Stories by Emma Hurt

  • Goals, reality often clash for truck drivers

    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…

  • A better life is driver-school lure for many

    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 …

  • Retailer consults women drivers

    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…

  • Acxiom sports five new patents

    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.

  • Trucking firms leery of Fort Smith's plans

    A Fort Smith nonprofit has released a plan to revitalize the city's downtown, which has some members of the local transportation industry concerned.

  • Ex-CEO on to new venture

    Longtime Arkansas technology leader Charles Morgan is concentrating his efforts on protecting consumers from phone scammers and spammers.

  • Appeal refused, semis go to e-logs

    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…

  • Rigs shifting to automatic transmissions

    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.

  • Acxiom to start 'alumni' program

    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, …

  • Trucking board new chief kept ear to ground

    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…

  • Trucker program moves lost pets

    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…

  • In D.C., state truckers talk key issues

    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…

  • Acxiom reports $8.1M 4Q loss

    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…

  • Taking smartphone for a ride

    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…

  • Longtime exec to lead new J.B. Hunt unit

    Shelley Simpson has been named chief commercial officer and president of a new Highway Services segment at J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc.

  • USA Truck again posts loss

    USA Truck on Wednesday reported its fifth-consecutive quarterly loss and postponed its expectation of profitability to the third quarter of this year.

  • Acxiom leases space for staff in Little Rock

    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…

  • Vietnamese plant near state debut

    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…

  • Hunt's $2.75M to set up UA hub

    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…

  • Apparel website is added to lineup

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. added another e-commerce company to its portfolio Friday, acquiring women's clothing retailer ModCloth for an undisclosed amount.

  • Trump budget ends air subsidy

    President Donald Trump inaugural budget includes a proposal to eliminate the program that subsidizes commercial air service to Harrison, Hot Springs and El Dor…

  • Data-driven USA Truck on way

    As USA Truck's president and CEO of about six weeks, James Reed has already started changing things at the Van Buren campus.

  • Acxiom tower sells for $25M

    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…

  • Accrued data driving force, truckers say

    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…

  • UA center researches inland waterways

    With the third-largest number of navigable, inland waterway miles in the nation, Arkansas is a logical headquarters for the Maritime Transportation Research an…

  • Truffle firm rooted in Arkansas

    In the forests of Northwest Arkansas, a teenage Ian Purkayastha first discovered his passion for mushrooms and rare, wild foods.

  • ArcBest 4Q profit falls in revamping

    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…

  • Acxiom profit $1.1M for 3Q

    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.

  • Arkansas artists’ wallpaper goes global

    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…

  • J.B. Hunt's revenue, profit up

    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…

  • J.B. Hunt, BNSF will review revenue split

    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…

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