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Major expansion came with the carrier's purchase of Navajo Freight Lines in 1979. Route 1 connected Arkansas-Best's New England and southeastern operations. The subsequent acquisition of the operating rights of Akers Motor Lines along U.S. which expanded its midwestern operations. Day Truck Line, Associated Transport, Western Gillette, and a portion of the routes of Great Lakes Express Co. In the 1970s, Arkansas-Best developed into a nationwide carrier through acquisitions of southeastern US carrier Youngblood Truck Lines in 1971 and all or part of H.A. This was followed the next year by the acquisition of Krema Truck Lines in the Chicago area.
which extended their network into New York. In 1968, after a decade of expansion by acquiring route authorities in the southern, midwestern, and eastern US, Arkansas-Best acquired Fast Freight Co. In 1966, Young founded Arkansas Best Corporation as a holding company for Arkansas-Best to facilitate diversification.
Arkansas-Best also acquired Delta Motor Line expanding its reach to New Orleans. At the time, Arkansas-Best estimated it would have revenues of approximately US$18 million for 1961. It was expected to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arkansas-Best. Healzer had been founded in 1930 in Hutchinson, Kansas and at the time of acquisition reported nearly US$3 million annually in revenue. Īrkansas-Best again expanded in 1961 when it acquired Healzer Cartage of Kansas City, Missouri for US$500,000. The company name changed again when, after Young acquired Dallas, Texas-based Best Motor Freight in 1956, he merged the two companies in 1957 as Arkansas-Best Freight System Inc. purchased Arkansas Motor Freight Lines, Inc. Until 1935, it had operated only within Arkansas but its acquisition of Motor Express made it an interstate carrier. The company was founded Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1923 as OK Transfer, the name it used until 1935 when it acquired Arkansas Motor Freight (AMF) and took that company's name. ABF Freight System, Inc., a subsidiary of ArcBest Corporation, is an American national less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier based in Fort Smith, Arkansas.