by - January 26, 2015 12:11 pm
When Wal-Mart trucker George Hart drives into the sunset March 6, he could be the second employee in Walmart’s history to log more than 4 million accident-free miles. The Anderson…
by - January 21, 2015 12:40 pm
There’s a fundamental shift underway in the transportation and logistics sector that could shorten the supply chains for shipping companies during the next few years, according to John Larkin, managing…
by - January 5, 2015 4:11 pm
The trucking industry will have to continue randomly testing at least 50% of its drivers for drug and alcohol in 2015, according to a decision by the Federal Motor Carrier…
by - December 3, 2014 8:07 pm
Arkansas-based trucking companies like Lowell-based J.B. Hunt Transport and Fort Smith-based ArcBest are involved with the American Trucking Associations push for the industry to hire 100,000 veterans in the next…
by - July 15, 2014 2:15 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services picked up steam in the second quarter after a sluggish start to fiscal 2014. The Lowell-based logistics firms reported solid net profits of $93.4 million, up…
by - June 11, 2014 2:54 pm
There is never a good time for a high-profile and deadly traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer rig, but efforts by the trucking industry to amend federal hours-of-service rules likely became…
by - May 14, 2014 12:45 pm
Chris Spear, the new chief of legislative affairs for the active American Trucking Associations’, has Arkansas connections and his former Arkansas boss says Spear “has the experience and the skills”…
by - December 4, 2013 10:36 am
A legislative delay of new hours-of-service rules is being sought by the U.S. trucking industry, but the head of Arkansas’ trucking industry says the legislative effort will not work and…
by - October 17, 2013 7:56 pm
While Congress doesn’t seem to agree on much these days, helping trucking firms keep highways safer did strike a harmonious chord during the recent government shutdown. H.R. 3095 — involving…
by - June 18, 2013 3:40 pm
What a difference a month makes. After declines in April, the American Trucking Associations’ truck tonnage index and the Cass Freight Index reported gains in May. The reports from the…
by - May 15, 2013 4:46 pm
Trucking exec Greg Carman said the industry is tough and uncertain thanks primaritly to inconsistent business trends and costly government regulations. Carman, the CEO of Fort Smith-based Carman Trucking, was…
by - December 19, 2012 5:52 pm
Two closely watched freight reports are not optimistic about the future health of freight activity in the U.S., with one report suggesting the trucking industry is facing a a potential…
by - November 30, 2012 6:35 pm
ARLINGTON, VA. — The second day of the Natural Gas and Trucking summit here began with a presentation on the politics of natural gas from U.S. Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb.,…
by - October 24, 2012 4:47 pm
This year has been a complete turnaround story for Tontitown-based P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. The traditional dry van carrier posted net profits of $880,907, or 10 cents a share in…
by - August 21, 2012 1:47 pm
A national trucking sector struggling through economic ups and downs hit the middle in July with no change in the American Trucking Associations’ Truck Tonnage Index. The index, considered a…
by - July 9, 2012 4:59 pm
The American Trucking Associations’ is predicting a slight decline in future freight growth. In 2010, the trade group estimated a 25% growth in total U.S. tonnage moved by 2021. In…
by - June 19, 2012 4:50 pm
A sentence from the Cass Freight Index well summarizes a collection of reports that track economic health through trucking industry activity: “Overall, still positive growth, but many ups and downs.”…
by - May 30, 2012 4:38 pm
BLOOMBERG — Daimler AG’s Freightliner unit demonstrated a heavy-duty truck that got 9.3 miles per gallon under realistic driving conditions, becoming the first company in the U.S. to reach fuel-economy…
by - May 16, 2012 12:10 pm
“I can’t wait for the trucking industry’s trailers to say ‘I’m running on domestic fuel—not foreign oil,” said T. Boone Pickens when asked what role the U.S. trucking industry will…
by - April 24, 2012 2:16 pm
Increases continued for tonnage hauled by the U.S. trucking industry during the first quarter of 2012, but it was slower than the pace seen during 2011. The American Trucking Associations’…
