Bobo’s Express Trucking marks 30 years in business

RANDOLPH — Dwayne Schutt has been trucking for quite a while now.

Thanks to his go-go attitude, Dwayne Schutt DBA BoBo’s Express trucking recently celebrated a nice milestone as a 30-year-old business.

It started out as a livestock trucking company when the business launched in 1990, but within the next decade Schutt started to branch out with refrigerated trailers.

Now the livestock and refrigerated trailers represent a 50-50 split of his business.

“Over those 30 years a lot of things changed, and you had to be versatile to change with it or you weren’t going to be around,” Schutt said. “You need to be able to go more places and visit with more people. A lot of customers retire and are there no longer, so you have to go to different places.

“I get calls from people for help and just for the fact that over the 30 years of hauling and they know we are reliable and do a good job. We work with a lot of the smaller companies around. so we trade loads back and forth.”

Schutt has regular work hauling livestock daily and sometimes will do refrigerated trailers two to three times a week with some of his longer hauls taking him as far west as California.

“We don’t go east anymore with the refrigerated trailers,” he said. “We don’t like the toll roads. The customer we have in California seems to have worked out a lot better.”

Schutt feels very fortunate to be working in the same business – and his own – for this long – citing dedication.

“You miss a lot of family,” Schutt said. “There are things I wish I had gone back and done. But you do what you did so your family survives. I have regrets that I miss some things, but I don’t have regret that I worked hard.

“I have had good employees also that have made this business work also.”

Currently, Schutt has six employees who work for Bobo’s.

Schutt hopes his sons Donald and Robert would maintain the business and eventually buy it from him to keep it going.

“Someday I would like to retire,” he admitted. “With everything going on in the world and the way it is, you want to maintain what you have and take care of it while everyone you are working with survives.”

Schutt admitted some of the work has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with livestock hauling and the produce shipments as well.

He feels fortunate that his reputation has kept him working during this dramatic time in American history.

“I can’t give people the volume right now, but I can give them the service,” Schutt said. “To gain the respect of people is very valuable.”

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