My only contact with Arkansas is having to take IH 30 & 40 across the state to get from Texarkana to Memphis about once a year. They do not make a good impression but I am well aware that they do not represent the state. So, when I think of Arkansas I think of a straight stretch of highway where my time is spent avoiding 18-wheel trucks who will invariably pull out into the right hand lane to pass another truck, backing up faster traffic, because they take several miles to accomplish this by refusing to go more than a couple of mph faster than the slower truck.
That and constant vigilance for speed traps set up by police in many of the smaller towns that are linked by the highways. This month, just outside of Lonoke I saw eight (8) police cars within a two mile stretch thinning the herd by pulling people over for speeding. Three of them were lined up, waiting, side by side at a crossing in the highway crossing. They were well hidden by trees and I can imagine them peeling off one after the other in formation. They trap the Eastbound traffic, pull into the next crossing and wait to trap the Westbound then return to their original crossing and repeat the cycle until they get bored I guess.