Transportation Transition Team Includes Truckers

Several top trucking officials have been appointed to President-elect Bush’s transportation transition team and will help establish the direction the Department of Transportation takes under the new administration.

he trucking officials are American Trucking Associations Chairman Duane W. Acklie, chairman of Crete Carrier Corp.; ATA President Walter B. McCormick Jr.; and Arnold F. Wellman, vice president for public affairs at United Parcel Service (UPS).

In all, there are 52 team members, encompassing representatives from the railroads, automobile industry, maritime industry, airline industry and state governments, in addition to the trucking industry.

Included are three former secretaries of transportation: Samuel Skinner, currently president of USFreightways Corp. (USFC), and James H. Burnley IV and William T. Coleman Jr.

Among other members are Edward R. Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads; Richard K. Davidson, chairman of Union Pacific Railroad (UNP); John W. Snow, chairman of CSX Corp. (CSX); Thomas D. Larson, former federal highway administrator; Diane Steed, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and Carol Hallett president of the Air Transport Association of America.

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