Labor
Materials from ATA Member-Only Card Check Webinar Available for Download

To help inform ATA members on the potential impact of card check on the trucking industry, ways to mitigate union organizing and what members can do to assist in defeating the card check bill, ATA host a two-hour webinar on this important industry issue on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Article Continued...

ATA Members: Click the "Article Continued" link above to login and download materials from the webinar. A link to the complete Webinar will be available Dec. 18.

 Hazardous Materials
ATA Files Comments on Proposed Revisions to Hazardous Materials Security Plan Requirements

On Nov. 3, 2008, ATA filed comments with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, supporting the adoption of a risk-based approach to hazardous materials transportation security by narrowing the list of hazardous materials that trigger the regulatory requirement to develop and maintain a written security plan.  Article Continued...

 Tax & Registration

Federal Excise Tax on Idle Reduction Devices Eliminated

 

With the issuance of the 2006 IRS ruling that purchasers of Auxiliary Power Units are liable for the federal excise tax on this equipment if installed within six months of placing a tractor into service, the ATA Legislative Office began two years of extensive meetings with the House and Senate to work to eliminate this tax. Article Continued...
  		 

 Port Litigation

ATA v. Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

ATA, with the support of its Intermodal Conference, has been fighting efforts by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reregulate the sector of the trucking industry that serves the ports. ATA filed suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to challenge specific concession requirements that the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports included in their Clean Trucks Program, which the Ports began implementing on Oct. 1, 2008. Article Continued...
 

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ATA v. Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
ATA, with the support of its Intermodal Conference (IMCC), has been fighting efforts by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reregulate the sector of the trucking industry that serves the ports.