Arkansas Best Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in motor carrier freight transportation business in the United States. It provides less-than-truckload motor carrier transportation services. Arkansas Best Corporation offers national, inter-regional, and regional transportation of general commodities, including food, textiles, apparel, furniture, appliances, chemicals, nonbulk petroleum products, rubber, plastics, metal and metal products, wood, glass, automotive parts, machinery, and other manufactured products. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas.