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Love’s opens new location along I-40 in Arkansas
The new location, in Hazen, Arkansas, offers 111 truck parking spaces, 10 diesel lanes, seven showers, an on-site Speedco opening soon, laundry facilities and more. It also offers drivers Chester’s Chicken, Godfather’s Pizza and Subway restaurants.
July 19, 2019
Business
Fuel taxes set to increase in Alabama, Arkansas
Alabama’s first fuel tax increase will take effect on Aug. 31 this year with a 6 cents-per-gallon increase. It will also increase by 2 cents on Oct. 1, 2020 and on Oct. 1, 2021. Arkansas’ 6-cent fuel tax increase will take effect Oct. 1 this year.
March 14, 2019
Business
10 toughest states for hours of service violations
Arkansas has been atop this list now for four years since overtaking the previous perennial toughest hours-violation state, Oregon, in 2014.
November 26, 2018
Custom Rigs
Video look on a 353-inch-wheelbase 1999 Classic XL and its 190-inch sleeper
Owner-op Jayme Snow showed the unit recently at the Guilty by Association Truck Show, parked up next to his parents Daniel and Phyllis Snow’s 1996 Freightliner. Jayme’s rig and its two sleeper and wheel-base extensions, among other details, are no doubt remarkable.
October 25, 2018
Channel 19
The inspiring story behind a new fallen drivers’ memorial along EB I-30 in Arkansas
Near EB I-30 in Little Rock at the edge of CalArk headquarters, the memorial began with CalArk and Central Hauling drivers’ and employees’ desire to honor the memory of trucker Wayne Gordon after his on-duty passing. In short order, however, it’s become more than just that.
October 24, 2018
Business
Fuel prices, post-ELD pressure sustain elevated rate picture on spot market
Rising fuel costs, topping $3/gal. nationally in recent weeks, have added pressure on freight rates, slowing their seasonal decline a bit. But the bigger story remains a capacity crunch that’s put truckers in the driver’s seat on rates, partly a result of proliferating ELDs.
February 1, 2018
Business
I’ve been ‘Rick-rolled’
In which Wendy stoops in the Congressional-information/influence gain: “I popped off to Rick Crawford and I was just as ugly as the face of D.C. is, and I said something nasty about him personally, and lo and behold, he responded … with a wave of the hand.”
October 2, 2017
Business
Winter weather jams up major highways in southeast
A swath of winter weather across the Southeast ranging from north Texas through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and into Virginia could begin to take a toll on highway conditions Friday afternoon into Saturday. Two states have also suspended HOS regs.
January 6, 2017
Channel 19
If you’re carrying baking soda on the truck …
You might do well to keep it in the original container … This cautionary tale of team military haulers Gale Griffin and Wendell Harvey’s two months in an Arkansas jail, their truck in impound, shows the unreliability of cheap roadside narcotics-ID kits.
November 28, 2016
Business
Weaver of tales, some of them true
Anybody familiar with an ol’ boy running out of Arkansas, name of Bill Weaver? He’s usually got a guitar with him, and last I saw him, he was hauling Ranger boats with a Freightliner cabover, in and out of Flippin, Arkansas.
October 7, 2016
Business
Stoking the log fires: Hours violations, fleet size and ELDs
The smallest carriers are feeling the heat of hours enforcement in select states, even as violations declined nationally in 2015.
July 11, 2016
Business
Update: Top 10 toughest states for hours of service violations
Since Overdrive’s CSA’s Data Trail series began with analysis of the 2011-12 period in 2013, when there were just three states above the 20 percent mark for hours violations, there have never been as many states above that mark than today. For this year, Arkansas, Wyoming top the list.
June 28, 2016
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