---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-002370"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARCB"
cik: "0000894405"
company_name: "ARCBEST CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T05:11:22.297063+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ArcBest proposes eliminating supermajority voting, adopts majority standard for director elections

## Summary
- New Charter would cut supermajority requirement (66-2/3%) to majority for mergers, asset sales, dissolution, and charter amendments; subject to stockholder approval at 2024 Annual Meeting.
- Bylaws amended effective Feb 29, 2024: uncontested director elections now require majority of votes cast (plurality in contested).
- Bylaw amendment voting threshold lowered from 75% to majority of outstanding shares entitled to vote.
- Director resignation policy clarified in uncontested elections.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-002370
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARCB
- cik: 0000894405
- company_name: ARCBEST CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000155837024002370/0001558370-24-002370-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000155837024002370/arcb-20240229x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ARCBEST CORP /DE/: Amended bylaws to adopt majority vote standard for uncontested director elections, clarify resignation policy, lower amendment voting threshold to majority, and make technical changes (effective 2024-02-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-02-29
  source text: on February 29, 2024, the Board approved and adopted the Eighth Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended and restated, the “Bylaws”), effective immediately. The Bylaws were amended to: (i) adopt a majority of votes cast standard for uncontested director elections (while retaining a plurality standard in contested elections); (ii) clarify the director resignation policy in uncontested elections; (iii) lower the voting requirement to amend the Bylaws at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders from 75% to a majority of the shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat; and (iv) make various technical and other changes to conform to the foregoing and applicable law.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894405/000155837024002370/0001558370-24-002370-index.htm

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