, dirty mats back for restacking, and a load count that matches the yard’s inventory at the end. Hauling only the easy half of mat freight is not how we work.
+My site is off a gravel road — is that a problem?
Usually not. Our drivers run rural Calcasieu Parish roads all the time. Tell dispatch what the approach looks like — surface, turnaround room, recent rain — and we will tell you straight whether a loaded truck can get in and back out.
+What do you haul out here besides mats?
Anything that rides a flatbed or step deck: steel, lumber, equipment, oversize timbers. Mats built the lane, but the trucks running it will carry whatever your job needs moved.