Transport Topics (January 12, 2021)

ArcBest announced yesterday that the president of its less-than-truckload subsidiary fleet ABF Freight will retire later this year. Tim Thorne spent more than three decades with the carrier, joining first as a supervisor assistant in 1990 and becoming president in October 2014. Thorne will retire June 30, and he will be succeeded by Seth Runser, who currently works as the vice president of linehaul operations at ABF. Runser has been with the company since 2007.

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