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The amazing response to American Trucking Associations’ Summit on Natural Gas in Trucking reaffirms just how interested the industry is in finding a cheaper, dependable alternative fuel source.

Following is an ATA Summit on Natural Gas in Trucking agenda: Wednesday Registration kicks off from 4 - 7 p.m. and ATA’s welcome reception is from 5:30 - 7 p.m.. Thursday Continental breakfast 7:30 - 8:15 a.m,, with ATA Chairman Michael Card’s opening remarks from 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Session I: Natural Gas 101: A Primer, 8:30– 9 a.m., will be followed by Session II: Fueling the Nation’s Energy Needs, 9 – 10 a.m. Session III: Infrastructure Hurdles, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., will be followed by lunch. Session IV, The Transformation of America’s Energy Future, featuring Andrew Littlefair, CEO, Clean Energy, and  T. Boone Pickens, Chairman, BP Capital Management, 12:30 – 1:15 p.m.

LAS VEGAS — American Trucking Associations’ directors told federal officials that any regulations on sleep disorder screenings should be developed through the formal rulemaking process and not through an informal procedure.

LAS VEGAS — Mobile fleet software provider XRS Corp. said its Turnpike platform is now running on American Trucking Associations’ Interstate One truck, the first time that the educational tractor-trailer will use an electronic log.

LAS VEGAS — Members of American Trucking Associations elected a new slate of officers as ATA’s Management Conference & Exhibition wrapped up here Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS — “I am so proud to be in the trucking industry,” outgoing ATA “First Lady” Jan England said at the Annual Spouse Business Meeting at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition.