American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Good stuff. Trucks Bring It!
American Trucking Associations announced it was committing on behalf of the trucking industry and its members to hire 100,000 veterans as part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring 500,000 Heroes campaign.
American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.5 percent in October, following a revised decline of 0.8 percent during the previous month.
The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies between Sept. 20-24, surveyed 800 registered voters on their attitudes about politics, the trucking industry and the state of infrastructure.
American Trucking Associations chief economist Bob Costello told the annual ATA Management Conference & Exhibition that freight volumes in the trucking industry continue to grow, but the looming driver shortage could hold back industry growth.
American Trucking Associations-led coalition of transportation trade groups urged that the scores produced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability fleet monitoring system be removed from the agency’s...
The investigation report of the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is just the latest to show significant problems with the FMCSA's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, American Trucking Associations said.
"ATA hopes the administration will set forth a path that is both based on the best science and research available and economically achievable," said Bill Graves president and CEO of ATA.
The Certified VMRS Specialist Program provides current VMRS users a means of demonstrating their expertise and proficiency. It also encourages others to increase their knowledge and use of VMRS.
ATA said the safety recommendations emphasize the need for the need for accelerate efforts to mandate electronic logging devices in commercial trucks and to improve its CSA fleet safety monitoring and measurement system.
American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said the industry continues to play a central role in the U.S. economy, despite the myriad of challenges facing the industry and called on trucking to embrace looming changes.
American Trucking Associations leaders offered their congratulations to the winners of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Excellence Awards
In this whitepaper, American Trucking Associations sets the record straight about the involvement of fatigue in large truck crashes, highlighting how anti-trucking industry interest groups wildly exaggerate its role in crashes.
American Trucking Associations announced the winners of the sixth annual Mike Russell "Good Stuff" Trucking Image Awards, honoring three organizations for their efforts to generate positive awareness of the trucking industry's essential role in the...
