Excavation & Grading
Building pads, roads, parking lots, driveways. Cut, fill, and compaction to plan — GPS machine-control grading on commercial and residential sites. Pads & site prep →
Pad-ready. Grade-checked. Documented.Sitework · Excavation · Utilities — Heber Springs · Serving All of Arkansas
Fifty years of moving Arkansas dirt.
Cox Earthworks is the Cox family's commercial sitework and excavation outfit — three generations running iron out of Heber Springs since 1972. Licensed. Insured. And when you call, a Cox answers.
AR License #3287-C · USDOT #581938 · 0 BBB complaints since 2006
AR Contractor License#3287-C Commercial · Active
USDOT Carrier#581938 · Clean safety record
BBB File Since 20060 complaints on record
OwnershipFamily-owned · 3 generations
0+ yrsIn the dirt — est. 1972, same family name on the gate
0Generations of Coxes on the job today
0BBB complaints in 20 years on file — zero
0ftGPS finish-grade tolerance — running 3D machine control since 2007
Scope of work
If it's in the ground,
it's our trade.
Seven lines of work, coded the way your spec book reads them. Commercial, residential, and municipal.
Utility Installation
Water, sewer, and storm drainage — trenched or bored, bedded, and built to code. Our state license carries the underground piping, cable, trenching & boring classification. Utilities & drainage →
Licensed class: underground piping & boringForestry & Land Clearing
Clearing, raking, piling, ripping, burning, mulching. Fence line to forty acres — no tract too rough or overgrown. Clearing →
Dozer + mulcher work, burn managementRock Excavation
A 10,000-lb hydraulic hammer on an 80,000-lb excavator — precision breaking through the hard stuff. Foundations, utility runs, and site development in ground that stops other outfits. Rock →
10,000-lb hydrohammer — controlled breakingPonds & Lakes
Recreation, livestock, or drainage — cored, keyed, and compacted with proper grading so it holds water for decades, not seasons. NRCS cost-share ponds welcome — the cost-share guide. Ponds →
Built for long-term performanceHauling & Trucking
Gravel, dirt, brush, and debris on our own trucks — plus heavy equipment hauling up to 135,000 lbs, yours or ours. Active USDOT carrier, clean safety record. Tri-axle loads from $400 — material and hauling included within 30 miles. Hauling & Trucking →
From $400/load — material + hauling within 30 miDemolition & Cleanup
Barns, sheds, slabs, and structures — torn out, sorted, hauled off. Site left clean and ready for what's next. Demolition →
Tear-out through final gradeSomething else in the dirt?
If it takes a dozer, an excavator, or fifty years of ground sense — call and ask. Worst case, we point you to the right outfit.
Ask Larry's crewService codes follow CSI MasterFormat® divisions 02/31/33 — the same sections your project manual uses.
Field reports
Real jobs. Our iron.
No stock photos.
FR-01 · Creek crossing · Cleburne County
Culvert set at the waterline
Steep bank, live water, soft bottom. The Kobelco worked off timber crane mats at the creek while the D65 held winch assist from the top of the cut — the kind of access problem that doesn't make it into a brochure, because most outfits turn the job down.
MachineKobelco excavator
SupportD65 winch assist
AccessTimber mats, live creek
Building pad, final grade
Komatsu D51EXi with factory intelligent machine control cutting finish grade against an occupied commercial building — GPS blade, tight tolerance, no surveyor callbacks.
Clearing a pine tract
Working the dozer through standing pine — clearing, raking, piling, and burning handled as one operation instead of three subcontracts.
Four dozers and a pan
When the pad is measured in acres, the iron lines up to match — four blades cutting, the pan hauling, one plan, one grade, one deadline.
The iron
Run by the people
who own it.
No rental-yard roulette. The machines on your job are the machines in these photos — maintained in our own shop on Fort Cox Road.
Dozers · Cat D4–D8 class
Komatsu D51 · D61 · D65 · D155
Four dozers, 13 to 39 tons — GPS finish work to production clearing and ripping. Intelligent machine control on the EXi units. Rates →
Excavators · 6–33 ton
Cat 306 · Kobelco SK85 · SK210 · SK330
Mini to 33-ton mass excavation — trench, culverts, ponds. The SK330 carries our 10,000-lb hydraulic hammer for rock.
Support fleet
Backhoes, Loader & Skid Steer
Case backhoes, Volvo L30 loader and skid steer — utility repairs, driveways, cleanup, and tight residential sites.
Trucking · USDOT 581938
Truck & Trailer Fleet
Tri-axles and trailers — aggregate loads from $400, plus our own equipment moves statewide.
The family
The road to the shop
has our name on it.
The shop sits at 50 Fort Cox Road, Heber Springs. When your family works the same ground long enough that the county names the road after you, you don't get to do sloppy work — everybody knows where to find you.
Larry Cox started the company in 1972. More than fifty years on, it's still his name on the license — with Connie, Matthew, and Lance Cox running the office, the estimates, and the crews. Three generations, one standard.
We're not the biggest earthmover in Arkansas, and that's the point. The person who prices your job is the person on the dozer. Call the number on this page and a Cox picks up — not a call center, not a sales rep, not a menu.
Hard WorkHow we bid it
PrecisionHow we build it
RespectHow we leave it
The original door decal — same phone, same town
1972
Larry Cox Construction founded
Larry Cox starts moving dirt in Cleburne County under his own name.
2006
Two decades of clean record begins
BBB file opens. Twenty years later it still reads: zero complaints.
2007
GPS before it was standard
First Topcon 3D machine-control system goes to work on the City of Heber Springs softball complex — years before GPS was normal kit in Arkansas. The trade press took notice.
2009
Incorporated
Larry Cox Construction, Inc. — commercial license, growing municipal and commercial work.
Today
Cox Earthworks
GPS machine control on the blade, third generation in the cab, same family answering the phone.
Working range
Shop in Heber Springs.
Range: all of Arkansas.
Crews and trucks roll out of Fort Cox Road to jobs anywhere in the state — pads in the metro, ponds in the Delta, clearing in the Ozarks. If it's Arkansas dirt, we'll come move it.
★ Heber Springs — home baseQuitmanClintonBeebeCabotSearcyConwayAll 75 Arkansas countiesStatewide · licensed & insuredSearcyConwayCabotLittle Rock
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HomeownersPads, driveways, ponds, clearing — priced straight, done once.
CommercialDevelopers & GCs — pads, parking, utilities, rock. Prequal packet below.
MunicipalPublic works with a licensed, insured, clean-record contractor.
For GCs & project managers
The prequal packet,
already on the table.
Most sub qualification packets take a week of emails. Ours is public record — verify every line before you ever pick up the phone.
Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board
License #3287-C
Commercial contractor — classifications: Highway, Railroad & Airport Construction · Underground Piping, Cable, Trenching & Boring. Both classifications are worked, not just held — including airport and heavy-civil sitework. Licensed as Larry Cox Construction, Inc.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin.
USDOT #581938
Active intrastate carrier — company tractors, trailers and drivers with no safety violations or accidents on record.
Better Business Bureau
File since 2006
Twenty years on file, zero complaints. Insured, incorporated (2009), family principals named on every public record.
📰 As featured in Construction Equipment magazine — a senior-editor feature on the Cox family's 3D GPS grading — and For Construction Pros: grading accuracy to the half inch on the City of Heber Springs softball complex, with the GPS system paying for itself in under two years.
GCs & estimators: see our subcontractor page →
Verify independently: ACLB contractor search (license #3287-C) · FMCSA SAFER snapshot — USDOT #581938 · BBB profile · one-page prequal summary (PDF) — certificates of insurance furnished on request.
Straight answers
Questions we get
on every job.
Are you licensed for commercial excavation work in Arkansas?
Yes — Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board License #3287-C (Commercial), with classifications for Highway, Railroad & Airport Construction and Underground Piping, Cable, Trenching & Boring. We work both classifications — including airport and heavy-civil sitework, road and highway work, and licensed underground utilities — not just hold them on paper. We're insured, and certificates of insurance are furnished on request.
How far will you travel for a job?
Anywhere in Arkansas. The shop is in Heber Springs and our trucks haul our own equipment statewide — from the Ozarks to the Delta. For work outside Cleburne County, mobilization gets priced into the job up front, so there are no surprises.
Can you dig through rock without blasting?
Yes. We run a 10,000-pound hydraulic hammer on an 80,000-pound excavator for precision rock breaking — foundations, utility trenches, and site development in ground that stops a regular bucket. It's controlled, it's accurate, and it doesn't need blast permits.
Do you build ponds and lakes?
We've been building them for fifty years — recreation, livestock, and drainage ponds, cored, keyed, and compacted so they hold water for decades. We also repair and reshape existing ponds that were built wrong the first time.
How long have you been running GPS machine control?
Since 2007 — our first Topcon 3D system went on the City of Heber Springs softball complex, years before GPS was standard kit in Arkansas. Construction Equipment magazine sent a senior editor to cover it, and For Construction Pros reported our grading accuracy at a half inch. Today the fleet runs Komatsu intelligent machine-control dozers holding finish grade to a tenth.
What does a load of gravel or dirt cost delivered?
Tri-axle loads start at $400 — material and hauling included, within 30 miles of Heber Springs. Farther out, mileage moves the number; bigger orders bring the per-load price down. Hourly trucking runs $130/hr per tri-axle, 8-hour minimum. Call 501-250-4490 with where you are and what you need, and we'll quote it straight.
Do you install septic systems?
No — septic design and installation is its own licensed trade, and we leave it to the septic outfits. Everything else in the ground is ours: pads, ponds, clearing, driveways, water/sewer/storm utility lines, rock, and hauling. If your project has a septic piece, we'll work alongside your installer.
How do I get a price?
Call 501-250-4490 and talk it through with a Cox, or text a photo of the site. For most jobs the next step is a site walk — we look at the ground before we put a number on it, so the number holds.
Get us on site
Talk to a Cox
about your ground.
Call the shop — a Cox answers
501.250.4490
Email[email protected]
Shop50 Fort Cox Rd, Heber Springs, AR 72543
HoursMon–Fri 8:00–4:30 · Weekends: on the lake
Best for estimatesCall or text a plat / site photo — we'll talk it through before we ever bill a minute
Book a site walk
Step 1 of 3 — what's the ground telling you to build?
Where & when
Step 2 of 3 — so the right machine shows up.
Timeline
Who do we call back?
Step 3 of 3 — we'll call you back to set up the site walk.