McCormick: ATA Prepared for Hours Fight

ARLINGTON, Va. — At a time when the industry faces multiple challenges, American Trucking Associations is keeping its promise to provide “best in class” advocacy to its members, the group’s leadership said.

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The association is fighting proposals by the Department of Transportation to impose new limits on the amount of time drivers can work, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants to issue regulations designed to reduce repetitive stress injuries and the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to further reduce diesel emissions.

“There has never been a time when Washington was more central to the future of our business,” ATA President Walter B. McCormick Jr. said in a June 22 speech at ATA’s Summer Leadership Meeting.

“Not since deregulation has the federal government proposed such fundamental changes to trucking operations, and perhaps never has there been a need to wage battle on so many fronts simultaneously,” he added.

McCormick attributed the flurry of regulatory activity to the Clinton administration’s desire to tidy up loose ends before leaving office in January. “The rules they want to finalize could impact trucking for decades to come.”

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