ATA News Updates

Special Coverage, Business

ATA Technology Conference to Feature Autonomous Vehicle Experts

ORLANDO, Fla. — American Trucking Associations announced that the leader of Google Inc.’s driverless car project, along with two other experts in the field of autonomous vehicles, will give keynote addresses at the group’s December conference on trucking technology.

October 20, 2013
Special Coverage, Business

First LEAD ATA Class Meets

ORLANDO, Fla. — The inaugural 17-member class of American Trucking Associations’ LEAD ATA program met for the first time Oct. 19 during the group’s Management Conference & Exhibition, ATA said.

October 20, 2013
Business, Fuel

Comdata Launches Updated Fuel Payment Software

Comdata Corp. has launched an updated version of its FleetAdvance fuel payment software that allows for increased data analysis.

October 10, 2013
Business

Graves: Government Shutdown Could Hurt Trucking

The shutdown of the federal government could harm the economy, which in turn would hurt the trucking industry, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said.

October 4, 2013
Business

Agency Resubmits Plan to Cut Quarterly Reports

The federal government is trying once again to eliminate the requirement that nearly all trucking companies submit quarterly financial data to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, calling the requirement “outdated” and unnecessary.

June 3, 2013
Editorial, Business

Editorial: Cultivating Leadership

Many people, exalted and humble, rich and poor, operating in arenas ranging from war to medicine, from politics to poetry, have offered their views on leadership — what it is, what it requires, how it works.

May 13, 2013
Business

ATA Launches Program for Young Trucking Executives

American Trucking Associations said Monday it has launched a program for young trucking executives to prepare them for future leadership.

May 6, 2013
Business

ATA Hires Jeffrey Mason as Senior VP of Image and Communications

American Trucking Associations said it has hired Jeffrey Mason as senior vice president of image and communications, a newly created position.

April 15, 2013
Perspective, Business

Opinion: Defending the American Dream

What happens when you have state budgets that are straining to come in balance and union representation that continues its long-trending downward slope as measured by percentage of workers covered? Unfortunately, the answer is an attempt to radically transform the trucking industry and an assault on the American dream.

March 4, 2013
Business, Fuel

DEF Pump Price Holds at $2.79 a Gallon

The retail price of diesel exhaust fluid at U.S. truck stops held at $2.79 a gallon in January from the previous month, Integer Research Ltd. reported.

February 7, 2013