ATA President Sees Better Days Ahead

Graves Seeks to Build Political Alliances, Improve Trucking’s Image

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves, reflecting on his first nine months as head of the trucking federation, said business conditions are improving and he’s optimistic about the future of ATA and the industry.

Graves is also working on implementing changes in driver hours-of-service rules that go into effect in January, and is finding ways to build political alliances intended to benefit trucking.

“We’re starting to see positive developments,” the former Kansas governor said in a recent interview as he prepared for the 2003 ATA Management Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio.

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