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ArcBest, the supply chain logistics provider based in Fort Smith that operates ABF Freight, will acquire MoLo Solutions of Chicago, the company announced Wednesday. With the acquisition, ArcBest will become a top 15 U.S. truckload broker with access to more…

Supply chain logistic company ArcBest® announced Wednesday that it has won the Quest for Quality Award in three separate categories, as selected by readers of Logistics Management.  These awards have been regarded as the gold standard for customer satisfaction and performance excellence in the transportation and logistics industry.       ArcBest…

Chester Charles “Shorty” Jones began his trucking business with a 1954 AutoCar diesel truck, a strong work ethic and family values while he hauled poultry from Arkansas to the West Coast and oranges back home. Now, more than 60 years…

The trucking industry has rarely been so valued as during the pandemic, when grocery stores and other retailers were struggling to keep the shelves stocked with toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizer, meat, appliances and laptop computers. In the past, most…

ATA’s Shannon Newton dishes on industry challenges including worker shortage. The shift to online shopping over the course of the pandemic magnified the role of truckers in the American economy. And as the trucking industry continues to navigate a landscape impacted…

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…

Had Star Wars not landed on planet Earth in 1977 and redefined the movies, the highest-grossing film in the United States that year would’ve been one that included an Arkansas setting. Yep, Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds, the Florida…

Tyson Foods is piloting a new camera monitor system with its truck drivers. The Springdale-based poultry and pork company is incorporating the Stoneridge MirrorEye Camera Monitor System in a select number of trucks. This system, which uses external mounted cameras…

Arkansas 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…

by Tyler Hale Walmart is ramping up trucking division this year with the hiring of hundreds of new truck drivers. The Bentonville retailer plans to hire more than 500 truck drivers, concentrated on the East and West Coasts. According to…