Expecting Better From Southwest
It’s hard to imagine a worse way to end 2022 than the way the low-cost air carrier Southwest Airlines did. read more >
It’s hard to imagine a worse way to end 2022 than the way the low-cost air carrier Southwest Airlines did. read more >
Congressional action and President Joe Biden’s signature headed off a potential rail workers’ union strike at the start of the month. read more >
Spencer Frazier, the company’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, said the initiative will bring "a new era of cooperation, connectivity and value creation." read more >
Looks like President Joe Biden might have taken a premature victory lap. read more >
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren officially became a part of DB Schenker on Thursday, Sept. 14. read more >
The transportation giant gave the school another $1.5 million — bumping its total gifts to more than $7 million since 2014 — so the university naming it the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management came as no surprise. read more >
If CEO James Reed is running around a little hectic these days, it’s no small wonder. read more >
A persistent chip shortage and a continued lack of labor make both new and used vehicles expensive read more >
Trucking industry officials have been concerned for years about the driver shortage. But one possible solution — recruiting more women drivers — can’t happen without help from Congress, one industry official said. read more >
Steuart Walton said he and his brother's goal is "to make northwest Arkansas and Bentonville in particular the best place to live in the United States." read more >
It isn’t all doom and gloom in the transportation industry, and that is good news for those who drive trucks. read more >
In the midst of the annual consternation about driver shortage are the growing research and interest in autonomous vehicles. Have trouble finding drivers? Use a truck that doesn’t need one. read more >
The electric vehicle industry has found a spot in Arkansas. read more >
The Little Rock Port Authority plans to begin installing a new security system this summer, a project funded in part by a $570,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in January. read more >
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren is joining the electric vehicle movement. read more >
The windfall is expected to provide $3.6 billion for Arkansas roads and $278 million for bridge repair and replacement. read more >
An optimist looks for good news on the horizon. A person in the transportation industry looks on the horizon and sees container ships at anchor. read more >
Craig Harper of J.B. Hunt is just as eager as any devout environmentalist to see alternative-fuel vehicles come into vogue. read more >
The nation's supply chain is suffering from the bullwhip effect, in which a seemingly minor blip in the supply-demand relationship at the bottom of the chain creates increasingly harsher reverberations as it travels up the chain. read more >
Things are going well for the state’s publicly traded transportation companies, and not just because the Interstate 40 bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Memphis and West Memphis finally reopened. read more >
