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Asset-based trucking and logistics

Our
trucks.
Your
schedule.

Flatbed, heavy haul, tanker, hazmat, dedicated fleets and logistics across Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, with company drivers, our own shops and 24/7 dispatch.

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Loads a year across J.H. Walker, Superior and Atlas
Safety award Platinum Texas Mutual Safety Partner, for workplace safety
States 3 Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, from our own terminals
Dispatch 24/7 every day of the year, holidays included
Family owned since 1978 and still run by the Walker family

Why shippers choose J.H. Walker

Safety.
Technology.
People.

Anyone can send a truck. Energy companies, engineering firms, manufacturers and distributors keep calling us back for how we run: drivers trained for heavy and specialized freight, loads you can track from your desk, and a family-owned company you can reach day or night.

01 · Safety

The goal is zero.

Zero workplace injuries and zero over-the-road incidents. It’s the goal we set ourselves, and we work toward it with training, our own maintenance shops and technology in the cab. Texas Mutual has named us a Platinum Safety Partner.

PLATINUM 2023
PLATINUM 2024
PLATINUM 2025
PLATINUM 2026

Texas Mutual Platinum Safety Partner, the years we’ve been named.

Our safety program
1 2 3 4 5
  1. 1 InspectionsPre-trip and post-trip inspections, logged in the driver app.
  2. 2 GPS and e-logsTelematics and electronic logging devices on our tractors.
  3. 3 Driver appPush-to-talk with dispatch and paperwork scans.
  4. 4 Securement trainingStrapping, chocking and tarping, from a program built over four decades.
  5. 5 Our own shopsA primarily company-owned fleet, maintained in-house.
portal.jhwalkertrucking.com/tracking LIVE
The client portal’s live tracking, an example load: a J.H. Walker truck on its route from Houston to Port Fourchon, with its speed and ETA

EXAMPLE LOAD · THE CLIENT PORTAL

02 · Technology

See your load. Skip the call.

Our trucks report their position as they run. Stops are time-stamped, and deliveries close with a signed proof of delivery you can pull up yourself, day or night.

  • GPS Live tracking with historySee where the truck is now and the stops it made.
  • ALERT Pickup and delivery emailsEmails as your load is picked up and delivered.
  • POD Electronic proof of deliverySigned on the driver’s tablet, filed to your account.
  • EDI Straight into your systemTenders, status, POD and invoices over EDI.
  • KPI Reports from your loadsOn-time, dwell and volume, on the KPIs you choose.
Open the client portal How it works

03 · People

Our name is on every truck.

Johnny Walker started Superior Delivery Service in 1978 with $10,000 he saved driving for Barnett Services. His mother answered the phones. Today the Walker family runs three companies, and our trucks are driven by our own company drivers, dispatched by our own team and fixed in our own shops.

  • Company driversIn a fleet that’s primarily company owned.
  • Seasoned dispatchersYears on the desk, 24 hours a day.
  • Our own mechanicsIn-house shops that maintain our tractors and trailers.
  • A safety teamThat works with your team on site requirements.
The Walker family in front of a red J.H. Walker tractor
The Walker family, Houston
Superior Delivery Service’s first truck, a 1970s Ford pickup
1978
J.H. Walker dispatchers at their desks
A J.H. Walker driver in a hard hat and vest securing pipe on a red trailer

One family since 1978

Read our story
  1. 1978 Johnny Walker starts Superior Delivery Service with one pickup.
  2. 1981 Two 18-wheelers bought at auction: J.H. Walker Trucking begins.
  3. 1989 Knox Trucklines adds statewide oilfield and steel authority, and Grand Prairie.
  4. 1997 Patterson Trucklines brings Louisiana, liquid and dry bulk.
  5. 2003 Stewart & Stevenson’s transportation division adds heavy haul.
  6. 2023 Texas Mutual names J.H. Walker a Platinum Safety Partner.

Services

If it moves on a deck, we move it.

All services
SVC 01 Flatbed Steel, machinery, building materials and pipe, 24/365, strapped, chained and tarped by our own drivers. SVC 02 Heavy haul Up to 150,000 lbs on single and double drops, extendables and multi-axle trailers. SVC 03 Tanker Dry bulk and liquid bulk: sand, cement and barite by air, mud and fluids by liquid tanker. SVC 04 Hazmat Permitted for 1.1D explosives, plus 1.4, nitrogen, acids and radioactive sources. SVC 05 Specialized RGN, Landoll, driver-only and power-only. U.S. Customs bonded. SVC 06 Dedicated Trucks we own at a daily rate, sized to your work, often with fewer trucks. SVC 07 Logistics Single-source logistics: our trucks, Superior and a vetted carrier network, run through a portal your team can use as its own TMS. Superior Delivery Service SVC 08 Hot shot Small and urgent, from our terminals, through our sister company Superior Delivery Service.

Where we run

Everywhere we run. One dispatch desk.

From the Permian Basin to Port Fourchon. Call the area nearest you, or one number for all of them, 24 hours a day.

TEXAS LOUISIANA OKLAHOMA ARKANSAS MISSISSIPPI NEW MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO PERMIAN BASIN OKLAHOMA DALLAS–FORT WORTH SOUTH TEXAS SOUTH LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE MORGAN CITY HOUMA PORT FOURCHON HOUSTON · HQ
Each area opens its own page.

Fleet

The right deck for the load.

Find your trailer
Tandem flatbed 48 or 53 ft deck · 45,000 lb
Stretch flatbed 48 → 80 ft · 45,000 lb
Step deck 11 ft upper · 37 ft lower · 45,000 lb
Double drop 10 / 29 / 9 ft · 40,000 lb
Removable gooseneck 29 ft well · 9 ft rear · 42,000 lb
Stretch single drop 37 → 65 ft · 38,000 lb
Stretch double drop 59 ft well · 80,000 lb
Liquid tanker Drilling fluids, chemicals
Dry bulk Barite, sand, gel
Tandem van 48 or 53 ft · 45,000 lb
Tandem flatbed 48 or 53 ft deck · 45,000 lb
Stretch flatbed 48 → 80 ft · 45,000 lb
Step deck 11 ft upper · 37 ft lower · 45,000 lb
Double drop 10 / 29 / 9 ft · 40,000 lb
Removable gooseneck 29 ft well · 9 ft rear · 42,000 lb
Stretch single drop 37 → 65 ft · 38,000 lb
Stretch double drop 59 ft well · 80,000 lb
Liquid tanker Drilling fluids, chemicals
Dry bulk Barite, sand, gel
Tandem van 48 or 53 ft · 45,000 lb
A J.H. Walker driver standing with arms crossed beside his red tractor

Now hiring CDL-A drivers

Home most nights. Your own truck.

Our customers are our drivers. That’s why you get an assigned late-model truck, our own shop behind it, and runs planned to get you home most nights.

  • Home most nights
  • Assigned late-model truck
  • Medical, company pays a large share
  • HSA with company match
  • 401(k) and profit sharing
  • Paid vacation
  • Up to two advances a week
  • $100 tarp pay

Got a load? Call the desk.

A dispatcher answers, day or night. Tell us what it is, where it’s going and when, and we’ll tell you which truck.

1-800-581-2600