Arkansas truck company sending MREs to Georgia for hurricane victims

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Stallion Transportation Group in Beebe is sending food, and some extra hands, down to Georgia to help with the storm's aftermath.

Stallion Transportation Group CEO Butch Rice said he received a call from Governor Sarah Huckabee Sander's office on Wednesday.

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"When you get a driver and say, 'Hey, we need you to go straight into a hurricane relief area', we had a list of them wanting to volunteer to do it," Rice said.

In the trailer were 28 pallets of meals-ready-to-eat or MRE's. One driver picked up the load from Fort Chaffey in Fort Smith and another drove it directly to communities that needed it.

"The national guard was actually handing them to the people there that was going to use them. Or take them into the mountains of Georgia to people who had no road access," Rice said.

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The Arkansas National Guard is working with Stallion Transportation Group and set up operations through the two states' governor's offices. All in a joint effort to offer aid to a community that's hurting.

"So, it was very heart-warming to know that we helped that part," Rice said.