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PHILADELPHIA — Chris Grundler, the Environmental Protection Agency official behind the Phase 2 greenhouse-gas proposal, is passionate about reducing vehicle emissions but quick to point out his commitment to data, evidence and engineering as the foundation for writing regulations.

PHILADELPHIA — Dave Osiecki, American Trucking Associations’ chief of national advocacy, is optimistic that regulations the industry has criticized over the years would be reformed if Congress advances key bills this year.

PHILADELPHIA — Its sluggishness aside, the U.S. economy is now, and will remain well into 2016, the world’s strongest producer and trucking will benefit from that, two economists said as part of their forecasts here.    

A team of America’s Road Team Captains took an average of 15,943 steps per day in a two-day span to win the American Trucking Associations Healthy Trucker Challenge at the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For Pat Thomas, senior vice president of state government affairs at UPS Inc. and the new chairman of American Trucking Associations, Big Brown’s gargantuan hub here epitomizes freight connectivity.

PHILADELPHIA — For his first act as the new chairman of American Trucking Associations, Pat Thomas urged Congress to pass a multiyear highway bill that would address the industry’s safety and infrastructure funding concerns.

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Graves, president of American Trucking Associations, has informed the federation that he will step down at the end of 2016, when his current contract expires.

PHILADELPHIA — A majority of Americans have a favorable view of the trucking industry and say that, in car-truck accidents, the motorist is at fault most of the time.