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The Safety Spectrum: Human Lives Must Come Before Faster WiFi
The Safety Spectrum: Human Lives Must Come Before Faster WiFi
An FCC proposal to prioritize connected TVs, toys and toilets over automotive safety will have deadly consequences.
American Trucking Associations
Dec 9, 2019
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Congestion pricing and other toll schemes find little support
Congestion pricing and other toll schemes find little support
Americans want a serious solution to reversing America’s deepening infrastructure crisis.
American Trucking Associations
Sep 12, 2019
Highway Legend
Highway Legend
How a false stat about trucks & road damage is based on 60 years of distortion
American Trucking Associations
Aug 12, 2019
Side underride guards: what we know about them— and what we have yet to learn
Side underride guards: what we know about them— and what we have yet to learn
Smart safety policy must be guided by sound data.
American Trucking Associations
Jul 11, 2019
Beijing is building roads. America should take notice.
Beijing is building roads. America should take notice.
There’s growing consensus among national security experts that China now poses the greatest, long-term strategic threat to United States…
American Trucking Associations
May 9, 2019
America’s Growing Infrastructure Crisis
America’s Growing Infrastructure Crisis
This is America in 2019.
American Trucking Associations
Apr 4, 2019
Setting the Record Straight: ATA’s Position on Hours of Service
By Chris Spear, President and CEO of ATA
American Trucking Associations
Jun 11, 2018
Checking in with our partners across the pond
Checking in with our partners across the pond
As the forces of globalization connect nations and bind economies around the world, goods are moving across this planet faster, further and…
American Trucking Associations
May 30, 2018
The Denham Amendment, FAA Reauthorization, and the Constitution
The Denham Amendment, FAA Reauthorization, and the Constitution
“Congress shall have the power…to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
American Trucking Associations
Apr 25, 2018
A New Tax Day
A New Tax Day
This week marked the first “Tax Day” since comprehensive tax reform was passed into law. American Trucking Associations championed the Tax…
American Trucking Associations
Apr 19, 2018
Reagan Was Right on How to Fund Infrastructure
Reagan Was Right on How to Fund Infrastructure
Take a second and listen to what Ronald Reagan had to say about the federal fuel user fee — his solution to maintaining America’s roads and…
American Trucking Associations
Feb 1, 2018
Tax Reform Delivers for Trucking and the American Economy
Tax Reform Delivers for Trucking and the American Economy
By Chris Spear, President and CEO of American Trucking Associations
American Trucking Associations
Jan 18, 2018
Cutting Bad Regs that Slow Our Economy
Cutting Bad Regs that Slow Our Economy
This week, member companies of American Trucking Associations were honored to be hosted at the White House to represent the trucking…
American Trucking Associations
Dec 15, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices: Separating Fact from Fiction
Electronic Logging Devices: Separating Fact from Fiction
There has been some hullabaloo from the anti-ELD crowd as the Dec. 18 implementation date draws near. That noise is a last-ditch effort to…
American Trucking Associations
Oct 6, 2017
Why automated vehicle technology holds enormous potential — for truckers and the motoring public
Why automated vehicle technology holds enormous potential — for truckers and the motoring public
ATA President and CEO testified before a Senate committee yesterday on the potential of automated truck safety technology, as the committee…
American Trucking Associations
Sep 14, 2017
Trucking Executives Visit White House to Talk About Small Business Challenges
Trucking Executives Visit White House to Talk About Small Business Challenges
WASHINGTON — Representatives of the trucking industry met with President Donald Trump and his administration as part of an event marking…
American Trucking Associations
Aug 4, 2017
Making a Moment with the President
Making a Moment with the President
By John Lex America’s Road Team Captain Professional Driver for Walmart Transportation
American Trucking Associations
Mar 31, 2017
Health Care Reform Will Deliver What Small Businesses Need
By Chris Spear President and CEO American Trucking Associations
American Trucking Associations
Mar 23, 2017
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