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Trucking associations support efforts to reduce idling

The American Trucking Associations and several of its affiliates support the Diesel Idle Reduction Campaign headed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), in partnership with the District Department of the Environment, District Department of Transportation and Maryland Department of the Environment...

Share the Road attends West Virginia highway safety program rollout

Share the Road was in West Virginia recently, serving as the rally point for a coalition of safety partners seeking to make highways safer in the state. The Share the Road tractor-trailer served as a symbol of raising awareness of the need for passenger occupancy vehicles and commercial motor vehicles to operate safely with one another...

ATA hails Clean Trucks
Program of NY/NJ port

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) congratulated the leadership of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for developing a Clean Trucks Program that will improve air quality at the port. The NY/NJ plan focuses on reducing truck pollution through retirement of older diesel engines and not on unrelated and unnecessary requirements or banning owner-operator truck drivers from hauling freight at the port...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
surges 3.1% in January

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index jumped 3.1% in January 2010 following a revised 1.3% increase in December 2009...

ATA endorses Vigillo’s
CSA 2010 Scorecard

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has announced its endorsement of Vigillo LLC’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010 Scorecard as an effective program to help large and small trucking companies manage their responsibilities under the current CSA 2010 regulations...

New ATA committee
to promote RPs

New Service Provider Committee (SPC) formed by the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) of the American Trucking Associations Inc (ATA) will promote the creation of maintenance recommended practices (RP)...

ATA: LA officials'
comments misleading

City and other public officials involved with the Port of Los Angeles CA are misleading the public and press about the purpose and results of a lawsuit filed by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), according to ATA...

Truck tonnage
higher in February

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index edged 1.7 percent higher in February 2009, marking the second consecutive month-to-month increase...

ATA reorganizes 2 councils

The Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council and the Security Council of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) have reorganized to form the Supply Chain Security & Loss Prevention Council and the Safety Management Council...

ATA port concession lawsuit moves to District Court

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) legal challenge to Los Angeles and Long Beach ports concession plans has been remanded to a US District Court...

ATA freight forecast
reaches to 2020

The US Freight Transportation Forecast to 2020 is now available from the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

ATA files motion
in HOS legal challenge

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has filed a motion to intervene in response to the latest challenge to the hours-of-service (HOS) rules...

ATA: HOS keeps
trucks, motorists safe

Trucks on the nation’s highways are safer now, while operating under federal hours of service (HOS) regulations that debuted in 2004, than they have ever been, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

ATA Road Team delivers goods
for Operation Interdependence

Two Captains of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) America's Road Team rolled up right on time to the Operation Interdependence office in Houston TX March 7, delivering pallets of supplies that eventually would make their way to troops serving in the Mideast and other out-of-the-way assignments...

Dual driver checks
to get SBA review

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is applauding the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) effort to review a requirement for duplicative background checks for commercial truck drivers...

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