Platform helps firms keep tabs on supply chain
CaseStack, a supply chain management and retail consolidation provider, has been working on something new in Fayetteville.
CaseStack, a supply chain management and retail consolidation provider, has been working on something new in Fayetteville.
When Corey Marler had to close his sheet metal construction company after an injury, the Rogers resident applied to a temp agency to pay his bills. It took mon…
James Main is a veteran of the National Guard and Operation Desert Storm. He worked in a turkey plant before getting gangrene in a hand from a piece of turkey …
Carol Nixon joined more than 100 of her fellow women Wal-Mart Stores Inc. truck drivers in Bentonville earlier this month for the company's first Women in Truc…
When Scott Howe took over as chief executive of Acxiom Corp. in 2011, the company only had three patents to show for its four decades in existence.
A Fort Smith nonprofit has released a plan to revitalize the city's downtown, which has some members of the local transportation industry concerned.
Longtime Arkansas technology leader Charles Morgan is concentrating his efforts on protecting consumers from phone scammers and spammers.
After years of planning and preparation, Arkansas' first virtual weigh station is up and running.
Marking the final legal step in nearly two decades of debate in the trucking industry, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging the…
For 44 years, Jerry Whittenburg drove more than 4 million safe miles in a truck with a manual transmission. He had no reason to change anytime soon.
When Scott Howe joined Acxiom Corp. in 2011 as president and CEO, he was signing up for a turnaround. After the company's fiscal-year earnings release in May, …
Al Heringer IV was not planning to go into trucking. The plan was to work for QuikTrip in Tulsa, then go back to Jonesboro and follow in the footsteps of three…
After hearing and watching the horror stories of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Sue Weise felt compelled to do something to help. She just didn't know wh…
For the ninth year, members of the Arkansas Trucking Association are in Washington, D.C., to talk face-to-face with legislators about the top issues the indust…
It's difficult to find a technology company in central Arkansas that has not been touched by the region's original tech success stories: Acxiom Corp. and Syste…
Acxiom Corp. reported an $8.1 million loss for their fourth quarter Tuesday, but executives called 2017 "a milestone year," pointing to improving profit margin…
At a family-owned motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle dealership in Little Rock with five full-time employees, virtual reality viewers have become as commonplac…
After a few months of leadership turnover and executive vacancies, the changing of the guard at USA Truck is coming to an end.
Shelley Simpson has been named chief commercial officer and president of a new Highway Services segment at J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc.
The field of technology upstarts "uber-izing" the trucking industry is getting crowded, from Convoy and Transfix to Uber Freight and Cargomatic.
ArcBest Corp. reported a $7.4 million loss for its first quarter of 2017, or 29 cents loss per share, missing analysts' average expectation of 12 cents loss pe…
USA Truck on Wednesday reported its fifth-consecutive quarterly loss and postponed its expectation of profitability to the third quarter of this year.
Scott Howe wants Arkansas to know that Acxiom is growing and he's excited about it.
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. made $2.3 million in its first-quarter, down 22 percent from the same time last year.
After about a year and a half at USA Truck, the president of its struggling truckload segment, Martin Tewari, resigned in early March, continuing a recent seri…
Acxiom Corp. has signed a five-year lease on two floors of a building at 301 Main St. in Little Rock, about two weeks after announcing the sale of its 12-story…
In 2013, the state of Arkansas announced that the first Vietnamese company to open a manufacturing plant in the United States selected Morrilton as its new hom…
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and the University of Arkansas are creating the J.B. Hunt Innovation Center of Excellence by way of a $2.75 million investmen…
Inuvo may not have begun in Arkansas, but the digital publishing and advertising technology company purposefully selected it as its home.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. added another e-commerce company to its portfolio Friday, acquiring women's clothing retailer ModCloth for an undisclosed amount.
President Donald Trump inaugural budget includes a proposal to eliminate the program that subsidizes commercial air service to Harrison, Hot Springs and El Dor…
As USA Truck's president and CEO of about six weeks, James Reed has already started changing things at the Van Buren campus.
Acxiom Corp. has sold its Little Rock building on East Third Street and is moving its headquarters back to Conway, the company said Friday. Simmons Bank of Pin…
In the trucking industry -- where profit margins are narrow and every cent and second can have repercussions -- analytics has a good chance of affecting result…
With the third-largest number of navigable, inland waterway miles in the nation, Arkansas is a logical headquarters for the Maritime Transportation Research an…
Representatives from Uber Freight, a segment of Uber that focuses on matching trucks with loads to be shipped as well as on self-driving truck technology, met …
In the forests of Northwest Arkansas, a teenage Ian Purkayastha first discovered his passion for mushrooms and rare, wild foods.
The trucking industry is grappling with how Arkansas' recent legalization of medical marijuana will affect it.
ArcBest Corp. reported a profit of $1.6 million for the fourth quarter on Wednesday, nearly 70 percent less than last year's report, reflecting the costs of th…
USA Truck Inc. posted its fourth-consecutive quarterly loss Tuesday, prompting shares to drop to their lowest value in over three years.
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. finished off what its chief executive called a "very challenging year" with about $720,000 in quarterly profit, down nearly…
As a professional engineer and forester, U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) brings a different perspective to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commi…
Acxiom Corp. reported $1.1 million in profit for its fiscal 2017 third quarter on Tuesday, reversing a $1.4 million loss in the same quarter in fiscal 2016.
USA Truck named its current chief financial officer, James Reed, as president and chief executive officer Monday. His new job is effective immediately.
In a converted seed mill off of Arkansas 23 in the Ozarks, Heidi and Christian Batteau are at work hand-making luxury wallpaper and shipping it around the worl…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has started laying off employees at the corporate level, following up on previously revealed plans to eliminate positions to help control …
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. reported increases in revenue and profit Thursday for the final quarter of 2016, though its stock dropped as the market react…
Timex Group will close its North Little Rock distribution center by the end of 2017, the company said Wednesday.
Much has changed over the course of Idella Hansen's life, but one thing has remained constant: a love for driving.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and BNSF Railway Co. both exercised the right Tuesday to arbitrate the details of the division of revenue in their joint serv…