ATA to Manage Distribution & LTL Carriers Association

American Trucking Associations said Thursday it has assumed management of the Distribution & LTL Carriers Association, which represents for-hire trucking companies engaged in less-than-truckload freight shipments and warehousing.

Under an agreement signed by ATA President Bill Graves and DLTLCA Chairman Glen Merkel, ATA will provide day-to-day management of the 70-member association, effective June 1.

Robert Farrell, executive director of ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference, will serve as president of the Kansas City, Mo.-based association, which will continue to operate as an independent organization.

“This agreement has special significance for me because my family business, Graves Truck Line, was a less-than-truckload carrier,” Graves said at the signing agreement held at ATA’s Arlington, Va., headquarters.

The Distribution & LTL Carriers Association was formed in 1996 through the consolidation of the Regional and Distribution Carriers Conference and Regular Common Carrier Conference, both of which were founded to promote the interests and profitability of their trucking company members.