In an effort to lure more employees into truck driver roles throughout its transportation system, Walmart is hoping its latest offer is one people can’t refuse. Last year, the Bentonville-based retailer announced it was creating its own truck driver’s school…
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ABF Freight Wins American Trucking Association Excellence Award
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArcBest’s less-than-truckload carrier, ABF Freight, has won the 2021 Excellence in Cargo Claims and Loss Prevention Award – LTL Division from American Trucking Associations. ABF is the first nine-time winner of the award which is presented annually to one motor…
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Arkansas Leaders Back Bill to Ease Shipping Backlogs, Boost US Exports
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffU.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) is supporting legislation to reform ocean freight shipping. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act would help level the playing field for American exporters by making it harder for ocean carriers to refuse goods ready to export…
It’s taken a global pandemic to help alter the image of the truck driver from the pot-bellied, amphetamine-guzzling road hog portrayed in movies to the hero who braves the virus to deliver necessary goods to stores. Truckers first took a…
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Trucking Industry Awaiting the New Normal
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterArkansas Trucking Firms Adjust to Pandemic The great pandemic of 2020 has done many things: Strained the capacity of the health-care delivery system; forced a re-evaluation of the means through which higher education is delivered; richly rewarded investment in food-delivery and…
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Shannon Newton Receives National Trucking Association Honor
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArkansas Trucking Association President Shannon Newton recently received the American Trucking Association’s President’s Trucking Association Executives Council Leadership Award during the association’s 85thManagement Conference and Exhibition. Newton is the 17th recipient of the award, which was created in 2002. According to…