R L Burks Hauling LLC

R L Burks Hauling LLC, a small business sole proprietorship based in Abilene, Texas, provides cotton sample hauling and specialized agricultural freight transportation to the Department of Agriculture's Cotton and Tobacco Program as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates exclusively for a single federal customer and holds a $7.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program running through June 30, 2029, under which it issues task orders for cotton sample transportation across Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

R L Burks Hauling's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized: the company transports cotton samples from gins and warehouses to USDA classing offices for quality assessment and grading, operating on fixed-mileage or firm fixed-price structures with service requirements extending seven days a week during peak seasons. Recent representative work includes a $148.7 million delivery order (awarded August 3, 2026, under the parent IDC) for Abilene classing office routes through June 30, 2027; a $106.9 million order (July 1, 2026) for Corpus Christi County sample hauling; and a $59.9 million order (August 25, 2026) for Memphis classing office transportation. Older definitive contracts—a $2.1 million Abilene bundled-route contract terminated for government convenience January 29, 2025, and a $1.4 million Corpus Christi Route 4 contract similarly terminated January 29, 2025—reflect earlier fixed-term work under the same customer before migration to the IDC vehicle structure.

Customer concentration is complete: all 20 recent awards fund USDA Cotton and Tobacco Program operations, representing $12.5 million in combined potential value. The top parent vehicle is the IDC 12639524D0034, under which 17 task orders carry $1.4 million combined potential value. Activity has accelerated—two awards in 2022, then five in 2024, four in 2025, and nine in 2026—though obligated dollars ($1.7 million) represent only 14% of potential ceiling value across the portfolio. Nine awards (combined potential value $562 thousand) reach completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor operates entirely under NAICS 484220 (Specialized Freight except Used Goods Trucking, Local) and PSC code ZZ07 (Transportation / Motor Freight), with no subcontract footprint and no participation in government-wide vehicles, schedules, or multi-agency IDIQs.