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December 8, 2000 9:30 AM, EST

A group representing most of the nation’s car haulers has ended its 65-year affiliation with American Trucking Associations.

The National Automobile Transporters Association’s board of direction reached its decision during a Dec. 5 conference call, President Robert P. Farrell said. Farrell said the decision was based on the desire to keep “the NATA family intact” rather than accept the requirements of the ATA restructuring plan adopted in 1998.

Four of NATA’s 18 corporate members are not members of ATA and would have been forced out of NATA under terms of the ATA affiliation agreement, Farrell said.

A spokesman for ATA declined to comment on NATA, saying only, “It’s their decision.”

For the full story, see the Dec. 11 print edition of Transport Topics. .