The Arkansas Transportation Report provides a monthly compilation of data and news regarding the trucking, railroad, airline, and river barge industries. Individually, these different components of transportation and cargo offer unique insight into the current state of the economy. Combined, the totality of the information paints a much broader picture of the health of the transportation sector.
by - April 30, 2018 2:16 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 - April 23, 2018 7:31 am
Fayetteville-based logistics and supply chain management company CaseStack has announced a partnership with Greenville, N.C.-based ShipChain to test the use of blockchain technology beginning this summer. CaseStack will use blockchain…
by - April 20, 2018 3:41 pm
Business leaders from North Carolina and Indianapolis explained why their regions have supported transit with sales and income taxes, and how one region overcame perceptions that public transit is only…
by - April 20, 2018 10:30 am
Major Jay Thompson of the Arkansas Highway Police (AHP) has been promoted to chief of the state agency, a division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT). On Friday (April…
by - April 19, 2018 3:30 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services has seen demand unlike ever before in this upcycle and expects double-digit revenue growth in 2018, and operating income to rise at a faster rate than…
by - April 18, 2018 11:51 am
Supply chain experts and executives provided insight on industry trends and what will disrupt the sector over the next two decades in an annual conference at the University of Arkansas….
by - April 16, 2018 7:20 pm
The first independent analysis of the proposed five-year labor contract between Fort Smith-based ABF Freight and the Teamsters suggests the union negotiators won the day. An April 13 investor note…
by - April 12, 2018 10:33 am
Carriers at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) and the airport board have reached an impasse after executives of two airlines explained their concerns with the airport’s existing rate structure, and…
by - April 6, 2018 11:29 am
Springfield, Mo.-based Aerobotics LLC will host an entry-level class for those interested in flying drones from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 21 at Northwest Technical Institute in Springdale. Rick…
by - April 5, 2018 8:21 pm
Ozark Regional Transit (ORT) will receive a $3.6 million federal grant to replace the majority, if not all, of the remaining buses that have yet to be replaced after a…
by - April 4, 2018 7:31 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) officials want to take a new approach to the airport access road that has been studied for more than 12 years to improve access to…
by - April 4, 2018 7:20 pm
Northwest Arkansas cities and two transit providers will soon have access to a cloud-based software that has over the past year provided route planning information to Springdale-based transit provider Ozark…
by - April 3, 2018 9:35 am
The Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has received an additional $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation for a wide range…
by - March 29, 2018 3:11 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 - March 29, 2018 11:28 am
With nearly one in 10 jobs in Arkansas effected by trucking, the state’s trade association industry leader sees the transportation sector pointed toward a bright horizon. Shannon Newton, president of…
by - March 27, 2018 3:43 pm
The median salary for a truckload driver working a national, irregular route rose 15% to $53,000 in 2017, from 2013, as rising freight demand has increased competition for drivers, according…
by - March 22, 2018 3:50 pm
The number of passengers carried by foreign and domestic airlines operating in the United States rose 3.4% to 965 million passengers for domestic and international flights in 2017, from 933.1…
by - March 14, 2018 10:25 am
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has approved another 90-day waiver to the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate for agriculture-related transportation. The FMCSA, an agency of the U.S. Department of…
by - March 12, 2018 3:30 pm
Over the next two years, the board for the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council will be led by trucking industry executives of Arkansas. The council recently announced the…
by - March 5, 2018 11:36 am
Jeff Harris, vice president of maintenance at Van Buren-based carrier USA Truck, has been elected the 2018-2019 general chairman and treasurer of the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council….
