by - July 16, 2018 10:05 am
A 22% operating income gain in J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ intermodal division helped the Lowell-based company beat second quarter earnings and revenue expectations. The company reported Monday morning (July 16)…
by - July 11, 2018 2:44 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services is expected to report second-quarter earnings will rise 45.5% to $1.28 per share, from the same period in 2017, according to a consensus of…
by - April 23, 2018 3:51 pm
The truckload industry looks to have experienced one of the strongest first quarters in a period that is typically weak while a driver shortage continues to show no signs of…
by - March 6, 2018 2:59 pm
At a recent Barclays equity conference, John Roberts, president and CEO of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, and David Mee, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, noted that…
by - March 5, 2018 4:24 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services is working to expand its technology talent pool. The Lowell-based carrier recently broke ground on a 132,883-square-foot Training and Technology Center, a stand-alone building about a…
by - February 5, 2018 3:03 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, along with Grandslam Performance Associates and Global HR Partner Group, hosted a program for those displaced from technology jobs to bridge the gap between the job…
by - January 30, 2018 3:01 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services delayed the release of its 2018 guidance by almost three months to complete the year and “dig a little deeper,” but guidance the Lowell-based carrier released…
by - January 3, 2018 4:14 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services should see intermodal demand rise as import container volumes increase on the West Coast and its rail partner’s volumes surge in the West. In a fourth-quarter…
by - December 7, 2017 4:30 pm
A J.B. Hunt executive said in a congressional roundtable hosted by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that autonomous vehicle legislation under consideration by Congress should address commercial and passenger…
by - November 8, 2017 7:32 pm
By this time last year, J.B. Hunt Transport Services had released its financial expectations for the upcoming year, but John Roberts, president and CEO of the Lowell-based carrier, said the…
by - November 2, 2017 6:34 pm
J.B. Hunt executive Shelley Simpson earned $7.25 an hour when she started at the Lowell-based carrier after graduating from the University of Arkansas with a marketing degree in 1994. She…
by - October 17, 2017 6:07 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services will invest $500 million into technology over five years, and some of the money is being used to invest into a cloud-based system for its data….
by - October 2, 2017 6:16 pm
In the aftermath of the recent hurricanes, the outlook of the trucking industry has improved, but more drivers might leave it for higher paying jobs close to home as they…
by - June 20, 2017 3:29 pm
Augmented reality technology was once only dreamed of in movies, like “Terminator” or “Minority Report,” before expanding into smartphone games, such as Pokémon Go, but it’s now starting to make…
by - May 22, 2017 3:06 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services collaborated with Mid-America Truck Driving School and Northwest Technical Institute to establish a program allowing military veterans to receive commercial driver’s license training from the school….
by - March 9, 2017 6:29 pm
Shareholders of J.B. Hunt Transport Services will vote on how the carrier reports political contributions, and the proposal is the only one the company’s board of directors wants shareholders to…
by - March 6, 2017 10:14 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services will spend millions of dollars to install GPS tracking devices and load sensors in its more than 90,000-unit intermodal and over-the-road trailer fleets. The Lowell-based carrier…
by - February 14, 2017 1:21 pm
From his office in the Willard J. Walker Hall at the University of Arkansas, John Kent, director of the Supply Chain Management Research Center, sees an autonomous robot driving on…
by - January 19, 2017 5:15 pm
Increased revenue, a lower income tax rate and a one-time, paid-time-off benefit accounted for a slight increase in fourth-quarter earnings for J.B. Hunt Transport Services. For fiscal 2016, earnings increased…
by - October 17, 2016 8:09 am
“Tepid customer demand” and the lower freight rates that often accompany such demand pushed third quarter earnings for J.B. Hunt Transport Services below the same period in 2015 and below…
