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Based out of Tillamook, Ore. Geoff Hoffert started Precision Timber a decade ago and since he
began logging for Georgia-Pacific has been running his own company trucks. Currently Precision
Timber runs two trucks including a 1999 Kenworth
T-800 and a 2003 Kenworth W-900L with a Lincoln stick trailer that allows Hoffert to haul both superloads and short logs. Precision Timber operates primarly out of the Suislaw National Forest
and hauls to Georgia-Pacific Mills in Toledo, Philomath and Coos Bay, Ore.
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Tillamook is a town of roughly 5,000 people in Tillamook County,
Oregon on the southeast end of Tillamook Bay on the Pacific Ocean.
Tillamook is home to a economy based on dairy farms. The farmland
around the city is used largely for grazing by milk cows. Approximately
one million people visit the cheese factory every year. The timber
industry in Tillamook has experienced a comeback from replanting in
the area after the famous Tillamook Burn forest fires between 1933-51
that burnt a total area of 355,000 aces. Tillamook has a mild and wet
climate thanks to the proximity near the Pacific Oregon and lends well
to the farming and timber industries.
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Precision Timber - Tillamook, Ore.
by brandon Hansen
W
hen geoff Hoffert struck out on his
own in the logging industry over a
decade ago, he swore he wouldn’t
own a logging truck.
Hoffert had started the company by refinancing his pickup to buy his first shovel af-
ter a few years of being a cutter. The Tillamook native “bit the bullet” and bought a state
timber sale. With his wife abby doing all the
important bookwork for the company, the
Hofferts started out small and simple but
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PRECISION TIMBER’S 2003 Kenworth K-900L has a Lincoln trailer that allows it to
carry short logs or convert to a supertrain. Owner Geoff Hoffert turned to Lincoln
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“We kind of just grew
through hard work. It wasn’t
like we had any big startup
money to begin with. I just
stuck my neck out and went
to work, put in some long
days and tried to make it go.”
PRECISION TIMBER owner Geoff Hoffert began his
operation a decade ago by refinancing his pickup
truck to buy his first shovel. Working for GeorgiaPacific, Hoffert’s operation hauls to Toledo, Philomath and Coos Bay, Ore.
GEOFF HOFFERT
Precision
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has since grown to roughly ten employees
and several pieces of equipment.
“We kind of just grew through hard work,”
Hoffert said. “it wasn’t like we had any big
startup money to begin with. i just stuck my
neck out and went to work, put in some long
days and tried to make it go.”
After his young company, Precision Timber, began logging for Georgia-Pacific and
stayed busy with state timber sales outside of
Hoffert’s hometown of Tillamook, Ore., Geoff
soon decided it was time to get a company
truck.
“With your own truck you know how many
loads you’re going to get out,” Hoffert said.
“Otherwise you’re always calling around,
waiting for someone to show up and you just
don’t know what you’re going to get out in a
day.”
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CLEANED AND READY, Precision Timber’s 2003 Kenworth W-900L is one of
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“With your own truck you know how many loads you’re going to get out,”
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Precision
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almost 5,000 people best known
for its dairies, cheese factory
and as one of the gateways to
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near the Siuslaw National Forest where Precision Timber does
a lot of their work, and the area
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rainfall since it’s just inland
from the Pacific Ocean.
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roughly 630,000 acres between
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terrain can vary from the
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more inland areas meaning fire
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of the forest can slow down log-
GEOFF HOFFERT
ging on the wetter western side
since the restrictions are forestwide. dealing with the rain can
also be a problem if the forest
gets more than an inch of rain in
a 24-hour period then hauling is
forced to stop.
georgia-Pacific, who Hoffert
primarily logs for, was founded
in 1927 in georgia, and was the
United states’ largest producer
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the western United states in
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GETTING A TRANSFER LOAD, Precision Timber’s 1999
Kenworth T-800 is the second truck in Hoffert’s fleet.
Driver Dennis Lowe got this transfer load back to Tillamook, Ore. at Georgia-Pacific’s mill in Philomath.
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PRECISION TIMBER’S
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said. “That’s kind of the last thing laying
around in a job and then it’s tough to find a
truck to come up and haul it. Your equipment also has to wait around to load it before you can move to a new site. With this
trailer we’re able to get rid of that by sending it to Toledo for pulp.”
Late this summer, Hoffert turned to Lincoln industrial — a 68-year old company
based out of Port angeles, Wash. — which
specializes in manufacturing and installing
their own log truck and trailer equipment.
Just outside of seattle, Lincoln has a complete welding and machine shop along with
repair facilities with certified welders, a 70ton press break, plasma cutters, crane service, sand blast and paint facilities.
What Lincoln provided was a unique
stick trailer that can haul short logs or a super train. Hoffert’s 2003 Kenworth W-900L
was worked on and specially modified to
haul the stick trailer.
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the truck frame so Geoff can either use the
short log trailer as a pup trailer or when
he’s hauling a long log load he picks up the
front axle and sticks it on the hop-on unit,”
Lincoln sales manager Wayne Kinberg said.
The supertrain set up can haul as much
as 105,500 pounds with the eight-axle trailer, the total net weight is around 35 tons.
All the fabrication and truck work was
done at Lincoln dealer A-1 Truck Repair in
Woodland, Wash.
“We were surprised with how light the
trailers were themselves,” Hoffert said. “Lincoln did a good, clean job. When you end up
with a lot of shorter type of stuff like we do,
this works quite well.”
While Precision Timber is based out of
Tillamook, Hoffert and driver Dennis Lowe
“I’ve been working
with the Forest
Service for quite
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they’ve been great
to work with. The
biggest thing with
restrictions is
sometimes you just
got to go day-by-day
but you also have to
plan ahead and
know where you’re
going next.”
GEOFF HOFFERT
maximize their efficiency by planning out
hauls to a mill in Tillamook, the pulp mill 75
miles away in Toledo, the saw mill 100 miles
away in Philomath and the other saw mill in
Coos Bay, which is over 170 miles from
Tillamook. The larger hauls with the new
Lincoln trailer helps keep the logs flowing
for Hoffert.
Georgia-Pacific contracts Precision Tim-
ber for transfer loads back to Tillamook so
the truck can continue to make money at the
end of the day despite it being a long drive.
Precision Timber driver Dennis Lowe has
been log trucking for two years after 16
years of commercial long-haul trucking.
“It’s just more fun to be outside,” Lowe
said. “You’re in the woods and you end up
spending half of your day in the woods.”
Lowe moved from California after hauling through several states in the Pacific
Northwest. After a haul through Oregon, he
decided to move up from the Central Valley
with his family.
Precision Timber’s work around Tillamook earned them a Merit Award in 2009 by
the Northwest Oregon Regional Forest Practices Advisory Committee for their work on
an Oregon Department of Forestry state
timber sale.
“Some of these timber sales have been
pretty challenging and you really have to
figure out how these things are done and
twist your brain around them,” Hoffert said.
“I’ve been working with the Forest Service
for quite a while and they’ve been great to
work with. The biggest things with restrictions is sometimes you just got to go day-byday but you also have to plan ahead and
know where you’re going next.”
Hoffert is thinking about getting another
truck next year with the same Lincoln trailer configuration after seeing how his current
truck does this year.
If their log trucks continue to be profitable, Precision Timber will be able to put
even more logs on the road — hauling them
along the Oregon coast in some of the most
efficient ways. Not bad for someone who
didn’t want to own log trucks in the first
place.
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