---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-004922"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARCB"
cik: "0000894405"
company_name: "ARCBEST CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-01-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T17:48:19.443734+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ArcBest CAO Traci Sowersby to retire; Jason Parks named successor effective March 1, 2023

## Summary
- Traci Sowersby, VP–controller and CAO, informed company she will retire in February 2023.
- Jason Parks, currently assistant corporate controller, will replace Sowersby as VP–controller and CAO effective March 1, 2023.
- Parks joined ArcBest in 2014; previously senior manager at Ernst & Young for nine years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-004922
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARCB
- cik: 0000894405
- company_name: ARCBEST CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-01-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000110465922004922/0001104659-22-004922-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000110465922004922/tm223233d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-004922
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-004922.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-004922.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jason Parks was appointed as vice president – controller and chief accounting officer at ARCBEST CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: vice president – controller and chief accounting officer
  source text: Jason Parks, currently assistant corporate controller, will replace Ms. Sowersby and become vice president – controller and chief accounting officer of the Company, effective March 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000110465922004922/0001104659-22-004922-index.htm
- Executive change
  Traci L. Sowersby departed as vice president – controller and chief accounting officer at ARCBEST CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: vice president – controller and chief accounting officer
  source text: Traci L. Sowersby, vice president – controller and chief accounting officer of ArcBest Corporation (the “Company”), informed the Company that she will be retiring in February 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000110465922004922/0001104659-22-004922-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.