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CHARLES Arnold
AT-A-GLANCE

Family Charles and his wife celebrated 20 years of marriage in Oct. 2019.
He has two children, a daughter who lives in Austin, Texas, and a son,
formerly in the Navy, is in the construction business in Little Rock. His
only grandchild (18 months old) lives in Austin.

What do you listen to on road trips? Sports radio, especially during
the fall when he can listen to broadcasts of his favorite teams: the Dallas
Cowboys and the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Do you have nicknames for your cars or trucks? No. I have a boat
that I haven’t even named.

Favorite genre of books and movies History. Documentaries.

Favorite show Modern Marvels

Stress relief “Being on the lake and being able to get in the afternoons
and roll out onto the lake and watch the sunset and know that God’s
there and everything’s good.”

On his bucket list Finishing his degree at UALR and learning to
play the piano

in interaction with his customers.
“When bid packages come in.
IT’S REALLY PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY You’re basically one of a thousand carri-
SATISFYING TO BE ABLE TO BE BACK HERE IN ers that are bidding on the freight. And
everything is run by the system. They
ARKANSAS RUNNING A TRUCKING COMPANY. OUR run the analytics on your pricing and
STATE’S GOT SOME OF THE TOP NOTCH TRUCKING decide whether or not you’re the carrier
COMPANIES OUT THERE THAT ARE RUNNING THE of choice or not and the relationship
side has really moved away. And that’s
ROADS. TO BE ABLE TO BE BACK HERE AND BACK just the way the industry is moving, so
HOME AND HAVING A COMPANY AND BEING PART OF we’re moving with it.”
THAT GROUP IS SOMETHING PRETTY SPECIAL. Moving with it took him from
Camden, to Little Rock, back to
—CHARLES ARNOLD, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF Camden, to Memphis, to Dallas, and
now back to Little Rock.
TWIN CITY TRANSPORTATION “I’ve made full circle of my career,”
says Arnold. “It’s really professionally
and personally satisfying to be able to be
back here in Arkansas running a truck-
miles on it. Some of those miles came office, Arnold likes reading or watch- ing company. Our state’s got some of the
from traveling back and forth to his ing documentaries about leaders in any top notch trucking companies out there
home in Hot Springs every day, but a big field, specifically the visionaries like Ford, that are running the roads. To be able to
chunk of the mileage is the result of vis- Edison, and Jobs, who saw a future no be back here and back home and having
iting customers in Texas, Chicago, and one else did. He’s not one to fear change a company and being part of that group
states farther north. or the future. It’s no surprise the only is something pretty special.” ATR
When he’s not on the road or in the thing he laments is the potential decrease

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