Truck Platooning Pulls Ahead in Arkansas
The practice allows a second 18-wheeler to follow closely behind a lead truck so each can use driver-assisted technology. read more >
The practice allows a second 18-wheeler to follow closely behind a lead truck so each can use driver-assisted technology. read more >
Virginia Maggiore joined RDC in 2019. read more >
The St. Louis Fed uses council members' observations to and economic data to inform monetary policy deliberations in Washington. read more >
He's the president & CEO of Loggins Logistics of Jonesboro. read more >
Reports on three Arkansas companies last week underline some of what’s driving innovations in mobility and the high costs of forging new paths in the industry. read more >
Arkansas has become a hub for trying out new transportation options. read more >
The council's work will “lay the foundation for Arkansas leadership in the transportation industry for decades to come," the governor said. read more >
The shutdown of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River and the subsequent logistical nightmare are shining a light on an age-old problem. America’s infrastructure is old. read more >
The closure of the Hernando de Soto Bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee on Interstate 40 could cost the trucking industry more than $2.4 million a day, the Arkansas Trucking Association said Friday. read more >
In today’s political climate, even seemingly bipartisan issues like addressing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure can bog down quickly. read more >
In a tight labor market, filling the driver’s seat is back as a top challenge for trucking companies. A complicating factor: COVID-19 temporarily shut driving schools. read more >
President Biden says he wants his administration to invest more in infrastructure than the country has seen since the Eisenhower administration. read more >
The American Trucking Associations in Washington, D.C., is lobbying to ensure the nation’s drivers aren’t forgotten where the coronavirus vaccine is concerned. read more >
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the keynote speaker at the Arkansas Trucking Association's annual conference Tuesday. read more >
Desperate times calls for desperate measures, so when Shannon Newton went looking for empty bottles, she wasn’t finicky about what she found. read more >
The American consumer culture and the supply chain it depends on have both been put to the test by the restrictions and safety precautions of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
In 2012, Arkansans got to vote on a proposal to help fund highway construction. In 2020, they will get to do it again on a permanent basis. read more >
David O’Neal will become Roadrunner Transportation Systems’s vice president of safety, overseeing the safety programs of the company’s 18 subsidiaries. read more >
While Gov. Asa Hutchinson's $300 million per year plan for highways will raise diesel prices for truckers, they'll eventually come out ahead through time saved and fewer equipment repairs, the Arkansas Trucking Association says. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and legislative leaders unveil a $300 million per year plan to maintain Arkansas' roads and bridges — one billed as the largest single highway proposal in the state's history. read more >
