Page 29 - Arkanas Trucking Report Volume 22 Issue 5

By Lacey Thacker
Contributing Writer

AT ONLY 34 YEARS OLD, Josh Thompson, president of
Lew Thompson & Son Trucking, is already a twenty-

year veteran of the trucking industry. After a youth
spent assisting his father at work, a need for office help
temporarily—he thought—derailed his plans for college.

But, the work suited him, and somehow he never quite
left. Today, Lew Thompson & Son Trucking is experiencing
extraordinary growth due to their solid record of

professionalism and their ability to adapt quickly in a
market where flexibility is the name of the game.
Lew Thompson & Son has five terminals; four are located in Arkansas and
one in Carthage, Mo. It’s at the location in Huntsville, Ark. that Thompson spends
most of his days. The exterior of the less than ten-year-old brick office is well-
maintained, and the trucks lined up in a tidy row are freshly washed.
Josh Thompson is a tall, unassuming fellow with laugh lines around his eyes.
Despite his laid-back attitude, it’s clear once he begins speaking that he is the
embodiment of hard work and professionalism. He starts his story at a logical
place—the beginning: “I had a plan to get my bachelor’s degree in business. But
when I was 18, Dad needed some help in the office. He wanted to know if I would
come help him for a little while. My plan was to work in the office for six months
or a year until we found someone else to help. Once I got in there, I just never left.
I enjoyed it. It was a fit.” It was a fit, but one Thompson had been growing into his
entire life.
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