TCA Still Searching for New President as Members Prepare for Annual Meeting

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he Truckload Carriers Association was still pursuing its search last week for a new president, even as TCA officials said they expected to host more than 1,200 carrier executives, spouses and supplier representatives at their annual meeting March 14-17 in Hawaii.

“The group, which represents about 450 carriers from the industry’s truckload sector — including most of those listed in the Transport Topics 100 breakdown of the largest trucking firms — said its members would hear comments from Annette Sandberg, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

She was scheduled to speak March 15 on new driver hours-of-service rules, driver background security checks, highway funding and a recent report from the Department of Transportation’s inspector general that was critical of the agency’s SafeStat safety database.



The search for a new president to head the association appeared to be “back to square one,” Nancy O’Liddy, TCA’s director of public affairs, told Transport Topics March 3.

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