Bettendorf Trucking was established by Erv Bettendorf in 1961 with one single truck driven by Erv himself hauling planer shavings on a short haul to a particle board plant in Arcata, California. A few years later opportunity came knocking on Erv’s door. In 1965 Georgia-Pacific built Humboldt County's first pulp mill, and the very next year in 1966 Crown-Simpson completed another pulp mill literally next door. By 1967 Erv had added another handful of trucks and from there on the beginnings of ...