ArcBest Corporation Chairman, President and CEO Judy R. McReynolds Honored as One of Top 25 2016 Most Influential Women in the Mid-Market

ArcBest Corporation Chairman, President and CEO Judy R. McReynolds Honored as One of Top 25 2016 Most Influential Women in the Mid-Market

[PR Newswire] - FORT SMITH, Ark., Aug. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcBest Corporation® (ARCB) today announced that Chairman, President and CEO Judy R. McReynolds has been named as one of Top 25 2016 Most Influential Women of the Mid-Market by CEO Connection®, the only membership organization exclusively for mid-market CEOs, for the second consecutive year. "It's a great honor for me to be named to this list for the second year," said McReynolds. The Top 25 Most Influential Women honorees are selected from a large pool of nominees after extensive research, and their biographies may be found at http://www.midmarketrankings.com/influential-women/.

We’ve come a long way…

In 2006 aerodynamic devices had not penetrated the trailer market much at all. What a difference a decade makes. During July, I spent a few weeks working at a few companies in Colorado - one week spent at Rocky Mountain Institute a partner in our trucking efficiency work. My wife and I decided to drive the 2,200-mile roundtrip on I70 from Indianapolis to Denver. So, what did we do on that long lonely highway to pass the time? Of course we did, we counted the aerodynamics devices on 5,000 tractor trailers. And what we found even surprised me.

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If you own an older model pickup truck …

So the annual list of the 10 most stolen vehicles compiled by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) came out today and once again, pickup trucks made by the “Detroit Three” rank high on the list.

But not just any pickup truck models, mind you; older model pickups, ones 10 years or older to be exact, are the ones vehicle thieves focused on in 2015.

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Q&A: Sleep apnea can heighten risks for fleets

Sleep apnea not only poses a significant health risk for truck drivers, but also potentially increases liability risk for the motor carriers that employ them, too.

It's well known that obstructive sleep apnea or “OSA” is considered a major health risk for truck drivers. Indeed, a recent survey of 800 commercial vehicle operators by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) revealed almost one-third of them (28%) suffer from mild to severe sleep apnea – a number that could actually be higher, the group stressed, since sleep apnea is often unrecognized and undiagnosed.

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A bill halfway through the Ohio statehouse would permit all township police to make arrests during traffic stops on local highways. Ohio law now prohibits constables in townships with up to 50,000 residents from making arrests on portions of roadway in the national highway system that are not interstate highway.