JB Hunt Transport Services anunció el miércoles que ha construido una instalación solar para alimentar su sede corporativa en Lowell, Arkansas. El proveedor de transporte multimodal dijo que una instalación en la cercanía de Gentry, Arkansas, será capaz de impulsar el 80% de su campus principal,...
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J.B. Hunt builds 40-acre solar farm to power headquarters
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Wednesday that it has built a solar facility to power its corporate headquarters in Lowell, Arkansas.
The multimodal transportation provider said a facility in nearby Gentry, Arkansas, will be capable of powering 80% of its main campus, which includes three buildings. The 40-acre solar field has nearly 18,000 panels and more than 10,000 bi-facial solar panels, which capture sunlight and produce power on both sides of the panel.
Approximately 9.3 million...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-builds-40-acre-solar-farm-to-power-headquarters
J.B. Hunt Q4 earnings: First look
J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported headline earnings per share of $1.53 Thursday after the market closed. The result included $16 million of intangible asset impairments, or about a 13-cent-per-share headwind at the recent quarter tax rate. The consensus estimate for the period was $1.62 per share.
Consolidated revenue fell 5% year over year to $3.15 billion. Adjusted operating income of $223 million was 13% lower y/y.
J.B. Hunt (NASDAQ: JBHT) will host a call at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-q4-earnings-first-look
J.B. Hunt’s record intermodal loads came with higher costs in Q4
J.B. Hunt Transport Services said peak season for its intermodal and highway services segments was strong and that it’s seeing some customers secure capacity earlier than normal, which is usually a harbinger of an improving environment.
The Lowell, Arkansas-based multimodal transportation provider reported earnings per share of $1.53 Thursday after the market closed. The result included a roughly 13-cent headwind, or $16 million, from intangible asset impairments. The consensus estimate for the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunts-record-intermodal-loads-came-with-higher-costs-in-q4
Why Susquehanna is getting bullish on trucking
The truckload market enters 2025 showing signs of stabilization after nearly three years of freight recession. While earnings remain depressed across the sector, Susquehanna analyst Bascome Majors sees reasons for optimism that the industry is poised for recovery over the next two years. In a Friday client note, Majors writes that “tangible signs of progress are still incremental – a holiday peak with seasonal lifts in tender rejection rates and slightly super-seasonal dry van spot rates,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-susquehanna-is-getting-bullish-on-trucking
Learning by listening to drivers – Taking the Hire Road
On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Josh Hankins, senior vice president of safety, security and driver personnel at J.B. Hunt, sat down with guest host Leah Shaver, president and CEO of The National Transportation Institute, to discuss how listening to drivers and jumping in-cab helps to drive the direction he and his team take with policies, and to highlight J.B. Hunt and Carol Ekster’s new book, “Trucker Kid.”
Hankins has been with J.B. Hunt for nearly 20 years. He started part...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/learning-by-listening-to-drivers-taking-the-hire-road
J.B. Hunt eyes intermodal pricing inflection
J.B. Hunt Transport Services moved a record number of intermodal loads during the third quarter, but service issues and cost headwinds have constrained margins. After two years of declining yields, the company could be nearing an inflection on the pricing front.
Management from the company told investors Tuesday at Stephens annual investment conference in Nashville, Tennessee, that rail service in its Eastern network is excellent. However, it continues to see hiccups on transcontinental lanes...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-eyes-intermodal-pricing-inflection
J.B. Hunt CEO talks need for industry collaboration at F3
“Courageous collaboration” across the transportation and logistics industry is what’s needed to fuel further innovation, Shelley Simpson, CEO and president of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, said in a keynote address at FreightWaves F3 in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Tuesday.
The comment harkened back to a 1989 handshake agreement between the company’s founder Johnnie Bryan Hunt and Mike Haverty, president of the Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF Railway), which created the foundation for intermodal...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-ceo-talks-need-for-industry-collaboration-at-f3
J.B. Hunt announces changes to executive team
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Monday changes to the executive management team as it prepares for an eventual upturn in the freight market.
Nick Hobbs will continue as chief operating officer and will become president of highway services and the final-mile segment. Hobbs will oversee the company’s brokerage and truckload businesses as the head of highway services.
The company reported a seventh consecutive operating loss in its brokerage segment during the third quarter.
Hobbs was...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-announces-changes-to-executive-team
J.B. Hunt, UP.Labs create FreightTech lab
J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT) announced Wednesday it is teaming up with venture group UP.Labs to create a logistics-focused technology incubator for startups looking to solve industry challenges.
“From the inception of modern intermodal transit to digital freight matching platforms to emerging safety technology and beyond, J.B. Hunt has always been people focused, technology empowered and capacity driven, and we’ve been on an innovation journey since our founding in 1961. … Our...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-up-labs-create-freighttech-lab