President's Scheduled Briefing With ATA Board To Highlight Federation’s Leadership Meeting

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>American Trucking Associations’ board of directors is scheduled to get a briefing from President Bush on economic and national security issues when it meets in Washington next week, ATA said Jan. 30.

The White House visit will highlight ATA’s winter leadership meeting, the first for Bill Graves, who assumed office as president of the federation Jan. 15, succeeding William J. Canary.

Security is set to be one of the major topics at the Feb. 9-11 meeting. In addition to the briefing from Bush, ATA executives are expected to hear a top official of the Transportation Security Administration and a Treasury official.

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