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Higher profit from dedicated truckload business helped J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. to eke out a 1.5% second-quarter net income increase to $105.1 million, or 92 cents per share, but weaker than expected intermodal unit performance and other factors led the company to lower its 2016 earnings expectations.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., based out of Lowell, Arkansas, has opened two new sales branches in San Antonio and Portland, Maine.

SAN ANTONIO — Shelley Simpson, chief marketing officer of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, was named winner of the 2016 Distinguished Woman in Logistics award.

MercuryGate International has countersued J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. for $5 million as part of a disagreement over the effectiveness of an information technology system MercuryGate sold the motor carrier to support its brokerage unit.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced second-quarter net income rose 11% to $103.4 million, or 88 cents per share, spurred by rate increases.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. has been selected to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a stock market index based on the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ first-quarter income jumped to $91.9 million, or 78 cents per share, from $68.7 million, or 58 cents, a year ago.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ net income increased in the third quarter to $102.4 million, or 87 cents per share, from $89.5 million, or 75 cents per share.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ net income slipped 6% in the first quarter to $68.7 million, or 58 cents per share, from $73.3 million, or 61 cents per share, due to winter weather that raised costs and reduced revenue growth.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. said it is raising its dividend for shareholders by 33% to 20 cents per share.