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American Trucking Associations

Type: Organization
Name: American Trucking Associations
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Atlanta-based Road Safe America is holding its Drive Safer Sunday on Nov. 29, 2009, an annual observance aimed at saving lives and cutting injuries on the year's busiest traffic day. Road Safe America was launched by Stephen Owings and his wife Susan ... [Trucking Info - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor It appears unlikely that the Senate will complete work on its version of a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions this year, despite pressure from the international community for the U.S. to address the issue ... [Trucking Info - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Two studies released Thursday claim that increasing tractor-trailers’ capacity to haul more goods will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The American Transportation Research Institute, the research arm of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), said a ... [American Shipper - 16 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Those of us privileged enough to have reached a certain age with long-term memory intact will recall the decades of struggle by freight-transportation interests to have their voices heard in the corridors of power. How many times have shippers and carriers ... [Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 4 Documents
Requiring tank trucks to purge excess fuel from the external product piping, or wetlines, will not improve the safe transport of flammable liquids and is dangerous to technicians that install the purging technology, American Trucking Associations (ATA) ... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents
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ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) commends the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Cargo Office for its long-term efforts to develop security programs for the ground transportation ... [Earthtimes.org - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents
Boston did not have the authority to route trucks carrying hazardous materials around the city, says the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in a ruling published Monday. In 2006, Mayor Thomas Menino's administration halted all daytime permits ... [Trucking Info - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)
AM Buy a Digital Copy of Transport TopicsNatural gas is not a viable alternative fuel for most longhaul trucking operations, but it could be an acceptable alternative fuel for some shorthaul carriers, American Trucking Associations told the Senate Energy ... [Transport Topics - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)
In a written submission to the Senate Energy Committee, American Trucking Associations assert that natural gas (CNG or LNG) is not a viable alternative fuel for most long-haul US trucking operations, ...To continue reading sign up or take a free tria ... [Automotive World - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents
America's Road Team Captains Provide Life Saving AdviceARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This Thanksgiving, a record 40 million motorists are expected to take to the road. Additional motorists and winter road conditions can lead to dangerous ... [Houston Chronicle - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 3 Documents
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Con-way Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW), announced today that - for the third year in a row - it has won first place in its competition class in the 2009 American Trucking ... [Layover.com - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 3 Documents
Operation Interdependence and the national highway safety program Share the Road have managed to deliver leftover non-perishable items for care packages for U.S. soldiers serving overseas. This weekend, Share the Road drivers hauled the donated items ... [Trucking Info - 10/28/2009]

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...in an interstate traffic jam, was crushed from behind by a tractor-trailer on cruise control going 7 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. "The death of almost 40,000 people a year in more than 6 million highway crashes in America is an unchecked epidemic in this country" said Stephen Owings. The American Trucking Associations joins Road Safe America in supporting this observance...
...But the federal government must approve hazmat routes, and Boston never consulted the Department of Transportation about it. The decision says, "This de facto modification to the city's routing designation . . . serves to shift the risk associated with that transportation to neighboring jurisdictions by forcing hazardous material motor carriers to use alternative routes bypassing the city of Boston." The ruling is the result of a challenge by the American Trucking Associations...
...equipment is simply not justified,' said Windsor during a field hearing on H R 4019, the Hazardous Material Transportation Safety Act of 2009. "Government statistics indicate that the risk of a fatal wetlines incident is approximately 1 in 30,000,000. ... In fact, the odds of being struck by lightning during your lifetime are 6,000 times greater than the odds of being killed in a wetlines incident" said Windsor...

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Studies: Bigger trucks benefit environment [American Shipper - 16 hours ago]
Middle ground in truck weight debate? [American Shipper - 17 hours ago]
Notes From NIT League II: On Transport Policy, ... [Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies - 11/19/2009]
Business of Green: Storm Over the Chamber [New York Times - 11/19/2009]
Cap-and-Trade Bill Slows in Senate [Trucking Info - 11/19/2009]
Pressure Grows to Prohibit Flammables in Tanker... [Trucking Info - 11/19/2009]
Annual Drive Safer Sunday Set For Nov. 29 [Trucking Info - 11/19/2009]
Professional Drivers Offer Highway Safety Tips ... [Houston Chronicle - 11/18/2009]
US: Natural gas ‘not viable’ for ... [Automotive World - 11/18/2009]
Installing CHP inspection facility at Long Beac... [Land Line Magazine - 11/18/2009]
ATA Commends TSA for Improving Security in Grou... [Earthtimes.org - 11/17/2009]
ATA Commends TSA for Improving Security in Grou... [Business Technology - 11/17/2009]
ATA Commends TSA for Improving Security in Grou... [Auto & Transportation - 11/17/2009]
Sitton Motor Lines to Close Doors [Transport Topics - 11/17/2009]
FMCSA: Boston Wrong to Reroute Hazmat Trucks [Trucking Info - 11/17/2009]
Feds overturn Boston hazmat ban [ETrucker - 11/17/2009]
ATA Says Natural Gas Not Viable for Longhaul [Transport Topics - 11/17/2009]
Wetlines Retrofit Requirement Unnecessary and D... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 11/16/2009]
Wetlines Proposal Unnecessary, Dangerous, ATA&#... [Transport Topics - 11/16/2009]
Wetlines Retrofit Requirement Unnecessary and D... [Street Insider - 11/16/2009]
Wetlines Retrofit Requirement Unnecessary and D... [Auto & Transportation - 11/16/2009]
ABF Named on Selling Power Magazine's 2009 'Bes... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - 11/13/2009]
ATA: NRDCs Distorted Attacks Ignore Long Beach ... [Street Insider - 11/12/2009]
Letter says New York, Newark steering wrong way [American Shipper - 11/12/2009]
SPECIAL REPORT- Rather report nails the issues;... [Land Line Magazine - 11/12/2009]
Valvoline, Tiwi Team Up for Fuel Savings [Trucking Info - 11/11/2009]
First International Lonestar Harley edition [ETrucker - 11/10/2009]
Driver Appreciation Week Salutes Professionals [Transport Topics - 11/10/2009]
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NYT: US Chamber Has Not Expressed Support for A... [Switchboard, from NRDC - 11/19/2009]
John Broder has an illuminating story in today's New York Times "Storm Over the Chamber" discussing the US Chamber of Commerce's climate crisis and how Mr. ...
James Boyce: Chamber Me This. [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/10/2009]
The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's recent actions on two of the most important issues facing our country, healthcare reform and climate change, are a complete ...
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang: Industry Lobb... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/08/2009]
This blog was authored by our colleague Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety Anne Ferro, a trucking industry lobbyist should ...
Semi-Dangerous? Truckers group says texting whi... [Autoblog - 09/29/2009]
Filed under: Truck, Government/Legal, Safety Research shows that a driver can be as much as 23 times more likely to get into an accident if he or she is texting ...
Will Anti-Tax Sentiment Stall Reform? [Transportation Experts - 09/28/2009]
President Obama, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar have all rejected the idea of ...
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