by - October 10, 2018 1:46 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services provided an update Wednesday (Oct. 10) in an arbitration between the company and Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF Railway Co. and will pay $18.3 million…
by - October 9, 2018 6:43 pm
The summer of 2018 has not wanted to loosen its grip on the Southeast this year. As Sam Atkinson and I did some prepacking of the tailgate trailer last Friday,…
by - October 8, 2018 2:38 pm
As online retail continues to grow so does the need for better reverse logistics to handle customer returns. A recent report from Cerasis found the costs of reverse logistics exceed…
by - October 8, 2018 11:37 am
Turn on the news, and you will be reminded. These are strange times we are living in. The big story Saturday was a lifetime appointment being granted to a man who…
by - October 4, 2018 6:09 pm
Alabama, which could become a future NFL expansion team, is coming to Fayetteville this week to, ahem, “play” against the Razorbacks. Saturday would certainly have been a good time for…
by - October 3, 2018 5:26 pm
Walmart continues to digitize processes aimed at improving customer shopping experiences and better equipping its workforce. Tom Ward, vice president of digital operations at Walmart U.S., said some of that…
by - October 2, 2018 7:57 pm
Big ‘D’ didn’t disappoint last weekend even though the game didn’t go as well as we had hoped. The Hogs did show some fight and just about pulled off the…
by - October 2, 2018 6:37 pm
The 5,302-foot runway at Springdale Municipal Airport has reopened after a $2.2 million project to resurface the runway and install LED lighting. The city of Springdale celebrated the completion of…
by - September 30, 2018 10:12 pm
Traveling to follow this team is not for the faint of heart or stomach. The bandwagon has been clearing for some time now, but even in a good year, back to…
by - September 28, 2018 3:06 pm
Aaron Burkes, president of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, will be the next CEO and executive director for Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) in Highfill. Burkes is expected to start…
by - September 27, 2018 3:15 pm
Transit provider Ozark Regional Transit received a clean opinion in an audit of its financial records for 2017, and officials updated board members on a $2.9 million federal grant that…
by - September 27, 2018 3:08 pm
The Hogs are taking on Texas A&M in Jerry World on Saturday, which is somewhat less traumatic for Hog fans who also are Dallas Cowboy fans because they are already…
by - September 26, 2018 2:13 pm
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Transportation Report is managed by Talk Business & Politics and sponsored by the Arkansas Trucking Association and the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce. Other transportation industry related stories can be…
by - September 25, 2018 5:57 pm
I love it when a good plan comes together. Everything but the outcome of the Auburn game went as planned, and pretty much on time. Those of us on the…
by - September 25, 2018 2:50 pm
Blake Woolsey of Fayetteville was recently appointed chairwoman of the board of directors for the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority after chairman Art Formanek resigned to establish an aviation program…
by - September 23, 2018 9:48 pm
There was little reason to bother traveling to Auburn. The trip is just a little more than 1,300 miles round trip from Fayetteville. Saturday’s forecast called for 90 degrees of grueling Alabama…
by - September 23, 2018 5:15 pm
Chicago-based C.A. Fortune, a national consumer products sales and marketing agency, recently hung out a shingle in Bentonville in the company’s effort to establish a foothold in retail central serving…
by - September 21, 2018 2:31 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) has scheduled a second round of interviews for the top three candidates seeking to fill the CEO and executive director position of the Highfill airport….
by - September 20, 2018 9:46 pm
A sizable contingent of Tusk to Tail folks are heading to Auburn for Saturday’s match between the Hogs and the Tigers. The group is certain the Malzahn-Morris matchup will see…
by - September 18, 2018 8:49 pm
“Jesus Wept” is a direct quote from the bible (John 11:35). The quote was made more famous in Arkansas back in the fall of ’87 by Head Coach Ken Hatfield….
