People: Arkansas Best Corporation (ABFS.O)

Mr. J. Lavon Morton has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Tax, Chief Audit Executive of Arkansas Best Corporation effective January 1, 2010. Mr. Morton had been Vice President-Tax and Chief Internal Auditor of Arkansas Best Corporation since January 1, 2000. From May 1997 to December 1999, Mr. Morton was the Company’s Vice President-Financial Reporting. Mr. Morton joined the Company as Assistant Treasurer in December 1996. Mr. Morton has overseen tax reporting since 1996. From 1972 through November 1996, Mr. Morton was employed by Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Morton was a Partner in Ernst & Young LLP from October 1984 through November 1996. Mr. Morton is a Certified Public Accountant. From January 2003 to October 2005, Mr. Morton was a Director and a designated Audit Committee Financial Expert of BEI Technologies, Inc. BEI was purchased by Schneider Electric in October 2005. Mr. Morton was Chairman of the Tax Policy Committee and a member of the American Trucking Associations Board of Directors from October 2004 to October 2007.