February 2026

These days large trucking companies that haul almost exclusively for the logging industry are few and far between in the Northeast and Lake States. Owner-operators have
become the norm as overhead costs have skyrocketed, while larger log trucking companies have downsized or branched out into other specialties.
French Trucking, based in northern upstate New York in the town of Fine, has defied those trends. Herb French started in the business right out of high school, first hauling for his father, David.

Following in his father’s footsteps in 1995, he bought his own truck, then another, growing his business with the help of his wife, Karen.