Arkansas Trucking Association Unveils New Website The Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) has created a new and improved website that former ATA President Lane Kidd says is a “dynamic, centralized communications hub geared to the needs of our association members and other important audiences in today’s information intensive, 24/7 world.” ArkansasTrucking.com now has a much more […]
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Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse Enacted by FMCSA Required under MAP-21, last year’s highway reauthorization bill, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced on February 12 a proposed rule to establish a drug and alcohol clearinghouse for all national commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders. The Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, as it’s known,
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Arkansas Best Opens Health Clinic for Employees Arkansas Best Corp., the parent company of ABF Freight System, Inc. of Fort Smith, is opening a primary care clinic less than a half mile from its headquarters to serve more than 1,000 employees and their dependents. IMWell Health of Fort Smith will manage the clinic, which will
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Fayetteville Firm Develops Traffic Warning System Fayetteville, Arkansas-based VisuaLogistic Technologies entered into a partnership with the state, to introduce its Automated Detection Alert System, or ADAS, to Arkansas highways. The system entails a series of wireless, solar-powered roadside sensors placed roughly a quarter-mile apart that are updated in real time to inform drivers of what’s
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Griffin’s Political Sabbatical Cut Short Four months after declaring he would not seek a third term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) said he will run for Arkansas Lt. Governor, joining a crowded field of Republican candidates. ”Last year, I announced my decision not to seek re-election to Congress when my term ends. The
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New tax rules that start January 1 will change the way trucking companies and other U.S. businesses account for real estate and business equipment and could create room for more same-year deductions rather than multiyear depreciation, according to several tax experts. “If you can deduct it immediately, you’ll recover the expenditure faster. Otherwise, it could
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The number of freight brokers disappearing from the federal rolls has been increasing by the hundreds every day since December 1, following the new requirement to carry a $75,000 bond, boosted from $10,000 by the MAP-21 highway funding act passed last year. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a notice in September 2012
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From The President’s Desk The ‘power of association’ is a phrase we often use. The phrase is perfect in the way it describes how the Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) has consistently performed well for its’ member companies. Simply put, the power of association is about leveraging the collective strengths of individual companies. Conversely, the
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From The President’s Desk Business owners—trucking and otherwise—have a hard time seeing the forest for the trees. In the big picture, things are going great. Business is booming; there was a surge of Class 8 truck orders this fall. But company owners don’t like to brag about how we’ll they’re doing. And in trucking, we tend
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Arkansas Trucking Association
P.O. Box 3476 72203
1401 West Capitol Ave.
Suite 185
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 372-3462
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