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News iN Brief, aBF acquires sMart Lines been named branch director of the
Continued from page 14 transPortation grouP Oklahoma City location, now officially
ABF Logistics has purchased Smart known as ABF Logistics.
Republican state legislators and the Lines Transportation Group, a truckload
Obama administration to come up with brokerage firm based in Oklahoma City, arkansas driver naMed to
a way to expand access to coverage for for $5.17 million on Jan. 2. aMerica’s road teaM
Arkansas’s poor residents (those earning Smart Lines, founded in 2003, has America’s Road Team represents
up to 138 percent of the federal poverty 24 employees and approximately $18 the country’s 3.2 million professional
level—around $16,000 for an individual, million in annual revenue, primarily drivers and serves as an example of the
$33,000 for a family of four.) serving the food, energy and industrial dedication and teamwork needed to
Since Arkansas’s private option segments. The acquisition will expand deliver America’s freight safely and on
took effect, a handful of other states ABF Logistics of Fort Smith, Ark. into time. Last month, American Trucking
that opted out of the Affordable Care the Oklahoma City market. Associations named 19 professional
Act’s Medicaid expansion have been lin- ABF Logistics is the third-party truck drivers as Captains of the 2015-
ing up to create similar programs that logistics arm of ArcBest Corp. and a 2016 America’s Road Team.
allow them to expand access to coverage sister company to less-than-truckload The 19 new captains have 453
to their poor residents without having carrier ABF Freight. combined years of experience and have
to subscribe to Obamacare. “The purchase of Smart Lines logged more than 30.3 million accident-
Hutchinson noted that 40 percent Transportation Group is an important free miles. Among the new captains is
of private option enrollees did not have step in our strategy to grow the emerg- Hot Springs, Ark. driver David Green of
a source of income when they first ing businesses at ArcBest and provide a Werner Enterprises.
signed up. Outlining his own goals for variety of supply chain services to our “America’s Road Team represents
future changes, he said he wants social customers in the way they expect,” said the best of what trucking can be: dedi-
programs to include incentives to work ABF Logistics President Jim Ingram. cation to safety, professionalism and
and pursue preventive care. Greg Roush, who founded Smart pride in an industry that delivers life’s
Lines and served as president, has essentials every day,” said ATA President

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