Let-Er-Buck Trucking, Inc.

Let-Er-Buck Trucking, Inc. (doing business as Let Er Buck Trucking Inc.) is a HUBZone-certified small business headquartered in Red Bluff, California, that provides trucking, transportation, and heavy equipment rental services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders.

Let-Er-Buck Trucking operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the vendor carries no subcontract footprint. The company is a for-profit corporate entity with SBA HUBZone certification (expired March 13, 2024, though awards continue post-expiration). All 152 federal awards are prime contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles under NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC R499 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression).

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for substantially all awards: the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) holds 83 awards valued at $6 million; the National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) holds 19 awards valued at $6 million; the Federal Fire and Aviation Management program holds 28 awards valued at $1.5 million; and the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) holds 15 awards valued at $1.5 million. These four lines cover 98% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value. The remaining 7 awards scatter across other Forest Service offices. No non-USDA agencies appear in the award record.

Let-Er-Buck Trucking holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts through the USDA Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, each with $250,000 to $1,000,000 ceilings, running through 2025–2030. Representative vehicles include IDC 12569R23T7748 (19 task orders, $1.8 million), BPA AG9J61B167298 (17 task orders, $420 thousand), IDC AG9J61B177132 (13 task orders, $629 thousand), IDC 1202SB21T7840 (11 task orders, $1.1 million), and IDC 129J6124T7196 (10 task orders, $858 thousand). All vehicles are total small business set-asides; most task orders are firm fixed price. Work centers on miscellaneous heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, road graders, masticators), water handling equipment (Type 3 and 6 engines, water tenders), and trucking/logistics support for wildland fire suppression and emergency response across Forest Service Regions 1–6, with place of performance spanning California, Oregon, Arizona, and New Mexico.

The vendor issued a total of $15.4 million in combined potential value across 152 awards since 2006, with $8.2 million (54%) obligated to date. Recent activity is steady: 16 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 18 in 2025, and 13 in 2026 (through September). Representative delivery-order work includes a $222,388 trucking order (July 2025, Region 5, Eureka, California), a $185,300 transportation order (September 2025, Region 5), a $174,040 heavy equipment rental order (August 2025, Region 5, Solvang, California), and a $163,021 transportation order (May 2024, Region 5). Older awards span 2022–2023, ranging from $6,450 to $176,829 per order. Task orders issued against VIPR vehicles carry ultimate completion dates typically 2–8 weeks after award, consistent with rapid-mobilization fire-suppression contracting.

Road building, grading, excavating, trucking, and equipment rental.