AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS

Truck-involved crash fatalities declined 12 percent in 2008, NHTSA reported. The total number of truck-involved fatalities in 2008 reached their lowest level since DOT began keeping truck-involved fatality records in 1975. ( Article Continued... )

ATA applauds the leaders of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Highways and Transit Subcommittee for their efforts to develop a comprehensive transportation and infrastructure plan for the future. ( Article Continued... )

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently announced that safety belt use by drivers of medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles increased to 72 percent in 2008. ( Article Continued... )

Safety conditions on our nation’s highways continued improving last year with fatalities decreasing by 9.1 percent. ( Article Continued... )

In 1935, my father and grandfather started Graves Truck Line in Salina. ( Article Continued... )

ATA unveiled a bold new 18-point highway safety agenda June 9 on Capitol Hill. The newly adopted safety policies address commercial and passenger vehicle driver performance, safer vehicles and equipment, and motor carrier performance. ( Article Continued... )

Since the American Trucking Associations (ATA) was founded in 1933, safety has been an integral part of our operations. ( Article Continued... )

Virginia Department of Transportation’s plan to close 25 safety rest areas on the Interstate Highway System poses a significant safety risk to all motorists. ( Article Continued... )

ATA supports separate pieces of legislation introduced in the Senate that would protect our nation’s highways and roads from privatization and additional tolling. These schemes are nothing more than quick fixes for state transportation budget shortfalls. ( Article Continued... )

ATA strongly supports proposed legislation (H.R. 1799) that will allow states to authorize the operation of more efficient commercial trucks, resulting in safer highways, cleaner air and less costly freight transportation. ( Article Continued... )

ATA supports “Jason’s Law,” legislation in Congress that would implement a pilot program to address shortages in safe parking for commercial motor vehicles on the National Highway System. ( Article Continued... )

Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation on April 24 to limit incentives for private investors leasing roads or highways through public-private-partnerships, and reduce expensive federal subsidies for highway priv ( Article Continued... )

ATA applauds Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., for introducing legislation on April 22 that facilitates accelerated development and deployment of advanced safety systems for commercial vehicles through tax credits. ( Article Continued... )

Having served as Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and as Highway Safety Representative to two governors, I can appreciate the difficult choices regarding highway spending that Virginia’s government must make during these tough eco ( Article Continued... )

As debate on the 2010 budget begins, President Obama's $3.55 trillion proposal has received criticism from Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. The President suggests $72.5 billion for the Department of Transportation. ( Article Continued... )

A proposal by the Obama Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would eliminate the Highway Trust Fund “firewall” and allow the diversion of dedicated highway user fees from critical repair and expansion projects. ( Article Continued... )

Drug and alcohol abuse affects all levels of society and costs the American public more than $181 million annually. ( Article Continued... )

My dad started Graves Truck Lines, with his dad, in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression. It was their response to the “What now?” that followed the loss of the family farm. ( Article Continued... )

People often ask me how it is that, as a farmer, I stumbled into trucking. ( Article Continued... )

As we gather in New Orleans for our 2008 MC&E, it’s hard not to think back to the images of the Crescent City in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. ( Article Continued... )

ATA recently announced a six-point set of initiatives that will significantly reduce the industry’s fuel consumption and carbon footprint. ( Article Continued... )

Everyone in North America is feeling the pinch at the pump and at the supermarket checkout as skyrocketing fuel prices drive up the cost of everyday living. ( Article Continued... )

While we had all heard of the issue of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, it was Al Gore who brought home the inconvenient truth to many of us in the trucking industry back in 2006: an urgent climate crisis demands global action now. ( Article Continued... )