Business as Usual for Arkansas Truckers
Nothing much has changed for Gary Mars and his colleagues during the coronavirus pandemic, except for a greater difficulty in finding somewhere they can go to the bathroom. read more >
Tagged: Transportation
SAU Research Awarded $291,000 by ArDOT
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is paying Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia to test if wood can be used in asphalt production. read more >
Road Tax Proponents Already Revving Up
A constitutional amendment to make a half-cent sales tax permanent goes before Arkansas voters on Nov. 3. Those in favor of the amendment, which would dedicate the tax revenue to the state highway fund, are already out beating the bushes to drum up support. read more >
Hiring Veterans Personal for J.B. Hunt’s John Roberts
J.B. Hunt CEO and President John Roberts III says his company has reached its 2014 goal of hiring 10,000 military veterans by 2020. read more >
Waltons Fly STEM Camp to Bentonville
The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., will expand its She Can STEM Summer Camp to Thaden Field in Bentonville for two weeks next summer. read more >
XNA Survives Lights Out After October Tornado
When a tornado rumbled through Benton County in the early hours of Oct. 21 and knocked out electricity to the airport, things could have gone bad pretty quickly. read more >
Trucking Alliance Finds Survey Results Hair Raising
The Trucking Alliance has preached driver safety for years, lobbying for electronic logging devices and hair testing drivers for illegal drug use. Now, the Alliance says it has some concrete and scary numbers to support its stance on hair testing. read more >
2019 Proves to Be Spotty Year in Trucking
Butch Rice doesn’t believe the doom and gloom bandied about in some quarters about the trucking industry. "I feel the economy is OK," said Rice, the president and CEO of Stallion Transportation in Beebe. "Right now the market is back to normal. We're back to doing the daily grind." read more >
USA Truck's $1,000 Profit Worth Bragging About
When a public company reports a whopping $1,000 in quarterly profits, as USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren did in late July, it isn’t really something that executives will cut out and paste on the lunchroom refrigerator. read more >
Planes, Trains and Barges: Little Rock Port Authority Turns 60
Lance Fritz, the head of Union Pacific Railroad, said last week during a Q&A panel celebrating the Little Rock Port Authority's 60th anniversary that he had cautionary words for President Trump regarding the country’s trade war with China. read more >
Fare Awareness Pushed in Effort to Promote XNA
The Northwest Arkansas Council’s new FareFlightNWA program makes the argument to travelers that flying out of Northwest Arkansas Airport might not be as terrible financially as it would seem. read more >
Northwest Arkansas Plugs Into Innovation
Nelson Peacock is hopeful that the arrival of a global innovation company will help spur northwest Arkansas’ business ecosystem and solve some nagging logistical problems. read more >
New ATA Hire Skylar Hatfield Following in Dad’s Tire Tracks
Skylar Hatfield, the new director of safety services at the Arkansas Trucking Association, has an appreciation and love for trucking that comes naturally. read more >
Highway Funding Plan Hurts Poor, Critic Says
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed legislation that will raise an estimated $95 million annually for the state’s highways, but a public policy group says the sales tax portion is too regressive. read more >
Highway Work Ahead, And It’s About Time
The long-delayed Arkansas highway funding initiative moved along this week, passing a Senate committee with one official no vote. read more >
Arkansas' Highways to Nowhere
Arkansas needs hundreds of millions more dollars to adequately maintain current roads and bridges and keep up with future needs. The last new money the state dug up for Arkansas highways was $50 million the governor scraped together in 2016 from existing sources. read more >
I-49 Bypass Gets Its Wish: A $25M Grant
The bypass is a 19-mile stretch of Interstate 49 that will sweep around Bella Vista to the west and reconnect in southern Missouri. It is the only uncompleted stretch of Interstate 49 between Kansas City and Fort Smith. read more >
Road Funding in Arkansas Still Elusive
Gov. Asa Hutchinson sees highway funding as a priority when the state’s next legislative session opens in January. read more >
New XNA CEO Aaron Burkes to Hit Runway Running
Aaron Burkes was named Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport’s new CEO and executive director in late September and will start work on Nov. 1. read more >
ArcBest Calls Stock Analysis Reporting 'Defamatory'
Stocks of ArcBest recently dropped following an online report raising issues with the company's accounting. As the stock price dropped, ArcBest did damage control. read more >
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