by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
Moody?s Ratings Improve for Arkansas Best
Moody?s Investors Service assigned a Baa3 rating on June 3 to Arkansas Best Corp.?s $225 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility, due in 2005.
by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
Moody?s Investors Service assigned a Baa3 rating on June 3 to Arkansas Best Corp.?s $225 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility, due in 2005.
by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell on May 31 announced the pricing of a public offering of 5.1 million shares of common stock at $26 per share, before underwriting discounts and commissions.
by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
Weeks later, it?s still hard to grasp the tragedy that happened on the Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls, Okla., during the Memorial Day weekend.
by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
Shortly after her husband, Stan, was named head basketball coach at the UA, Ramona Webb Heath was involved in a somewhat heated exchange with security personnel at local airport.
by - June 10, 2002 12:00 am
We thought somebody must have changed the parking meter law while we weren?t looking.
by - May 27, 2002 12:00 am
Company president takes leave while buyers jockey for Springdale railroad.
by - May 27, 2002 12:00 am
A 15-passenger van valued at $34,824 was recently donated to the Harvey & Bernice Jones Center for Families in Springdale from the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.
by - May 27, 2002 12:00 am
Cannon Express Inc. reports a net loss of $2.4 million for its fiscal third quarter, which ended March 31. The loss was 198 percent greater than the loss of $795,777 for the comparable quarter of 2001.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
Arkansas & Missouri Railroad in Springdale builds revenue with title in hand.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
Trucking companies have suffered delays since the terrorist attacks on the United States that only an airline could understand.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
John Hagan, Levina Miller and Buz Phelps saw a logistical niche that wasn?t being filled. So the three former Polar Express employees founded NWA Transport Inc. in Rogers in March 2001.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
Trio piecemeals budget to upgrade Fayetteville public transportation.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
Springdale?s Tyson Foods became the world?s largest protein company with its purchase of IBP Inc. A by-product of the merger has also made Tyson Foods a fair-sized trucking company.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
?Functional? and ?fast? are the hallmarks of Airways Freight Corp.?s freight forwarding services, and the same can be said for its Web site.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
There is no longer commercial air service from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Highfill to either Kansas City or Little Rock, two of the area?s closest cities.
by - May 13, 2002 12:00 am
Robert Weaver’s team at P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. clued in to dedicated contract services before most of its truckload carrier brethren.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Arkansas Best Corp. of Fort Smith on April 19 reported first-quarter income that was $7.6 million less than income from the first quarter of 2001.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
A truck driver for Springdale-based Cannon Express Inc. was arrested April 20 in Dublin, Ga., after an Alabama woman scrawled a message pleading for help on a bathroom wall in Tennessee.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell announced a 206 percent increase in first-quarter net earnings in 2002 as compared to the same period last year.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown on April 16 said first-quarter net income and earnings per share have increased since the same time last year.