USAT Logistics, the non-asset arm of USA Truck, opens a Mexican subsidiary.

The truckload carrier is reducing the size of its company fleet but hopes a pay hike will attract more independent contractors.

USA Truck recorded improved profits and operating ratios for both the fourth quarter and full year of 2015, despite double-digit drops in revenue, even excluding fuel surcharges, for both periods.

Former Con-way executive joins USA Truck as the truckload carrier continues to build profitability.

USA Truck is changing CEOs, but not the strategies that helped the truckload carrier return to profit last year after several years of losses.

John Simone, the CEO who drove USA Truck back to profitability last year after several years of losses, will take medical leave. Director Thomas Glaser will serve as interim chief operating officer.

The publicly owned trucking companies tracked by JOC.com finished 2014 with $41.5 billion in combined revenue, a 10.9 percent improvement over 2013 attributed to growing industrial output, imports, exports and consumer confidence.

After a strenuous overhaul of its business model to better match evolving shipper supply chain needs, USA Truck returned to profitability in 2014. A stronger U.S. economy and lower fuel prices also helped.

The third quarter was good to practically all the publicly owned U.S. trucking companies: none reported losses, and their combined revenue rose 10.7 percent to more than $10 billion, supported by a second quarter of stronger freight demand and economic growth.

The Journal of Commerce Truckload Capacity Index rose unexpectedly in the third quarter to a four-year high, but that doesn’t mean more tractor-trailers rolled onto highways and up to shipper docks. Instead, the leap in the index reflects a gathering concentration of capacity at the top of trucking’s food chain, as larger motor carriers acquire and absorb smaller companies to secure drivers, equipment and freight revenue.

USA Truck reported a net loss of $2.5 million in the first quarter of 2013, improving from a net loss of $4.9 million in the first quarter of 2012.

USA Truck reported a net loss of $3.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, an improvement compared with the net loss of $4.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Struggling truckload carrier USA Truck suffered a second-quarter net loss of $3.5 million, as revenue dropped 6.8 percent year-over-year to $129.6 million.

Celadon Trucking’s freight revenue dropped 6 percent in the third quarter, but the truckload carrier’s profit rose 23 percent as tighter cost controls and higher pricing improved yield.