Shareholders voted to re-elect three members of the company’s board of directors and approved, in an advisory vote, of the company’s executive compensation plan. read more >

John Simone, the CEO and president of USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren, received nearly $1.4 million in salary and bonuses in 2014 according to the company’s latest proxy. read more >

USA Truck Inc. CEO John Simone is taking an indefinite leave of absence because of a recent diagnosis of a "serious medical condition," the Van Buren trucking company said Monday. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren on Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter profit of $4.2 million, up from a $4.6 million loss in the same quarter last year. read more >

Politics, white-collar crime, banking acquisitions, Turner Grain and more. Arkansas Business recaps the top 10 stories from the year that was 2014. read more >

From best investment to worst financial projects, Arkansas Business recaps the best and worst of 2014. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren names Greg Lutes vice president and general manager of the company’s dedicated freight team. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren reported its most profitable quarter in eight years Monday. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren appoints Michael K. Borrows, a former executive at Kansas City Southern and BNSF Railway, as its new chief financial officer. Borrows succeeds Clifton R. Beckham, formerly the company's CEO, who announced in August that he would leave the company. read more >

Thanks to conservative living and USA Truck’s generosity — the company is letting Beckham keep a $75,000 bonus he received in April — Beckham doesn’t have to make hasty job decisions any time soon. For 20 years he invested his disposable income in USA Truck stock, the same stock he nervously began to sell, for the first time, on Aug. 11. read more >

Listen to any Arkansas trucking company executive — with the possible exception of unionized ABF Freight — and you will hear lamentations about driver shortages in the industry. Short of cultural change to repopularize the job, executives know they have to pay more to attract drivers and work harder to keep them. The trend doesn’t look like it is going to get any better anytime soon. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren says Clifton R. Beckham, the company's former CEO and now its executive vice president and CFO, will resign effective Sept. 30, part of a planned transition that began when Beckham helped hire the trucking firm's chief executive John Simone. read more >

USA Truck of Van Buren reported its first profitable quarter since 2011 on Thursday, bringing in net income of $700,000, or 7 cents per share. The profit came even after a tough first half of the year marked by hard winter weather and a driver shortage that continues to dog the industry. read more >

Driver recruiting and retention — we’ll lump them together as one entity — is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry. Recent federal regulations with strict guidelines regarding drive and break times only complicate trucking companies’ ability to attract and keep drivers, officials said. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren posts another quarterly loss, but it was narrower than the trucking firm reported last year, and the company beat analysts' estimates for quarterly revenue. read more >

The new CEO who fought off a hostile takeover attempt also received a $265,000 bonus earlier this month. read more >

Cliff Beckham is the chief financial officer at USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren, a company that certainly had an interesting 2013. The trucking company brought in a new CEO and several new executives, fought off — for the time being — a hostile takeover bid by a competitor and saw its fifth consecutive annual net loss. read more >

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren reports a fourth-quarter net loss of $4.6 million, or 45 cents per share, a bigger loss than the $3.2 million, or 31 cents per share, it reported in the same quarter last year. read more >

Phoenix-based Knight Transportation is now third on the list of shareholders of Van Buren’s USA Truck. read more >

USA Truck Inc. CEO John Simone says the company's progress in the third quarter is a sign the management’s turnaround plan was working. Simone, speaking at the Stephens 2013 Fall Investment Conference at the New York Palace Hotel, said his company's resurgence was for real. USA Truck is currently trying to fight off a takeover attempt by rival Knight Transporation Inc of Phoenix. read more >