Oregon’s Meredith Goes National

Michael A. Meredith, the long-time president of the Oregon Trucking Assns., has joined American Trucking Associations to help guide and strengthen ATA’s relationship with the state associations in the next century.

Mr. Meredith will be vice president of state relations. He fills the position vacated when Daniel F. McCormack became senior vice president and chief of staff at ATA.

The job has added responsibilities, due to ATA’s reorganization of how it deals with its state trucking affiliates.

“We’re bringing all of the state affairs functions under one umbrella organization within ATA, which will include state laws and some of the field offices we have providing assistance to the state trucking associations,” said Paul Stalknecht, senior vice president of federation relations for ATA. “Mike will be assisting me in strengthening the federation consistent with the strong recommendations of the Wren committee.”

As vice president of state relations, Mr. Meredith will head up a new state affairs group, which will be responsible for handling state legal and legislative issues and coordinating support to the state organizations.

The new structure is one of the things that attracted Mr. Meredith to the job.

ATA is going through a restructuring and a re-analysis of what it stands for,” he said. “Change is always a challenge and I want to be a part of that.”

Mr. Meredith was president of the Oregon Trucking Assns. for 20 years, during which time its budget rose from $96,000 to over $1 million a year and the staff increased from three to 13 people.