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ArcBest Corporation is an American holding company for truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight, freight brokerage, household good moving, and transportation management companies. Historically, the company also owned furniture, banking, and other diverse subsidiaries. The company ranked fifteenth among for-hire carriers in the US for 2020 according to industry journal Transport Topics.
Arkansas Best Corp. went public on the NYSE as "ABZ" in 1972. At the time, in addition to Arkansas-Best Freight System, it also owned Riverside Furniture Corporation, the National Bank of Commerce of Dallas, Texas, Data-Tronic Corporation, and Arkansas Bandag Corporation. In 1978, the company acquired Navajo Freight Lines. In 1988, the company was the subject of a hostile takeover which resulted in a leveraged buyout to take the company private. It went public again, this time on the Nasdaq, in 1992.
ABF acquired financially troubled Worldway Corp. and its subsidiaries Carolina Freight Carriers Corp., G.I. Trucking Co., Red Arrow Freight Lines Inc., Cardinal Freight Carriers Inc., Innovative Logistics Inc., and CaroTrans International Inc. in 1995 for . G.I. Trucking was subsequently sold in 2001 into joint ownership of a group of G.I. senior management and LTL carrier Estes Express Lines and was fully acquired by Estes in 2005. Further acquisitions by ABF in the 2010s included Albert Moving in 2011 and Panther Expedited for in 2012. In 2013, it created ABF Logistics.
In 2014, Arkansas Best was renamed ArcBest Corporation. This was followed in 2015 by the acquisition of Smart Lines Transportation Group and Bear Transportation Services and in 2016 by the acquisition of Logistics & Distribution Services. Also in 2016, the company reorganized rebranding many of its services under the name ArcBest.
In 2021, ArcBest acquired MoLo Solutions, a truckload brokerage company based in Chicago. The deal was priced at upfront and up to an additional if MoLo hits certain revenue benchmarks by 2025. ArcBest intended to merge MoLo's operations and its existing brokerage operations onto a single platform.
In July 2025, ArcBest announced that CEO Judy McReynolds would be retiring at the end of the year and replacing her would be current president Seth Runser.
The company reports its revenue in two segments: asset-based (which consists of ABF Freight) and asset-light (all other operations).
ABF Freight is a unionized truckload and LTL freight company based in Fort Smith and is ArcBest's largest subsidiary representing about of ArcBest's approximately revenue in 2019.
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