Tag: Transportation

Year?s Top 10 Northwest Arkansas Stories

Major local stories for 2001 include business mergers, fraud and success.

Truck Firm ?Earns It? Old-Fashioned Way

An agent of 4-Way Transportation Inc. of Springdale, JLC Trucking Inc. of Rogers still does much of its logistics work the old-fashioned way ? by hand.

What Driver Shortage?

J.B. Hunt, USA Truck scale back pay.

ABF Freight System Repeat Web Winner

ABF Freight System Inc. of Fort Smith, the largest subsidiary of Arkansas Best Corp., has been honored for the second-straight year as one of the Web Business 50 Award winners.

Wealthiest Arkansans: Stephenses Hang on Behind Waltons Despite Tough Year

The Stephens family of Little Rock has lost almost a third of its stock holding wealth since mid-2000, but it manages to hang on in Arkansas Business? 2001 listing of Arkansans? stock holdings.

Edgewater Hopes Software Grabs Truckers

Edgewater Technology Inc., a Massachusetts firm with a substantial presence in Arkansas, launched a logistics software package recently at the premier trucking industry conference.

Drivers Select Fills Empty Seats

Drivers Select leases class A, commercial-driver?s-licensed and U.S. Department of Transportation-qualified drivers to trucking companies in Northwest Arkansas.

Cannon Express Reports Diminished 1Q Figures

Cannon Express Inc. of Springdale said on Nov. 14 that first-quarter revenues were down about $890,000 from the same time last year as a driver shortage and less demand for services weakened the trucking company.

U.S. Airways Cancels Last Flight to Little Rock

U.S. Airways Express announced it will cut its round-trip flight from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to Little Rock.

Agroterror Threat Changes the Rules

One bioterrorist act could cause grave damage to agribusinesses and, in the worst case scenario, the national economy and even global financial markets.

Tighter Security Measures Taken

There are numerous steps industries can take to better protect themselves from biological attacks.

Arkansas Best 3Q Suffers

Arkansas Best Corp. of Fort Smith on Oct. 18 announced its third quarter 2001 net income of $13 million, or 52 cents per diluted common share, compared with last year?s net income of $23.3 million, or 97 cents per diluted common share.

J.B. Hunt 3Q Down 50 Percent

Lowell trucking firm J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. on Oct. 15 reported third-quarter earnings down 50 percent from the same period last year.

Road Warriors Make Nice with Talks

As much as political ideologues hate it, the middle of the road can be a worthwhile meeting ground for groups long at odds with each other.

XNA Hires Extra Security Officers

The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Highfill has hired four additional security officers to patrol the facility in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorism.

American, Northwest Cancel XNA Flights

Three of the 46 round-trip flights leaving the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) were canceled permanently in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, said Scott Van Laningham, executive director of the airport in Highfill.

ABF Freight Provides New Service to Mexico

ABF Freight System Inc., the largest division of Fort Smith?s Arkansas Best Corp., announced it is now providing daily direct service to Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, after gaining border clearance through El Paso, Texas.

Midwest Aero Inc. Opens Repair-Hangar

On the east side of the runway at Carter Field in Rogers, Carl and Lois Kinney opened Midwest Aero Inc., an airplane maintenance, inspection and repair shop.

J.B. Hunt Warns of Dropping Profits

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell issued a strongly worded profit warning Sept. 18.

The NW Arkansas Executive Compensation List

H. Lee Scott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. tops the list of exectives.

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: ‘Oceanscape’ playground work begins, Mercy stroke program renewed

Walmart likely to tap insiders for expected leadership changes

Dan Wright re-elected Arkansas Farm Bureau president

Arkansas Tourism Ticker: Tourism tax numbers down through August, job numbers up