Arkansas Best

The Teamsters union has come out guns blazing in the first of four separate negotiations with freight companies in the United States and Canada over the next year. In what is likely merely a negotiating ploy, the Teamsters negotiating committee said a strike authorization had been approved by members covered under ABF Freight’s National Master Freight Agreement (NMFA).

In a move designed to expand its end-to-end service offering, freight transportation and logistics services provider Arkansas Best Corp. said today it has agreed to acquire Panther Expedited Services, a Seville, Ohio-based asset-light provider of expedited ground and freight forwarding services and premium logistics services, from its owner Fenway Services LLC, a middle market private equity firm.