Arkansas News Updates

Overroute is the first startup to emerge from a joint venture freight and logistics technology incubator between J.B. Hunt and UP.Labs.

The service centers are in smaller markets, and ArcBest plans to consolidate their operations into other facilities within the affected regions.

J.B. Hunt executives highlighted how heightened DOT enforcement has accelerated market changes while reporting the company’s second-quarter financial results.

The current enforcement environment reflects a return to a rule that dates to 1937 but was unevenly applied for much of the past decade.

Truckers across the U.S. are having freight stolen at a rate amounting to $18 million each day, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.

Maverick Transportation on May 13 said that its flatbed over-the-road drivers will receive a 4-cents-per-mile pay increase effective May 31.

The facility at the Big River Steel Works in Osceola will supply an intermediate product known as direct reduced iron to the site’s existing electric arc furnaces.

The Fort Smith, Ark.-based logistics company posted a net loss from continuing operations of $8.12 million, or a loss of 36 cents a diluted share, for the three months ending Dec. 31.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has awarded $4.6 million to five port infrastructure projects to help boost the state’s economy. Arkansas boasts 1,000 miles of navigable waterways.

ArcBest plans to launch a proprietary transportation management system in early 2026 that will be known as “ArcBest View,” top executives said.