Arkansas Best selling Wingfoot share

Arkansas Best Corp. will sell its 19% ownership of Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems LLC to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for 71.3 million cash. Upon the closing of the transaction, Arkansas Best expects to record a pre-tax gain of approximately $12 million in the second quarter of 2003. It expects to use the proceeds to reduce the outstanding debt under its credit agreement, which it said currently