Arkansas News Updates

A 15-state enforcement dragnet spearheaded by Oklahoma from Canada to the Gulf Coast led to the arrests of more than 40 foreign truck drivers with deportation orders.

Governors across the country are temporarily easing dyed diesel restrictions and suspending fuel taxes as diesel prices remain elevated over year-ago levels.

Missouri is planning to raise speed limits to 75 mph on four interstates near the Iowa and Arkansas borders by the end of the year.

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.