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“If I am going to be spending time Butch went to two years of college, couple of days before our tour.
away from my family, I want to be and still exhibits some regret about “not Though the previous office
learning something. I don’t want to go finishing what I’d started,” even though had much acreage surrounding the
on some fancy trip. I hope that’s the he has built a successful enterprise. 4,800-square-foot office space, and
direction our membership goes. I think Rice started his company with Stallion had plans to build a larger
we can do that. We have a good group Jeff Holt, an accountant, in 1992 and facility on the land, the city of Beebe
on the Board. I think we have a board they’ve been together since. would not extend its sewer line; the
that sees that.” “This desk would not have fit in house/office was 600 yards from the
the last space we had,” said Holt, sitting city sewer, and city officials indicated
Moving up behind a massive collection of wood it would possibly be 10 years before
Interestingly, for a guy running rectangles in his CFO office. Stallion’s office could be connected.
a trucking company since 1992, Rice Rice proudly shows off what are “So I told them at a city council
never drove a truck. His teenage work relatively new digs, even though they meeting that we were moving out of
in trucking companies tended to be moved into what had been an empty town, moving back to Jacksonville or
cleaning up after folks. His father shell of a building more than three North Little Rock,” Rice said. “Three
worked as a terminal manager for an years ago. On one side is the brokerage days later, [Beebe businessman] Kelton
oil tank company out on Interstate 40 (or the logistics) side; dispatch takes Keathley called me. ‘Hey, I hear you’re
east of North Little Rock for 38 years, up the other. There are three confer- talking about moving.’ He mentioned this
and Butch eventually accompanied his ence rooms. The drivers have their own building. There was nothing in it. It was
dad to the office, where he spent time workout room with weight machines just a plain, ugly shell he had put here, no
around drivers and haulers. He remem- and treadmill. In back is a large shop; plumbing or electricity. Just wide open.”
bers vividly the truckers’ strike in the the previous space did not have one. Butch and his wife Robin, son
1970s and later the gasoline strike when Employees enjoy a couple of large Garland IV and a local builder started
gas haulers quit hauling for several meeting areas that can be used for par- laying out what would become Stallion’s
days, simply camping out at the oil farm ties, weddings and the like. A 1-year- new office home.
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