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Prasad Sharma has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel of American Trucking Associations, ATA said Monday.

Robert Digges Jr., vice president and chief counsel for American Trucking Associations and a top attorney for ATA’s Litigation Center, is retiring from his post effective Jan. 27, ATA announced last week.

A federal judge rejected a request by Navistar Inc. to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to recall all 2010 trucks with selective catalytic reduction engines.

With membership up, the grip of recession loosening and a healthier if leaner budget, American Trucking Associations ends 2011 reflective of the carriers that make up its ranks, ATA President Bill Graves said.

American Trucking Associations has named Karla Hulett, a tax expert, accountant and business and technology consultant, as its new chief financial officer.

U.S. highway deaths fell to the lowest level in 2010 since 1949, but truck-related fatalities rose for the first time since 2005, the Department of Transportation said Thursday.

American Trucking Associations has hired Karla Hulett as its new chief financial officer.

American Trucking Associations said it has reached agreement on a three-year contract extension with Bill Graves, which will keep him president of the federation through 2014.

SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it was simply a case of a father’s love of trucking rubbing off on his young son as he grew up in a tiny town about an hour’s drive north of the sprawling C.R. England headquarters here.

It is a distinct honor to be able to represent America’s motor carriers and the employees and independent contractors working on behalf of those companies.   I have appreciated the leadership that has been provided by Barbara Windsor, Tommy Hodges and all the fine chairmen who have preceded them.